“M.A.F.S.” ( Mediterranean Academy of Forensic Sciences) has been founded by Professors: Said Louahlia, Director of the National Institute of Legal Medicine of Morocco; Alì Chadly, Director of the Institute of Legal Medicine of the Universitary Hospital of Monastir (Tunisia); Aldo Barbaro, Director of SIMEF (Italy).

The Academy aim is to realize an exchange of informations and a collaboration among all the experts on the Forensic Sciences (forensic psychiatry, bioethics, legal odontology, genetics, fingerprinting, toxicology, ballistics, materials analysis, digital reconstruction, legal medicine, criminology) with the aim of improve the actual strategies to prevent the crime in its various forms and to discover and to deliver the offenders to justice of the single countries.

For the above reason, can apply to the Academy, apart from the Medical Examiners, also Magistrates, Officers of the different Police Corps, Lawyers, Detectives, Psychologists, Sociologists, and all those (privates or businesses) that work, at various title, in the forensic field as well (production of softwares or hardwares, production of equipments, etc…).

Since the aim of the Academy is to increase the cultural exchanges among experts on the Forensic Sciences, specialists from areas different than Mediterranean one , can join M.A.F.S. too.

Source: http://www.mafs.info/MAFS.htm