Presented in the Channel: Law Enforcement. United we keep our communities safer: Discover how decentralized forensic DNA capabilities of the French Gendarmerie protects millions of French citizens In this session, Lieutenant Colonel, Sylvain Hubac describes how the French Gendarmerie is preparing to use Rapid DNA in their overseas territories. France is a country characterized by a specific geography with 65 million citizens to protect on the mainland and almost 10 million in overseas territory islands. These overseas islands span three oceans and experience a high level of criminality, comprising of nearly 3 million cases per year. The use of Rapid DNA rebalances the analysis capabilities by deploying Rapid DNA instrumentation to overseas territories, without a trained DNA expert on site.