FORENSIC DEVELOPMENT AND CONTRIBUTION OF TAIWAN

Year 2017, Volume: Volume 2 Issue: İssue 1 (1) - 2.İnternational Congress Of Forensic Toxicology, 72 - 72, 16.02.2017

Chang En Pu

Abstract

Taiwan forensic
science laboratory system was started from police department under Ministry of
Interior Affairs in 1945, then the labs under Ministry of Justice was developed
from 1956, and till 1997 the traditionally complete system was developed
including medical examiner system, toxicology, forensic chemistry, forensic
biology, Questioned document examination, Polygraph, Speaker identification,
etc. In 2006, the first Cyber forensic lab was established, by then labs needed
for modern society were all set up. Besides providing forensic services, the
labs also support international training programs accepting foreign students or
sending scientist to give lectures abroad.

In research, for
example the current topic of forensic toxicology is to determine the absence or
presence of new designer drugs and their metabolites in human tissues and
other materials by LC/MS/MS and GC/MS/MS, and characterize the origin of drug
metabolites in urines to distinguish the drug metabolite is from the drug
seizure or not by stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) with GC or
pyrolyzer inlet. According to the well designed SOP more than 120 new designer
drugs and their metabolites in urines or hairs can be detected
simultaneously by LC/MS/MS and GC/MS/MS.

There are four main forensic lab systems in this country, providing
internationally certified (ISO17025) forensic reports estimated 40,000 a year
to the judicial system, also trying the best to provide anticrime information
from routine forensic analysis and planned research project

Keywords

FORENSIC DEVELOPMENT AND CONTRIBUTION OF TAIWAN

References

• Chang En PU Director of Forensic Science Division, the Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice, Taiwan