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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/warning-over-forensics-service-axe.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Britain's justice system will take a 'backward step' if the Forensic Science Service is closed, experts warned" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-warning-over-forensics-service-axe.jpg" alt="Britain's justice system will take a 'backward step' if the Forensic Science Service is closed, experts warned"/></a></p>
<p>Britain&#8217;s justice system will take a &#8220;backward step&#8221; if the Government closes its Forensic Science Service, experts have warned.</p>
<p>Winding up the service &#8211; which has helped snare killers such as Soham murderer Ian Huntley and Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright &#8211; would see the country lose its position as world leader in crime-scene investigation, they suggest.</p>
<p>And the quality of British justice would suffer because the free market would not provide some more expensive forms of analysis crucial to police investigations, they wrote in a letter to the Times.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Home Office&#8217;s decision to break-up the Forensic Science Service (FSS) has been met with &#8220;disbelief and dismay&#8221; around the world, they claim.</p>
<p>The letter, signed by 33 leading forensic scientists, follows a backlash earlier this month against the planned closure of the service which makes an operating loss of £2 million per month.</p>
<p>It was signed by 33 international forensic scientists, including Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, who pioneered DNA fingerprinting, a technique credited with revolutionising criminal investigation in the 1980s.</p>
<p>Professor Niels Morling, president of the International Society for Forensic Genetics, who coordinated the letter, said the appeal to save the FSS had drawn support from scientists around the world. &#8220;So many of us have benefited from the research, development and education offered by the FSS &#8211; a worldwide network of scientists is grateful to the FSS and to British society,&#8221; he told the paper.</p>
<p>The FSS has been a Government-owned company since 2005 and its investigators have been involved in a series of successful high-profile prosecutions such as that of paedophile Roy Whiting who murdered eight-year-old Sarah Payne in 2000.</p>
<p>In their letter, the scientists claim the service ensured Sir Alec&#8217;s DNA discovery could be transformed into practical crime-scene analysis, now used across the globe. &#8220;These advances paved the way for the introduction of national DNA databases to routinely match crime-scene material to suspects with previous convictions &#8230; The FSS has truly been a leader in European forensic practice as well as research,&#8221; they said. &#8220;There can be no doubt that professional expertise cannot be maintained without continuing research and education,&#8221; they wrote.</p>
<p>According to the Home Office, the FSS is likely to run out of money by January. It is expected to be wound up by March 2012, costing around 1,600 jobs.</p>
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