Mr. Edgar F. Koch Sr.

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  www.foplodge4.org/news.php?id=8374 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/20/2008    Last Visited: 9/26/2008  

  Edgar Koch, the city's crime lab director since 1997, was terminated Tuesday, because of "a number of operational issues," said Sterling Clifford, a spokesman for Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld.
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  Koch had been categorizing those DNA samples as "unknown genetic profiles" from crime scenes, according to Clifford.
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  Koch could not be reached for comment Wednesday.A lecturer at the University of Baltimore, Koch got his start in forensics as an officer in Anne Arundel County.
  
  The lab's deputy director, Sharon Talmadge, has replaced Koch.

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  www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=13629 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/13/2008    Last Visited: 5/16/2007  

  "Due to the lack of resources, the firearms lab will prioritize case assignments," wrote BPD's laboratory division director Edgar Koch on April 26.Gun cases involving "turn-ins, found property, suicide or items of no evidentiary value will no longer be examined unless a situation dictates otherwise," he wrote."Evidence involved in cases that have been adjudicated before examination will also not be analyzed."
  
  Turns out, Koch's policy revision didn't get very far."We are in the process of revising that new policy that director Koch announced," BPD spokesman Matt Jablow said on May 9 when asked about the e-mail.

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  www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=8351&type=UTTM - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/21/2008    Last Visited: 8/21/2008  

  Edgar F. Koch, the director of the crime laboratory, was fired Tuesday after samples that were identified as "unknown genetic profiles" were found to be those of lab employees.
  
  Koch has lectured on forensics for six years in the University of Baltimore's Division of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Forensic Studies, according to the school's Web site.

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  www.foplodge4.org/news.php?id=8379 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/22/2008    Last Visited: 9/26/2008  

  In an interview Wednesday, the former crime lab director, Edgar Koch, said the failure to enter staff DNA profiles into the database, after collecting them in 2005, was a mix-up by a supervisor who is no longer with the department.
  
  "Here I thought it was being done," said Koch, who was fired Tuesday.
  
  It was unclear yesterday whether recently hired lab employees submitted DNA samples that were entered in a timely fashion.
  
  Koch said that one analyst alone was responsible for four of the contaminations, with that analyst's skin cells showing up in the samples.But Koch said the problem was being blown out of proportion and staff contamination can now quickly be identified and the false label of "unknown" wiped away.

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  www.foplodge4.org/news.php?id=8370 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/21/2008    Last Visited: 9/26/2008  

  Edgar Koch, who had been the city lab's director for the past decade, was fired Tuesday because of the DNA contamination and other "operational issues," said police spokesman Sterling Clifford.
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  Reached at home yesterday, Koch, a former Anne Arundel County police officer who developed the forensics lab there, said supervisors had mistakenly believed since 2005 that the lab staff's DNA samples had been entered into the database when they had in fact been sitting on a shelf.
  
  He said he notified Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III when the oversight was discovered.He said Bealefeld was "not happy" and told him to resign late Tuesday.
  
  "I was there 12 years and never had any issues," Koch said, adding that he was never informed of any other concerns with his job performance.
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  Koch said that contamination does occur but called criticism a "smoke screen" and an attempt to "taint a jury pool by making accusations."
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  Koch was paid about $105,000 last year.

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  Published on: 5/13/2008    Last Visited: 5/20/2008  

  Edgar Koch, chief of the Baltimore City Police Department rsquo.Get to a hospital right away.

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  Consortium of Forensic Science Organizations -- News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/19/2006    Last Visited: 8/20/2008  

  Edgar Koch, the crime lab's director, said in an interview that the lab began seeking to raise its standards more than 10 years ago, and that the process accelerated a few years ago.Since 2000, with the help of federal grants, the lab has been able to expand the number of employees, who have helped cut its backlog of DNA evidence analysis.
  
  In 2001, Koch said the backlog of cases with evidence awaiting DNA testing stood at 5,100.The backlog now is about 400, he said.
  
  The lab's work ranges from DNA and drug analysis to firearms and latent print examinations.

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  HometownAnnapolis.com, For the Record - Police beat... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/7/2006    Last Visited: 10/7/2006  

  According to a police report, Officer Koch knew Mr. McMurdy had previously resisted arrest and fought officers.
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  Officer Koch yanked his own thumb back into joint and then took himself to Baltimore Washington Medical Center.He was ordered to take off four days while his hand healed.He will be back to duty Oct. 8.

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  Laboratory - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/18/2002    Last Visited: 6/18/2002  

  Edgar F. Koch, Sr. became the Director of the Baltimore Police Department Crime Laboratory in January 1997.Mr. Koch is a retired Deputy Chief of Police from Anne Arundel County, Maryland.Mr. Koch rose through the ranks of the Anne Arundel County Police Department to Deputy Chief of Police.He was instrumental in the creation of that department's Crime Laboratory and in the construction of the present facility.Director Koch holds a B.S. Degree in Chemistry from Towson University and a M.S. Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Baltimore.Mr. Koch is an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice at Towson University.He is also a graduate of the FBI National Academy in the 153rd Session.
  
  Edgar F. Koch, Sr.Baltimore Police Department
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  Edgar.F. Koch, Jr.
  
  MISSION STATEMENT
  
  The objective of the Laboratory Section is to provide the Baltimore Police Department with the highest quality, most accurate and efficient forensic scientific support available.
  
  ORGANIZATION
  
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  Director Thomas Muller retired in 1996 and was replaced by Acting Director Sharon Talmadge until the appointment of Director Edgar F. Koch, Sr. in January of 1997.

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  Published on: 2/14/2002    Last Visited: 9/20/2008  

  An Article by Edgar F. Koch, SR., Director of Crime Laboratory, Baltimore City Police Department

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