BISMARCK, N.D. – A declining variety of staff on the State Crime Lab in Bismarck has restricted what proof may be processed for legislation enforcement companies.
Legal professional Basic Wayne Stenehjem says eight of 23 lab staff have left within the final two years, together with 5 in 2021, as a result of they’ve been supplied greater salaries elsewhere, together with one worker who left for a place in Georgia the place the wage was $30,000 extra.
The lab has eradicated its firearms and latent fingerprint divisions as a result of staffing stage.
Stenehjem says South Dakota was doing firearms analyses for the lab however is now overwhelmed and unable to assist anymore.
