The service aims to use its database to store ballistics information about police cases involving firearms, and consequently maintain it for future use and reference.

[1] The service operates four facilities to test and analyse firearms evidence to help link it with other cases.

[2] These are based in Birmingham, London,Manchester and at Gartcosh in the Scottish Crime Campus in the town.

[3] The service was officially launched on 1 April 2008[4] and can be roughly compared to the Integrated Ballistics Identification System operating in the United States.

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