На одного фахівця — 100 експертиз. У МВС розповіли про навантаження на центри, де ідентифікують тіла
Ruslan Abbasov, Deputy Director of the State Forensic Science Centre, spoke about this in an interview with hromadske.
“On average today, there are around 100 examinations [in progress] per expert… Over the past year, our institutions received over 18,000 packages containing bodies. And on average, twice or three times as many samples from them were examined… That is a huge number,” he noted.
The official says that whilst there were 150 experts at the NECC in 2022, there are now over 500. We started with nine laboratories, and now there are 22. Two more — in the Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions — will soon be fully operational, as they are currently small laboratories that examine samples from living people exclusively.
As of today, around 3,000 samples of biological material from unidentified bodies are being processed across 24 expert centres. This is taking into account the repatriations that took place in January, February and March.
Samples from unidentified bodies are examined in the expert centres over the course of a month, provided a DNA profile can be established, explains Ruslan Abbasov. However, if the body has already decomposed or is severely damaged due to high temperatures or decay, the process may take longer.
“By the time the body is found and delivered, a significant amount of time has passed. And in fact, the person could have died as long as three years ago. To this day, bodies of those missing since 2022 are still being delivered,” says the deputy director of the State Forensic Expertise Centre.
And although the quality of the samples deteriorates over time, matches are currently being identified with the bodies of soldiers who died during the ATO/JFO. Analysing such samples is more complex and takes more time and resources, but such cases do occur.
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