Following through on campaign promise, Attorney General-elect Mike DeWine will have a focus on speeding up the processing of evidence.

From the Columbus Dispatch:

Incoming Attorney General Mike DeWine plans to have an office in the state’s crime lab, which he criticized during the campaign as slow and inefficient.

Working at the London-based Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation would shave more than half of the time off DeWine’s commute from his home in Cedarville as opposed to working at the attorney general’s main office in Columbus.

But DeWine says distance has nothing to do with it. The Republican spent much of the campaign criticizing Attorney General Richard Cordray’s management of the state crime lab, which assists local authorities with highly technical investigations involving DNA, ballistics, computer forensics and other specialized evidence.

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