KINGSTON, R.I. — The Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory at the University of Rhode Island has been awarded $109,650 to provide more advanced equipment and training to fight domestic violence, university officials said.
The grant was awarded by the federal Violence Against Women Act and will be administered by the Rhode Island Justice Commission. The money will be used to equip the state’s 38 municipal departments, the State Police (two units), the State Fire Marshal’s Office, the Department of the Attorney General and the State Crime Laboratory with digital cameras, high-speed computers and photo-quality color printers, the university said.
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According to Dennis Hilliard, director of the state crime laboratory and co-director of the URI Forensic Partnership, the new equipment will allow law enforcement agencies to create and review digital images used to capture evidence of domestic violence — speeding up the copying, transferal and archiving of them for future use in court.
