Chief Chemical Examiner to Government is the Head of Department as well as Government Scientific Expert u/s 293 of the code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.Material objects involved in Murder, sexual offence, human poisoning cases, animal poisoning cases, liquor samples under Abkari Act, narcotics under the NDPS act, 1985 are referred to Chief Chemical Examiner to Government for expert opinion. Annually about 50,000 articles involved in various crime heads are received in the Laboratory for examination.
To meet the steady increase in volume of work and to ensure speedy disposal of cases Regional Chemical Examiner's Laboratory , at Kozhikode (1986) and in Ernakulam (1989) were established.
