The International Police Organization's crime lab handles evidence collection and analysis not only for the IPO itself, but also the New Avalon Police Department, the Avalon County Sheriff's Department, and IPO-allied agencies all over the galaxy. With the finest equipment and the broadest mandate of any crime lab in the galaxy, these scientific detectives may find themselves called on to unravel the clues pointing to the cause of anything from an unexplained death in a Salutown alley to the disappearance of a spaceliner.