Opening

Sílvia Portugal, representing CES Scientific Board President

Moderator

Ana Raquel Matos, CES Researcher

Co-coordinator of NECTS Debates 2010

Position of guest speakers

What are the possibilities and the limits of science and technology

in the fight against crime?

. Rui Santos, Chief-Inspector of the Criminal Police Homicide Brigade

. Carlos Farinha, Director of the Forensic Science Laboratory, Main Coordinator of Criminal Investigation

. Francisco Corte-Real, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine

. Helena Moniz, Professor at the School of Law of the University of Coimbra, Member of the Supervisory Board of DNA genetic profile database

. Helena Machado, NECTS associate researcher, leading the project “Forensic DNA databasing in Portugal - contemporary issues in ethics, practices and policy”

. Amilton Nicolas Bento, Portuguese citizen, immigrant in England, condemned for homicide and later exonerated by the English courts

. Tânia Laranjo, journalist from Correio da Manhã

. Francisco José Viegas, journalist and writer

Break

Debate

Closing