The Ministry of Justice, headed by Pilar Llop, has already distributed, with the technical collaboration of the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences (INTCF), the first 1,000 kits for obtaining samples for toxicological analysis in crimes facilitated by psychoactive substances - chemical submission.
This fulfills the commitment announced by Minister Pilar Llop when she presented the sampling kits for DNA analysis, on March 8, 2022.
In 2021, of the 950 cases of sexual assault with suspected chemical submissiveness analysed in the INTCF – in which 93.4% of the victims were women – positive results were obtained for alcohol, illicit drugs, psychopharmaceuticals or other medicines alone or in combination in 82.5% of the total.
In relation to the total number of cases, of the more than 3,000 sexual assaults analyzed by INTCF in 2021, one in three – 31% – were through chemical submission, according to the report of cases analyzed by this body.
The material now distributed incorporates all the elements to facilitate, both the joint collection of blood and urine samples, and the collection of all the information of interest in the investigation in a specific form based on the Good Practice Guide for Forensic Action against the victim of a crime facilitated by psychoactive substances.
All this will improve the quality of the collection, conservation, sending and toxicological research in the victims of crimes facilitated by the use of psychoactive substances, as well as the standardization of the process at the national level.
The Sub-Directorate General of Territorial Cooperation and Coordination, under the Ministry of Justice, and INCTF have been responsible for providing the kits to the 34 Legal and Forensic Medicine Institutes existing in Spain, both to the 12 operating within the territory of the Ministry, and to the 22 that depend on the autonomous communities with transferred competences in the field of Justice. In addition, a new consignment of another 1,000 units is planned.