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Radio 4,08 Dec 2009,40 mins

Cost-cutting in Forensic Science

File on 4 Investigates

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The government's forensic science service is crucial to taclking crime, but is shedding hundreds of jobs and closing half its laboratory facilities in a drive to make the organisation more commercial. Fran Abrams investigates whether or not the aggressive cost-cutting in beginning to hit the way the service operates and consequently undermine justice.

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