Fascinating forensic facts

During my research for my DI Andy Horton contemporary set Solent Murder Mysteries I come across some interesting forensic facts. Here's a little one about DNA and forensic evidence.

Did you know that in England a DNA test taken by the police usually takes 5 days for the results to come through. Not quite what you see on the television or read in crime fiction where the results can be portrayed as almost instantaneous - still we are allowed to bend the rules occasionally, after all it is fiction! (I have been told though that DNA tests can be fast-tracked as can fingerprints)

Did you also know that somewhere in England (the location is a secret) there is a very large forensic archive storage warehouse where all the evidence which has been collected on cases solved, unsolved and unresolved are held. Let's hope there is never a fire!