The Netherlands Forensic Institute (Dutch ''Nederlands Forensisch Instituut'') is the national

forensics Forensic science, also known as criminalistics, is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and crimina ...

institute of the Netherlands, located in the

Ypenburg Leidschenveen-Ypenburg () is a Vinex-location and district of The Hague, located in the southeast. It is geographically connected to the main body of the city by only a narrow corridor. It consists of four quarters: Hoornwijk and Ypenburg on the ...

quarter of The Hague. It is an autonomous division of the Dutch

Ministry of Security and Justice The Ministry of Justice and Security ( nl, Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid; JenV) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for justice, imprisonment and public security. The Ministry was created in 1798 as the ''Department of Justice'', before i ...

and falls under the Directorate-General for the Administration of Justice and Law Enforcement.

History

On 30 July 1945, the government decided to set up a Justice Laboratory. Three years later, on 4 November 1948, the laboratory became a department of the Ministry of Justice. A similar institution was founded in 1951: ''Gerechtelijk Geneeskundig Laboratorium'' (Judicial Medical Laboratory), which was later renamed ''Laboratorium voor Gerechtelijke Pathologie'' Laboratory for Judicial Pathology which were located at the building in The Hague which was later used by Europol. Pathologist Dr. Jan Zeldenrust was the first CEO of this laboratory. On 1 November 1999, the two laboratories merged into the ''Nederlands Forensisch Instituut'' (Netherlands Forensic Institute). The laboratory was based in Rijswijk until October 2004, when it moved to the

quarter of The Hague.

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