Postal Inspection Service: Difference between revisions

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service first established a [[crime lab]] in 1940.<ref name="Bell">{{cite book |first=Suzanne |last=Bell |date=2008 |title=Crime and Circumstance: Investigating the History of Forensic Science |location=[[Westport, Connecticut]] |publisher=[[Praeger Publishers|Praeger]] |page=107 |isbn=978-0-31335-386-4}}</ref> Today, the National Forensic Laboratory is located in [[Dulles, Virginia]]<ref name="LabUSPSIS">{{cite web |url=https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/aboutus/lab.aspx |title=Forensic Laboratory Services |website=U.S. Postal Inspection Service |access-date=November 23, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123091437/https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/aboutus/lab.aspx |archive-date=November 23, 2016}}</ref> in a two-story, 44,000-square-foot facility.<ref name="Goudarzi">{{cite web |url=http://www.labmanager.com/research-specific-labs/2012/01/perspective-on-a-forenics-lab |title=Perspective On: A Forensics Lab |first=Sara |last=Goudarzi |date=January 20, 2012 |website=Lab Manager}}</ref> The lab is staffed by forensic scientists and technical experts and consists of four units: the Questioned Documents Unit, the Fingerprint Unit, the Physical Sciences Unit, and the Digital Evidence Unit.<ref name="LabUSPSIS" /> The laboratory is overseen by a laboratory director, and each of the four units is overseen by an assistant laboratory director.<ref name="Goudarzi" /> There are also four satellite offices, located in [[New York City|New York]], [[Chicago]], [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], and [[San Francisco]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Dorothy Moses |last=Schultz |chapter=U.S. Postal Inspection Service |editor1-last=Sullivan |editor1-first=Larry E. |editor2-last=Rosen |editor2-first=Marie Simonetti |date=2005 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement |volume=1 |location=[[Thousand Oaks, California]] |publisher=[[SAGE Publications]] |page=884 |isbn=978-0-76192-649-8}}</ref>