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Scientific Investigation Division (SID)

Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center
1800 Paseo Rancho Castilla
Los Angeles, CA 90032
Phone 323-415-8100
Fax 323-276-1942

Scientific Investigation Division (SID) is responsible for the collection, comparison and interpretation of physical evidence found at crime scenes or collected from suspects and victims. Analysis of various types of evidence may connect a suspect to a crime, associate particular items to a specific source or determine the circumstances surrounding an event.

Police Administrator Yvette Burney is the Commanding Officer of SID.

		About SID

		SID Overview Criminalistics Laboratory Receives National Accreditation

		Technical Laboratory

		About the SID Technical Laboratory Latent Prints Unit Photography Unit Polygraph Unit Electronics Unit

		Criminalistics Laboratory

		Criminalistics Laboratory Receives National Accreditation Questioned Documents Unit Field Investigation Unit Firearm Analysis Unit Narcotics Analysis Unit Serology / DNA Unit Toxicology Unit Trace Analysis Unit Criminalistics Laboratory