Medical Examiner
ABOUT The Allegheny County Office of the Medical Examiner (ACOME) serves the citizens of Allegheny County by supporting law enforcement, the public defender’s office, district attorney’s office and judicial system by providing Medico-legal death investigation, forensic, clinical, and environmental analysis, consultation, and expert testimony. The office has the additional mission of using the knowledge obtained in this process to promote education and research into the key public health problems facing the citizens of the county such as gun violence, drug overdose, suicide, and other issues. MISSION
The Office of the Medical Examiner performs autopsies for all criminal, accidental, or suspicious deaths in Allegheny County. The Medical Examiner also analyzes evidence for law enforcement, the judicial court system, the Office of the Public Defender, and health and environmental agencies.
The department has two divisions, Morgue Operations, which performs autopsies and other related services and Laboratory Operations, which processes forensic and environmental materials. Lab sections include the following disciplines: Drug Chemistry; Environmental Chemistry; Firearms and Tool Marks; Forensic Biology (DNA and Serology); Latent Prints; Mobile Crime Unit; Toxicology; Trace Evidence. There are 102 full-time employees who work in the Office of the Medical Examiner. These individuals fulfill many roles: forensic investigators, forensic pathologists, forensic supervisors, scientists, autopsy/histology, administrative staff, evidence specialists.
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