Mission of the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory

To provide forensic science services to the criminal justice system in the areas of Pathology and Biology, Toxicology, Criminalistics, Raw Drug Analysis, Latent Fingerprint Identification, Questioned Document Examination, Firearm and Toolmark Identification, DNA Analysis and in other areas as the State Crime Laboratory Board may deem necessary and appropriate. To report the analytical findings in a manner which reflects that the proper procedures and safeguards were maintained while evidence was in possession of the Crime Laboratory and that accurate testimony is given as to those findings.