Operations of the Criminal Investigation Bureau will be suspended until September as its offices will be relocated to a new building, raising fears of delay in crime investigations. But the CIB has reassured the public that, during the period of relocation, urgent cases will still be processed.

In 2008, the Changhua County Sijhou Township case involving unknown human remains and bones took 12 years to solve, though successful detection using forensic DNA evidence eventually confirmed this person's identity.

The CIB's forensic science group was also responsibility for a chemical poisoning case, matching DNA samples and conducting comparisons.

Over the years, it has also assisted in solving many criminal cases.

However, preparations for a move to a new location means that it will suspend the acceptance and testing of new materials, though Judy Cheng,

head of the Criminal Investigation Bureau's Forensic Identification Division, said it would not affect operations.

In major cases or emergency cases, the CIB and will continue to pickup materials although forensic equipment has been moved to a new building and will undergo re-positioning, calibration, testing.

At the earliest, September 1st will see a return to normal operations.

During this gap between operations at the new facility, the CIB will assist other units in carrying out testing. Spending more than 1 billion NT$ for the 4 year construction of the new CIB technology building,

it is expected to be operations at the beginning of October, with the forensics and forensics law departments being the first to move in.

In the future, this integrated forensic science center will purchase more sophisticated equipment as expectations include an improved ability to solve domestic criminal cases based on forensics science.