Criteria for new specialties to be included on the register

Historically, many of the first specialties that were included on the CRFP register were those that were practised in the mainstream forensic laboratories and in the volume areas of police work. Forensic practice, however, encompasses many other disciplines.

New forensic disciplines are emerging as technology advances, job descriptions and functions develop and as the need for expert evidence encroaches into areas not always associated with the judicial system and its requirements. As a result, there is a need to enable those in these developing and changing forensic arenas to become registered with CRFP.

If you are working in such an area and would like to know what CRFP expects of those who wish to add their specialty to the register, please click here.

It is not only important that new specialties are given the opportunity to join the register, it is also vital that the availability of the specialty is made widely known to others working in that specialty. Click here for some ideas as to how new specialties can be brought to the attention of others.