Quality Management in Forensic Disciplines- Juniper Publishers

The security challenges that today’s environment is facing on a daily basis are innumerable. In fact, these are setting new standards for objective evidence and appealing certain specific competencies that should be always based on quality management. With the technological advancements made in the past century, forensic disciplines and resources had made a quantum leap in providing and reporting results to various stakeholders and floors which were beneficial and significant to criminal justice systems and also to societies which forensic experts have to be ethically accountable in their end investigations. This brought certain specific opportunities for improvement in various areas. On top of the agenda, quality assurance and quality control in our lines of expertise. Two scenarios that one can write volumes about these significant and ethical matters. However, by opting for these measures one can entertain a quality management system reducing or eventually eradicate errors and misunderstandings. By initiating certain management tools such as six-sigma and Ishikawa diagrams, one would start building a total quality management approach for a sustainable forensic setting. It is high time for forensic departments and institutions to continue its development by achieving certifications from national accredited bodies pertaining to different and significant standards depending on their tests and analysis being done in their premises. This will create an accountable and ethical atmosphere which the main stakeholders will benefit from.

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