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Panama and Costa Rica enter DNA data system to combat crime

WASHINGTON (AFP). -The Federal Bureau of Investigation United States (FBI) share your System Combined DNA Index (CODIS, in English) with the authorities of Panama and Costa Rica "to assist international agencies in the enforcement against crime violent, "reported today in a statement. 
 
This agreement will enable the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Science of Panama and the Judicial Branch of Costa Rica operate on a database of DNA using" the same platform that already use many of its counterparts in South America, Mexico and the Caribbean. "
 
" Once installed Codis, the Institutes of Forensic Medicine will access more than 70 international laboratories that are using software to manage their DNA data "said the statement, which also clarifies that the system will not have an unbroken connection with the U.S. database. 
 
the FBI Laboratory sponsored Codis as part of a program of international technical assistance for law enforcement in forensic laboratories. 
 
the software allows laboratories to store, compare and match DNA records of offenders, crime scene evidence, unidentified human remains, and data from relatives of missing persons. In 1998 he established the U.S. database of DNA, known as the System of National Index of DNA (NDIS), which currently has more than 11 million search profiles and has helped nearly 170 thousand investigations. 
 
Codis "has been particularly useful for investigations in the past of which are no longer produced new tracks "and has the participation of over 260 laboratories in over 35 countries.