The doctoral programme in Forensic Science is an interuniversity programme managed by the University of Alcalá and the University of Murcia. In the University of Alcalá, this PhD programme lies in the University Institute for Research in Police Sciences, which is a joint institute managed by the University of Alcalá and the Ministry’s Secretary of State for Security. The Institute has signed collaboration agreements for the development of teaching and research activities in the field of Forensic Science with the Office of the Prosecutor-General and with the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Science. Furthermore, thanks to the investigators at the University Institute for Research in Police Sciences, who are professionals from the law enforcement agencies, access is available to the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI, http://www.enfsi.eu/), which includes data from European forensic laboratories. In addition, this Institute became a member of the Latin American Academy of Criminalistics and Forensic Studies (AICEF, http://www.aicef.net/) in 2013, an institution that includes all forensic laboratories from Latin America, Spain and Portugal, and whose main goal is to raise the quality of Forensic Science in those countries. Since 2008 it has been a member of the Professionalisation Academic Committee (CAP, http://www2.uah.es/cap_aicef/) which was created with the aim of establishing joint teaching and research programmes in the field of Forensic Science.
At the University of Murcia, the External Service of Forensic Science and Techniques (SECYTEF, http://www.um.es//web/forenses/), which is an external service of the University of Murcia and is managed autonomously, aims to present scientific and technical initiatives linked to Forensic Science to the society. This service has a team of researchers who advise and support units of structural forensic analysis, chemical forensic analysis, forensic botany, procedural law and criminological investigation, forensic entomology and microscopic analysis of evidence, forensic visual evaluation, forensic computing, forensic and legal medicine, forensic psychology and psychiatry, voice recognition and forensic toxicology. This service constitutes a set of human and material resources that make it possible to have an organisational structure where to carry out clinical, research and academic training activities in the scope of Forensic Science.
