A step towards improving workflow practices for volume crime investigations: outcomes of a 90-day trial in South Australia.
The provision of forensic science services in volume crime investigations works most successfully as a partnership between police agencies and external forensic laboratories as opposed to a client/provider model where unlimited demand ignores finite resources. The principles of Lean Six Sigma have b...
| Published in: | Police Practice & Research Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 209 - 222 |
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