 I'm Detective John White, your host of The Blue and You, and welcome to this very special edition of our program. The City and County of Denver has a brand new crime lab. So first we're going to show you inside the old crime lab so that you can compare it to the new crime lab. Let's now join Deputy Director Mark Owen as he gives us a brand new behind the scenes tour of the new facility. We grew our facility in 1985. It's a system right now that we're still doing ISO accredited type work. We've got dedicated workers, but we don't have the space to work without bottleneck anymore. And to your right we have our organic instrumentation. We do a lot of drug analysis, flood alcohol analysis, but we're trying to find space to do searching for trace evidence and for DNA evidence. And the only space we really had on this floor was again in the instrument room that we're looking at, but in the very far corners. So we do, we have two different areas right now that we search for evidence in one of missing instrument room. It works, but it's not great, so we need to improve on that. At this point, if I can, I can take you over to our DNA unit and again show you how confining we are. Before we get into post-imp, make sure you look at the space that we have available and understand that I have 12 people doing the analysis, sharing the same space with each other and realize the extreme cramping and bottleneck that we're going to be going through. So this is just going to give you an idea of where we're coming from. Late in prints, late in prints are going to be doing fingerprints, tire marks, and shoe prints. What Chuck's doing is looking at an enhydrant print that we got off the back of a payroll check and it's a chemical process that we do to help enhance the fingerprint on paper. But what he's doing right now is comparing it to a known 10-1 card and this one here is a full palm print. So apparently we got some good prints off the palm and we'll do some kind of a comparison, put it on to our automated fingerprint identification system and come up with a potential suspect for it. For each of our detectives up here, their workspace is basically centered around one light table in the new lab. The light table is part of a whole work center and we've probably increased the workspace for each individual about five or six times. Firearms, it's another area that we're making huge, huge strides in. We have a range back here, the range is like a 25-foot range. We have a vertical water tank that really can only handle handguns. If we want to do a firearm or a long gun test, we have to use other facilities for that. This is part of the old crime laboratory and we're looking at their work area. Again, this is shared by three different examiners. There's not a whole lot of space for everybody to work together so they have to work and shift work. This is our lunch room. This is for 44 people to share. We don't have time to go to restaurants. Most of our people brown bag it so 44 people share this lunch room. Basically, this is our trace evidence unit and again they're doing hairs, fibers, explosive residues, gunshot residues, fracture matches, soils, glass, anything basic that's inorganic. If you look around here and do a kind of a pan of the area, you'll notice that their administrative area is in their laboratory area and vice versa. Again, everything is cramped and crowded and just bogged down with stuff. At this point, I want to take you over to the new facility. We have our ribbon cutting on June 5. We're going to start moving our equipment over starting June 11 and hopefully we'll be operational by the 1st of July. If we can make this move smooth and we can validate our equipment, we'll be up and running by the 1st of July. Thanks for joining us on our two of Denver's brand new crime lab. Here are the days and times you can catch the blue and you on Denver's Channel 8.