CAPE CORAL— The Cape Coral Police Department's mobile crime lab has high tech computers, black lights and other tools to help gather evidence at a crime scene. Investigators say the new mobile lab will help the department solve cases in half the time.

"We have all the different powders and chemicals that we need to process a crime scene," said Larry Stringham, Cape Coral Police Department forensics supervisor.

With the mobile crime lab, Stringham can take his job on the road. The CCPD just began using the unit and its first big case was the death of two teens Sunday morning.

"In this particular case we had a lot of evidence," said Stringham.

Stringham says the evidence was organized on-scene and because of the new mobile lab answers to perplexing questions came quicker to detectives.

"When you are trying to solve a crime, time is the element," said Stringham.

The goal is to solve cases faster. Stringham says when the mobile lab heads to serious incidents like a murder, not only is all the necessary investigative equipment on board, it also has the technology to send back fingerprints and photographs to the Cape Coral police station.

"On a homicide it may take me 72 hours which is a normal amount of time, hopefully this will cut it down to maybe a day and a half," said Stringham.

By staying on-scene there is also less of a chance of evidence contamination.

Another first for Cape Coral Police is the laser trajectory unit. It pinpoints where a bullet starts and stops.

"It's to reconstruct the crime scene to exactly the point the person was shot or the weapon was shot, and that will allow is to know if the person was standing up or sitting down, if the person who fired the weapon was pointing down, pointing up," said Stringham.

The mobile unit cost around $40,000.