Netherlands Forensic Institute

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.{{cite web|title=Netherlands Forensic Institute|url=http://www.euroforgen.eu/the-group/consortium/netherlands-forensic-institute/|publisher=euroforgen.eu|accessdate=29 March 2014}}{{cite web|title=Netherlands Forensic Institute / Claus en Kaan Architecten|date=23 September 2013|url=http://www.archdaily.com/428406/netherlands-forensic-institute-claus-en-kaan-architecten/|publisher=archdaily.com|accessdate=29 March 2014}}

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.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

Pathologist Dr. Jan Zeldenrust was the first director of this laboratory.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

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 Ypenburg quarter of The Hague.

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• Deventer murder case

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• [http://www.forensicinstitute.nl/ Netherlands Forensic Institute]
• [http://www.forensischinstituut.nl/ Netherlands Forensic Institute] {{in lang|nl}}

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