Feds Award Over $2M To Police Forensic Departments In Maryland To Help Relieve Backlog

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The national authorities awarded implicit $2 cardinal to 7 constabulary forensic divisions successful Maryland to assistance relieve backlogs of forensic biology and DNA cases, Maryland’s Congressional Democrats announced connected Wednesday.

Here’s a breakdown of wherever the wealth volition go:

$431,315 to the Maryland State Police Forensic Sciences Division successful Pikesville
$260,000 to the Prince George’s County Police Department, Forensic Science Division
$260,000 to the Forensic Biology Unit of the Anne Arundel County Police Department
$401,985 to the Baltimore Police Department Crime Laboratory
$222,597 to the Baltimore County Police Department Crime Laboratory
$250,000 to the State of Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner’s toxicology laboratory successful Crownsville
$260,000 to the Montgomery County Police Crime Laboratory

In a associated statement, U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Reps. Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone said the backing volition assistance support communities safe.

“Every year, thousands of convulsive and non-violent crimes – including murders, rapes and assaults – spell unsolved due to the fact that of the backlog successful processing DNA for investigations,”the lawmakers said. “This national backing volition support communities crossed Maryland harmless by providing section jurisdictions with the indispensable resources to process captious DNA grounds and analyse forensic information much rapidly and accurately.”

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The backing comes from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) astatine the Department of Justice done the BJA DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction (CEBR) program.