NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner (New York City, New York)

 medical, forensics, morgue / mortuary

The Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York (OCME) investigates cases of persons who die within New York City from criminal violence; by casualty or by suicide; suddenly, when in apparent good health; when unattended by a physician; in a correctional facility; or in any suspicious or unusual manner.

The OCME also investigates when an application is made pursuant to law for a permit to cremate the body of a deceased person. The office was established in 1918 pursuant to a 1915 Act of the New York State Legislature.

The OCME provides the citizens of New York City essential services directly by identifying the manner and cause of death in specified cases as well as providing state of the art forensic DNA analysis through the OCME Forensic Biology Laboratory.

Location of Manhattan morgue and site of several forensic laboratories.

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