Over the next six months the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) will be testing a new DNA collection kit that promises to assist the department in obtaining DNA from firearms left at a crime scene.

The kits, which are called Trigger ID kits, will be carried by approximately 200 officers and will give metropolitan police the ability to swab a gun before it is removed from a crime scene, greatly improving the chances of obtaining DNA evidence. According to the kit’s inventor, Vincent Perez, studies have shown that forensic analysts find DNA on a firearm more often than they find fingerprints, making a case for the usefulness of this new technology. (more…)