Departments

The Chemistry Section analyzes suspected drugs and fire debris, provides expert testimony, and educates law enforcement.

Examination of firearms and components, bullets and cartridge cases, distance determination tests, toolmarks, serial number restoration, and NIBIN database.

The services of the Forensic Biology discipline are intended to assist the criminal justice system by providing timely scientific analysis of biological evidence.

The Implied Consent Section oversees the state's breath alcohol testing program.

Identification and comparison of fingerprints and AFIS database.

The Division of Forensic Sciences provides a complete service in Forensic Pathology under the authority of the Georgia Death Investigation Act.

Evidence receiving, entry into LIMS, evidence transport, and storage/disposition of evidence.

The Division of Forensic Sciences (DOFS) Toxicology Section provides state and local law enforcement officials and medical examiners with vital information about human biological samples and specifically whether drugs, alcohol or poisons may have played a role in the commission of a crime or a death.

The Trace Evidence section analyzes paint, plastic, hair, fiber, glass, fractured materials, general materials, and gunshot residue.