The University Research Institute of Criminology and Criminal Science of the Universitat de València (ICCP), one of the most reputable in its field, was created fifty years ago, and is the second oldest institute in Spain, only behind the Institute of the same name at the Complutense University of Madrid. Now the Institute wants to take another step forward in the fight against crime by setting up the "CrimLab", a Criminology and Criminalistics Laboratory that will begin operating in the following weeks and which will operate as a laboratory or specialised department, very similar in some aspects to the work carried out by the specialists of the team of forensic investigators of the fictional television series CSI Miami.

Crime scene analysis, dactyloscopy and necro-identification reports, ballistics, image technologies, computer forensics, criminological expert reports or psychiatric profiles, investigation of deflagrations or accidents, are some of the services that 'CrimLab' will make available to its clients.

José Luis Gonzáles Cussac, Professor of Criminal Law at the UV and director of the ICCP explains that "the idea of creating a laboratory for criminalistic studies associated with our Institute arises from the need to provide support not only to legal professionals and administrations, but also to those individuals who, for one reason or another, need help. For example, in risk management in companies, building security, support for insurance companies, reinforcement of police reports on crimes or offences which, although not contradictory, could provide different views and even, why not, approaches to new hypotheses".

In addition to the use of the latest technologies, the 'CrimLab' will have a team of researchers and psychologists attached to the Institute, experts from the Criminal Law Department of the Faculty of Law, and commissioners and inspectors of the National Police Force associated with the ICCP, including Francisco Planells, former head of the Scientific Police Brigade of Valencia, who will be the chief coordinator of the 'CrimLab'.