Blogs

Earlier this month, attorneys from the Environmental Crimes Section of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Division (ENRD) led a course on prosecuting environmental crimes at the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Bangkok, Thailand. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also helped lead the course.

Survivors are at the center of our work at the Office on Violence Against Women and it is their courage, leadership, and vision that drives the commitment to continue to improve efforts to address and prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, and stalking. We observe Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) to take stock of the collective progress we’ve made, strengthen our commitment to advancing our work, and ensure that millions of people who are impacted by abuse from intimate partners every year know that they are not alone and can reach out for help.

On October 27, ICITAP-Mexico graduated a course on “Accreditation of Forensic Laboratories under ISO/IEC 17020:2012 and ISO/IEC 17025:2017.”

On October 25, ICITAP partnered with the Iberoamerican Academy of Criminalistics and Forensic Studies (AICEF) to present a webinar on the synthetic drug epidemic with a focus on forensic chemical analysis delivered in Spanish.

From October 12 to 17, 2023. ICITAP hosted 155 staff and international police delegates representing 23 countries participated in the dynamic annual International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference from October 13 to 18, 2023, in San Diego, California.

On October 10, ICITAP’s Ethical Policing and Development (EPAD) team led an Indonesian National Police delegation from the Human Resource and Psychology Bureau to the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) in Sacramento as one of their stops on their US study tour.

From October 5 to 6, the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Panama (IMELCF) conducted their 14th edition of IMELCF’s International Forensic Sciences Annual Conference.

The CFO Council will hold its next public meeting on November 9, 2023.

On September 28, 2023, ICITAP confirmed the finalization of an upgrade of the Medical Forensic Institute Gene Mapper software.

The Committee on Cross-Agency Collaboration and Innovation Resources Working Group will lead a multi-panel workshop in October.

The Office of Information Policy announces new reporting deadlines and resources.