Public Accounts committee  They do look at operational files. They review them in order to determine whether the results were appropriate.

Public Accounts committee  Right now there are 129 individuals within the program.

Public Accounts committee  I would say no. The major issue we had was the isolation of DNA from some samples in cases. As Mr. Buckle has indicated, in the 216 cases where there was some concern, 87% had other probative results. We do not always obtain DNA from every case; routinely, within 4% to 6% of our

Public Accounts committee  The quality issues affected, in the first case, the ability of the quality management system to isolate and identify quality problems within the system. Obviously, within the biology program we also have our quality assurance program, which is headed up by the national technical

Justice committee  Yes, it does, because a large part of what we have to do is consult with the clients. We do that through various mechanisms, through client consultation committees, to inform them of the changes we're making and how properly to submit samples to the lab. We also ask their opinion

Justice committee  That is correct. It's not necessarily within the biology directorate; it's within the Forensic Science and Identification Services that we offer that service.

Justice committee  Yes, there is. The training of those officers would be done through the National DNA Data Bank. They have a specific training group that handles those types of information and provides that information to the clients.

Justice committee  The biology project is dealing with the expansion of the biology services. First of all, we're creating a separate directorate, known as biology services. We're looking at creating a third site for analysis in Edmonton, as well as hiring a number of individuals—which would resu