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US 'Sherlock' Lee helps train detective in China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-10-30 21:27

This May 20, 2006 file photo shows American forensic scientist Henry Chang-Yu Lee speaking in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong province. [Xinhua]

XI'AN: A research center named after renowned American forensic scientist Henry Chang-Yu Lee has been set up in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, a senior official with the provincial public security bureau said Friday.

The research center will serve as a good platform for training policemen and professional detectives for the province, said Bai Shaokang, deputy head of the bureau.

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Bai said Lee will come regularly to the center to provide technical support to investigations of major criminal cases in the province, including crime scene reconstruction, evidence collection and forensic analysis.

Local detectives will have the chance to undergo training in Lee's laboratory in the United States based on their performances, Bai said. But he did not say how many local police will be selected annually.

Seventy one-year-old Lee has worked on famous cases such as the JonBenet Ramsey, the O.J. Simpson and Laci Peterson cases, and the forensic investigation on post-September 11 attacks.

He served as Connecticut's Commissioner of Public Safety and the state's chief criminologist from 1979 to 2000. Currently he resides in Connecticut.