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From the outside, the Sir Alec Jeffries building, located in Calder Park in Wakefield, looks like the corporate offices of an international bank, a multi-national oil company or high-end computer technology firm. But in fact, the building, located off junction 39 of the M1, in West Yorkshire, is home to the Regional Forensic and Scientific Support Unit, colloquially known as CSI Wakefield.
This £21 million pound building, which overlooks a man-made lake, is named after the discoverer of DNA profiling and is the largest forensic facility outside that of the Metropolitan Police in London. Detectives from the three Yorkshire police forces as well as the Humberside force can call on the laboratory twenty-four hours a day. The laboratory can utilise the most up-to-date state-of-th
