Intervention Capacities

Disaster Victim Identification (DV) Team of the Civil Guard

The Civil Guard has a DVI team since 1992. It is currently a permanent member of the DVI Committee of Interpol.
The team includes staff from the Departments of Identification and Biology (ADN). Other members may be part of the team according to the complexity of the case, among others, the members of the Forensics Unit, the Technical Unit of the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard (Psychologists), the Health Unit of the Civil Guard (Physician, Radiologist, etc.), Legal Medicine of the University of Granada (Dentists) and the Central Hospital of the Defense-Gómez Ulla (Dentists).

They have intervened in numerous missions, for instance:

• Afghanistan 2005: Accident of a military helicopter, 17 bodies were identified in situ, 12 of them were charred (fingerprint and dental methods).
• Haiti 2010: Accident of a helicopter of the Spanish Navy, 4 bodies were identified in situ (fingerprint and dental methods).
• Madrid / Barajas Airport 2008: Air crash of a passenger plane of the Spanair company, 154 bodies were identified, 81 of them carbonized and 12 in the degree of large burned / partial char
• Albacete 2015: 11 deceased due to the accident of the F16 at the Air Base.

The team currently has  a Mobile Laboratory of Forenscis to transport technical material and to perform its tasks "in situ". The laboratory is placed on a truck, where there are all kinds of methods of identification (Fingerprint, Dental, Radiology …), except the Biological method. The refreshed shops allow to establish / simulate an área of Identification / autopsy