 Thanks for joining us for this very special edition of The Blue and You. Now let's continue our tour of Denver's brand new state-of-the-art crime lab. Okay, we're going to go into forensic imaging. Used to be the old photo lab where we developed color photographs, black and white photographs, but we don't do that anymore. Now everything is digital. I think since 2004 we actually went digital. So let's go into the studio and I'll show you a little bit of what we have. Again, this is all done in number 12 gray. I guess it's supposed to be the photographer's dream. We'll have all kinds of backdrops in here. We have a catwalk that's about 12 feet above the floor so we can do down shots on larger equipment. Dressing room for victim and suspect. In addition, we also have an entrance. As we, this lab will be our closed-down facility. There really won't be anybody allowed into the laboratory area, but we still need to bring victim and suspects into this area to be documented. So we have a door on the, it goes to the exterior of the building. It's a one-way door and these people are escorted in by police officers. Have their pictures taken and then they're escorted out so we don't have to worry about building integrity, that type of thing. We're on the second floor now. And for the most part, DNA occupies the analytical side of the second floor. But I'd like to show you right now what we call forensic biology. And basically, they're the ones that are going to be searching our evidence for particles. And they could be blood particles or semen or saliva. They could be hairs. They could be fibers. They could be anything, but that's what we're going to be searching for. So let me show you how they do that. When we were looking in the instrumentation room of the old lab, and you were looking at chemists that were doing some organic work, and if you looked to the north of them, we had a table where people were searching evidence. In this building, we have four different rooms that are designed for specific areas of inspection. This room is going to be used for small item inspection. And generally, most of our stuff that's coming in here is going to be small item. That'd be the individual clothing or the guns or the knives or shoes or whatever the case might be will be looked at in this room. Again, we've got articulated search lamps. This is going to make their job a lot easier. These are basically a dental type format. But they're all articulated. They can move at various places that we want them to. Anywhere that we need them, they can move to it. So we've kind of designed that into this format. Down a little bit further. Again, notice the light, too, while you're doing it. And notice the space. Remember, I promised you that this was going to be the format is space. So instead of that one little table in the instrument room, we've now got five separate rooms. We have a need to look at evidence with various different wavelengths of light. So we have a room that we can black out and look at evidence under a dark and then illuminated condition. We're not going to take the evidence out into the hallway. The evidence will stay in this area. And then we're going to take it through a pass-through that we have. So once we've extracted it and we've developed our sample trays, we're going to place it in this pass-through. And again, the other door won't open as long as this door is open. Put our evidence in there, seal it up. And now the people in the post-amp area across the window, across the wall here, will grab that evidence, put it into the 3130s, analyze it, and come up with a GIDNA profile. All of this without taking the evidence back out into the hallway. And before we were avoiding contamination, we're speeding up the process. We're eliminating bottlenecks. And again, efficiency is going to be increased at this point. Do you remember the lunch room? But the lunch room itself has grown. Most of us, we don't go to restaurants. We don't have time. We're working at our benches. So most of us brown packet. And this is an opportunity for folks to come together. So again, notice the light space in here. This is open. This is good stuff. You're watching the Blue with You on Denver's Channel 8.