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Writing Policies
and Procedures
Industrial laboratories, clinical laboratories, and even consulting laborato-
ries nd it necessary to conserve time and investment by using the shortest,
most ecient, and best standardized methods possible in order to operate
eciently. If the police laboratory is to earn its way, it also must standardize
its procedures to cope with the large number of cases that require or should
receive its attentions without at the same time being so costly as to defeat its
own ends.
P. L. Kirk, Crime Investigation, Physical Evidence and the Police Laboratory
When things go wrong in a laboratory one does not have to wait lon ...