DVI Reconciliation and Identification Authority
Definition
The process and competent authority responsible for evaluating antemortem and postmortem comparison and approving identification. Primary identifiers are fingerprints, dental evidence and DNA; INTERPOL does not prescribe a universal requirement for two concordant identifiers.
Related terms
- AFDIL (Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory)
- A US military DNA identification laboratory that supports human identification, including missing service members. Its institutional role does not establish an assumed...
- CDFD (Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics)
- An Indian biotechnology research and DNA-service institution in Hyderabad. Its DNA work has supported identification, including in the Nithari record and Uttarakhand...
- CFSL (Central Forensic Science Laboratory)
- A central government forensic laboratory. Different CFSL institutions have distinct administrative histories and scopes; a laboratory’s role in a specific disaster or...
- DVI Data-Management Software
- Software can help record and compare antemortem and postmortem data. A candidate match is not a legal identification: scientific review, discrepancy resolution...
- JIT (Joint Investigation Team)
- The multinational criminal investigation body established by the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, and Ukraine to investigate the criminal dimensions of the MH17...
- NDMA (National Disaster Management Authority)
- India’s national disaster-management authority. Its 2010 Management of the Dead in the Aftermath of Disasters guidance addresses preparedness, coordination, recovery, preservation, identification...
- Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS)
- High-throughput sequencing technologies (Illumina, Ion Torrent, Oxford Nanopore) that produce millions of reads in parallel. For plant forensics, they enable whole-chloroplast genome...
- OCME (Office of the Chief Medical Examiner)
- A US jurisdictional office, typically at state or county level, responsible for investigating deaths that occur under violent, suspicious, sudden, or unexplained...
- TTVI (Thai Tsunami Victim Identification)
- Thai-led international tsunami identification operation supported by INTERPOL. Its information centre recorded nearly 3,000 identifications among 3,750 cases by December 2005. These...