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NEW YORK (AP) - The police crime lab commander was transferred after his unit never reported that two technicians had failed tests of their work, Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Thursday.
Kelly also initiated a review of the crime lab's operations. Department spokesman Paul Browne insisted the laboratory lapses were isolated and no criminal cases were compromised.
Because the lapses weren't reported, the department moved Deputy Chief Denis McCarthy from the Forensic Investigations Division to a patrol division and replaced him with Inspector Kevin Walsh, formerly assigned to the counterterrorism bureau.
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