A bloodstain room is one of the new features of an Ontario Provincial Police forensic identification services unit that opened Nov. 27 in Thunder Bay.
The 13,500-square-foot building contains a biohazard/chemical laboratory and a bloodstain room for blood spatter examination and other advanced tools to analyze evidence and solve crimes.
“The collection, analysis and storage of evidence is essential to any police investigation,” said OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino in a statement.
The $6.6-million facility is one of five forensic identification units the Ontario government has replaced or upgraded since 2003. An additional eight forensic units will be upgraded as part of an OPP Modernization Project undertaken by Infrastructure Ontario.
Forensic unit members collect evidence at crime scenes and transport it to the unit where it is examined and processed for information such as fingerprints, footwear, tire impressions along with trace elements of blood, hair and fibres.
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