P.R. Laws tit. 34, § 3003
The Puerto Rico Institute of Forensic Sciences is hereby created as an autonomous entity.
The scientific and technical divisions of the Institute shall be accredited and subsequently reaccredited and certified by the appropriate accrediting institutions, as established herein below:
(a) The Crime Laboratory, by the American Society of Crime Laboratory [sic].
(b) The Pathology Division, by the National Association of Medical Examiners.
(c) The Forensic Investigators and Security Division, by Forensic Quality Services.
(d) Other organizations of equal standing recognized nationally or internationally in the forensic field.
Likewise, the Institute, as an autonomous institution, shall belong to the genetic profile database system known as CODIS (the FBI Laboratory’s Combined DNA Index System).
To such effect, the Director of the Institute shall present an institutional plan to the Board of Directors and the Legislative Assembly establishing the courses of action to follow in order to obtain such accreditations or certifications. Such plan shall be presented six (6) months after the date of approval of this act.
History —July 24, 1985, No. 13, p. 689, § 3, retroactive to July 1, 1985; Dec. 29, 2009, No. 200, § 2.