Thirty Years of Expertise – The Past and Present of the Forensic Expert Activities in the Institute of Expert Services of the Special Service for National Security

Abstract

The Institute for Expert Services of the Special Service for National Security is an institute the expert activities of which cover both the operational cases (concerning secret intelligence gathering) and the judicial cases (performing regulatory, authoritative and forensic expertise). Therefore we can claim that our institute is in a privileged position. The purpose of the present study is to give an overview of the forensic expert activities carried out by the Institute for Expert Services, paying special attention to our expertise regarding the exploration of priority crimes in the past thirty years.