Violent crime court cases often get postponed around a hundred days just for not getting timely forensic results back from The Netherlands. St. Maarten currently depends on The Dutch Forensic Institute (Nederlands Forensisch Instituut) (www.forensischinstituut.nl)

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Sounds like a good business opportunity for a US forensic lab to penetrate this market.

Surely St. Maarten is not the only island in the Caribbean that has this problem of being dependent of their 'mother country'.

On St. Maarten they don't even have a fingerprint database or software. Imagine how the local police force must solve a crime...and not only this, imagine they have to leave a criminal go because of lack of evidence...

Forensic trace evidence from burglaries, shoe prints, forgeries and blood spectrum are high on the list of needs for St. Maarten, now more than ever since St. Maarten is becoming a country.