It is waiting for the first suspects to go free because the organization of the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) is "such a mess".
According to Marnix Hoitink, chairman of the council, is likely lost evidence for criminal cases passed through the programming errors of the robots. The management denies datmet clip. Director Woittiez moreover does not recognize the negative image that outlined employees. According to him, makes the NFI on the Hague-imposed cuts through a tough time. "A cut of 9 million on an annual budget of 67 million is heavy."
'Disease'
Hoitink calls the programming errors of the robots' a symptom of the disease suffered by the NFI. The employees are under huge pressure to run production, "he says. The latest internal figures show that the NFI does not achieve the required production standard of 95 per cent: only 84 percent of the studies completed on time. On the Human Biological Traces department, where DNA testing is covered, the situation is worse: half of the business is not ready in time.
The staff problems due to a "vision-free reorganization" of an "incompetent manager": Reinout Woittiez. He economizes inter alia by removing small areas of research in their entirety. Thereby disappears handwriting and paint research and comparative morphological her research. Those studies are, as far as possible, been taken over by other departments or outsourced at home and abroad. According to the staff that is more expensive and it works retardant, and this is at the expense of quality.
"Employees are not heard '
The employees do not feel heard their complaints. De Volkskrant spoke twelve stakeholders across multiple departments and levels. Most want to remain anonymous for fear of consequences. In addition, bases the paper on internal documents, including five critical blogs about the management culture. Then came more than eighty consenting reactions.The NFI employs more than five hundred employees.
The staff finds it worrisome that the director - who has no forensics background - not asking them "to think along with the cutbacks and in important decisions." They blame the management that she be treated like children. " As employees of the DNA department had some time keeping lists of what they did in a day. Even the toilet had been reported, according to an internal document held by the Volkskrant. According to a spokesman NFI involved a voluntary questionnaire and did not have to state the sanitary stop.
"Pain is projected at Directors'
Director Woittiez rule out that there may be created by workload, dissatisfaction and reorganization mistakes. "Quality is deeply rooted in our genes." According to him, the pain 'projected onto the director. "I'll be stuck in playing my role. But the golden key: find the dialogue with each other. "
The employees are afraid that their agency - which includes the mystery of the Utrecht serial rapist was unraveled and which belongs to the top of the forensic world - now slipping off the board more research will outsource to commercial parties. They fear that their befalls the same as the British premier Forensic Science Service (FSS).
This government agency had to compete with the market and went bankrupt in 2012. Last year, it was found that the quality of forensic investigation in Britain because it had fallen, that the market was fragmented and hard to overlook the costs. Last month, the BBC reported that there are plans to re-establish a government institute.
http://www.volkskrant.nl/BR By: Elsbeth Stoker, Wil Thijssen Photo: Reuters
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