FSL lab

Warrant Officer Setshedi communicated with Lt Colonel Jacob about whether a case sampled by DPCI and forwarded to the FSL lab for analysis could be analyzed by one of the crime scene analysts, meaning his team members could assist.

“Warrant Officer Setshedi informed me that there was Lieutenant Colonel Jacob early this morning and Lieutenant Colonel Jacob asked him if it is possible that the case that the DPCI sampled and forwarded to FSL lab for analysis could be analysed by one of the crime scene analysts, which means on those words, he was meaning my team members, can assists”

The procedural norm is that the investigating officer does not pick the analyst to analyze a case; the case was directly brought to the lab and was already within the FSL system, outside the clan lab's restrictions.

“I responded to Warrant Officer Setshedi that procedurally, the IO do not pick up the analyst to analyse a case. And secondly, this case that Lieutenant Colonel Jacob was referring to was the case that was brought directly to the lab. So it was already within the FSL system, which is out of my restriction as a clan lab. So they indicated to Warrant Officer Setshedi that procedurally, investigating officer, they do not pick an analyst to analyse a case and that will not be done, and that was then.”

Not all exhibits come to the FSL because a subsection collects exhibits; the witness does not have details on whether there was an error in sampling or timing regarding a case brought as a sample by DPCI.

“Firstly, not all the exhibits come to the FSL, because there is my subsection that goes out there to collect exhibits. And secondly, the issue of sampling, I do not have the details whether sampling or they analyse or they brought it the wrong time, because I know nothing about this.”