Southern African nation Zambia has invested in a rapid DNA machine to improve its criminal justice system.The DNA analysis machine was commissioned last month in the capital, Lusaka by President Lungu under the theme 'Turn Back Crime'.The RapidHIT machine was acquired from Morpho Safran of France and commissioned at the Zambia Police Service headquarters.The acquisition of the machine, he added, was in line with government's vision and commitment to equip all government investigative agencies with new tools to enable them deal with new crime trends in the 21st Century.In less than two hours, the RapidHIT system is capable of simultaneously processing multiple samples to produce standardized DNA profiles of on par with established methods in forensic laboratories.He also said it would help clear a backlog of cases that cannot be disposed of because of lack of substantiated evidence. Stella Libongani, the Zambia Police Inspector-General the establishment of the DNA machine will ease the work of her officers as a lot of money was spent in transmitting samples to South Africa for analysis, a situation that caused delays in the criminal justice system. Morpho (Safran announced last April that it was joining with IntegenX to offer DNA identification solutions providing DNA profiles.

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