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SFPD to test all sexual assault kits after audit, vows lab staffing increases
Summary
The commission heard a report showing hundreds of previously untested sexual-assault kits; Chief Suhr ordered testing of remaining kits, the ASAP program was expanded and the department said it will hire analysts and outsource work to address backlog.
The San Francisco Police Department told the Police Commission on Jan. 22 that it will test all sexual-assault kits going forward and is expanding lab capacity to clear a backlog.
Captain Parra, presenting the department94s audit of assault-kit processing, reported a multi-year property-control review that identified a large number of kits taken into custody between 2003 and 2012. The transcript records the audit numbers as 1,707 kits taken into custody in that span, of which roughly 813 were sent to the crime lab for analysis and about 894 were not; the department identified 141 ASAP (Additional Sexual Assault Evidence…
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