Standards

UK forensic practitioners are respected throughout the world. They produce results which help the courts reach defensible decisions. In this area quality matters, and the public rightly expect to place their confidence in forensic practitioners.

Few events shake that confidence so surely as the discovery of deficiencies leading to a miscarriage of justice. A rush of collapsed convictions in 1991 and 1992 provoked new thinking about quality assurance and risk management. The forensic community, to its credit, did not deny the problem but addressed it head on. CRFP emerged, our founders determined to show that the forensic professions could set high standards and police them effectively.

• Setting- Modern professional regulation is about defining safe confident practice and putting a boundary around it. More…

• Maintaining- We aim to ensure that registrants are not only competent when they apply, but maintain their competence throughout their time on the register. More…

• Highlighting- We want standards to remain at the top of everyone's agenda. More...

• The good practice portal - A new feature to our website, we will be presenting new policy and good forensic practice information. More....