Fraudulent identity and security documents are the grease that eases cross-border crime of all types: smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons, terrorist mobility, smuggling of drugs, weapons and other goods, and fraud. Unfortunately there is a lack of awareness among relevant criminal justice practitioners of the benefits that forensic document examinations may provide to assist border control security and immigration facilities, explains Justice Tettey, the Chief of the Laboratory Section at UNODC.
In order to build this capacity, UNODC has issued a guide to provide practical assistance for the establishment or upgrading of forensic document examination and intelligence dissemination capacities.
The guide, entitled Guide for the Development of Forensic Document Examination Capacity aims to provide assistance to two categories of service providers: immigration and border control agencies and forensic science laboratories.
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