On Wednesday August 24, 2005, Governor Mitt Romney and Colonel Thomas G. Robbins, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, hosted the unveiling of the new State Police Crime Lab Facility in Sudbury.

The State Crime Lab, a division of the State Police, conducts forensic analysis for district attorneys and state and municipal law enforcement. The new facility houses 12,000 square feet of new office and examination space equipped with the latest in forensics technology and equipment. The new facility, which doubles the amount of available space for the Crime Lab, will greatly enhance the operational efficiency of the Crime Lab's personnel. The Crime Lab's budget of $12.6 million includes funding for a total of 34 DNA chemists to go along with the expanded facility.

"The implementation of this new space and the newly graduated DNA chemists will greatly enhance our efforts to provide the most efficient, quality forensic services to the district attorneys, local law enforcement agencies and to the citizens of the Commonwealth," said Colonel Robbins.

Services provided by the crime lab include controlled substance testing, bomb and arson investigations, toxicology, breath alcohol testing, criminalistics, trace evidence analysis and DNA casework. In addition to these "science-based" forensic laboratory services, the crime lab provides ballistics identification and crime scene services.