Actually, a whistleblower did write a letter exposing the poor standards of Perugia Forensics.
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The Perugian Crime: Full of Poison for the Police
Still news at the resumption of the final hearing session.
Anonymous letter sent to the court, to the experts, and to our newspaper.
PERUGIA September 22, 2011
The prosecution turns to the police in the Meredith case
The writing contains, in substance, a polemical and acidic reply to the arguments of the letter that the director of police, Director Piero Angeloni, sent to the president of the Appeal Court of Assizes, Claudio Pratillo Hellmann, in order to defend the good name and the professional status of the Italian forensic police. The aspects that concern the trial more than a little are those in which the anonymous person maintains that the suburban forensic police “are not supplied with equipment that is the norm” and that the refrigerator containers in use “are those for food.”
“Security and protection devices are not acquired for lack of funds. The coverall? It is used only when there is the video camera. Masks and head covers? They are worn only in the presence of experts and lawyers. The gloves? There is no need to waster them and the recommendations are to use them to the end and to not break them.”
Among the 17 points made there are those in which it is affirmed “that the refrigeration of samples is not assured, nor tracked,” that the “cleaning of instruments is superficial; for the DNA the norm is to perform it with alcohol and never to verify with control blanks”; that “when the biological result is not that hoped for, the amplification of the trace is forced for each despite rational scientific indications and one proceeds even when something is not found.
It will be that the result for this as well is always the presence of mixed unknowns?”, the public prosecutors’ consultant showed that during the testing operations, noted that the DNA amplifier was not placed under the fume hood contrary to what is done in the police laboratory. This is not the right place because the possibility is the highest that it can be contaminated if it is put under any fume hood”; that the “forensic police are not supplied with an adequate library and they are not furnished what needed to operate in the various sectors with the possibility to make inquiries on the international guidelines”; that biologic evidence samples are always completely destroyed, without guarantee of the repeatability of the test, the most times possible, as happens in all of the civilized countries in the world”.
A total “I accuse” – many points brought out and compared by the prosecutors- who, however, was entered as pure curiosity really because anonymous. Therefore not reliable, not serious, not scientific.
