CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATIONS
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO | APRIL 24 - 28, 2023
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Instructor:
Shelly Dill, MS, CSCSA Location: Colorado Springs Police Department Operations Center 705 S. Nevada Avenue Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Hours: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Tuition: $629 This course is presented in partnership with the International Association for Identification. |
Crime Scene Investigations Workshop
This five-day (40 hour) Crime Scene Investigation course is intended for crime scene investigators/technicians, forensic technicians and detectives/investigators in the early stages of their career. This hands-on course is designed to familiarize law enforcement personnel with the basic technical skills needed to identify, document, preserve and collect the most common types of physical evidence found at crime scenes. Attendees will participate in numerous practical exercises to establish baseline knowledge in everything from crime scene documentation and photography to collecting various types of evidence for additional laboratory processing. Attendees will also be given an opportunity to learn fingerprint and latent print processing techniques utilizing a variety of chemicals and forensic light sources.
Day One and Two:
Crime Scene Investigation Overview
Day Three:
Photography
Death Investigations and scene processing
Day Four:
Fingerprints and Latent Processing Techniques
Report writing
Depositions / Trials / Preparing to testify
Day Five:
** Attendees are encouraged to bring any digital camera equipment normally issued by their agency. All other equipment and forensic supplies will be provided.
This course has been approved for 40 hours of certification/recertification training credits by the IAI Crime Scene Certification Board, 9 hours of credits for the Tenprint Certification Board, 8 hours of certification credits only for the Latent Print Certification board, & 18 hours of credit by the Forensic Photography Certification Board.
This five-day (40 hour) Crime Scene Investigation course is intended for crime scene investigators/technicians, forensic technicians and detectives/investigators in the early stages of their career. This hands-on course is designed to familiarize law enforcement personnel with the basic technical skills needed to identify, document, preserve and collect the most common types of physical evidence found at crime scenes. Attendees will participate in numerous practical exercises to establish baseline knowledge in everything from crime scene documentation and photography to collecting various types of evidence for additional laboratory processing. Attendees will also be given an opportunity to learn fingerprint and latent print processing techniques utilizing a variety of chemicals and forensic light sources.
Day One and Two:
Crime Scene Investigation Overview
- Processing versus Analysis
- Types of Scenes and different approaches to processing of each
- Scene security
- Search and identify physical evidence along with the “unseen” evidence may be present marking of the evidence
- Documentation
- Note taking (report writing discussed later in the class)
- Photography (discussed later in the class) / Video / 3D rendering
- Proper use of Forensic Scales
- Search and Grid methods
- Sketch and mapping the scene
- Documentation
- Evidence Analysis
- Recognition
- Classification (Identification):
- By time and environment (Predictable, Unpredictable, Transient, Relational, Functional, Missing
- By use (sequential, directional, action, position, ownership
- Individualization (known characteristics (exemplar), unique characteristics, unknown)
- Scene alterations
- Types of Physical and Pattern Evidence
- Imprints/Indentations, striations, damage, exchange of evidence
- Lines, shapes, minute details
- Bloodstain, fire burns, positional, glass fractures, injury patterns
- Question Documents
- Imprints/Indentations, striations, damage, exchange of evidence
- Types of Biological Evidence
- Suspected blood evidence
- Presumptive tests for blood
- Other presumptive tests
- Seminal/Vaginal
- Hairs
- DNA
- Other
- Sexual Assault Kit, Toxicology Kit and Medical Examiner’s Kit
- Suspected blood evidence
- Bloodstain pattern recognition
- Interpretation / Analysis
- Bloodstain mechanics
- Documentation / Photography
- Firearms
- Firearms classifications
- Safe handling of firearms
- Ammunition / Calibers / NIBIN and IBIS
- Trajectory
- Muzzle to target distance
- Pellet Patterns
- Cylinder and muzzle flash patterns
- Gun Shot Residue
- Use of UV/IR photography
- Arson / Explosives
- Role of Crime Scene Investigators at an arson scene with and without a deceased victim
- Drugs
- Over-the-Counter
- Prescription
- Narcotic versus non-narcotic
- Illicit Drugs
- Safe handling
- Fentanyl and new fentanyl analogs
- Narcan
- Collection of Evidence and Packaging
- How to properly handle, collect and preserve different types of evidence
- Bloodstain exercise
Day Three:
Photography
- Cardinal Rules
- Photo Identifier and documentation forms
- 18% gray card
- Overall, Midrange, and close-up photographs
- Photographing wounds, bodies and sensitive areas
- Exposure Stops
- Exposure Variables
- Shutter speed, f-stops, ISO, metering, motion and light
- Exposure Modes
- Manual Exposure, Program Exposure, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority
- Challenging scenes (weather conditions, backlit areas, extreme darkness, etc.)
- Use of Flashes and oblique lighting
- The Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Ultraviolet Light
- Infrared Light
- Visible Light Fluorescence
- Alternate Light Sources, Infrared Light Sources, Lasers and other technology
- Photography exercise
Death Investigations and scene processing
- Manner of Death
- Homicide versus Suicide
- Rigor Mortis, Livor Mortis, Putrefaction, etc.
- Entomology
- Injuries and wound types
- Antemortem versus Postmortem
- Autopsy procedures
Day Four:
Fingerprints and Latent Processing Techniques
- What are fingerprints?
- Types of fingerprints: Patent, Latent and plastic prints
- Porous, non-porous and semiporous surfaces
- Other surfaces (sticky side tape, cardboard, wood, etc.)
- Processes and Procedures used to Develop Latent Prints
- Photographing the fingerprint
- Digital photography methods
- UV/IR methods and technology
- Lifting with various mediums (tape, gel lifters, glue, etc.)
- Basic latent print development exercises
Report writing
- What is important and what is not necessary
Depositions / Trials / Preparing to testify
- CSI Effect
- Courtroom tips and pitfalls
- Trial video clips
Day Five:
- Mock Crime Scene
- Scenario details
- Analysis of the scene
- Photographs
- Identify pertinent evidence
- Sketch/Measurements
- Process the evidence for latent prints and/or DNA
- Write a report for the mock crime scene
- Submit the report, the sketch and any notes to the instructor
** Attendees are encouraged to bring any digital camera equipment normally issued by their agency. All other equipment and forensic supplies will be provided.
This course has been approved for 40 hours of certification/recertification training credits by the IAI Crime Scene Certification Board, 9 hours of credits for the Tenprint Certification Board, 8 hours of certification credits only for the Latent Print Certification board, & 18 hours of credit by the Forensic Photography Certification Board.
LODGING
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Colorado Springs Central
105 N Spruce Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80905
719-424-4300
Room Rate: $121 per night single/double occupancy
Amenities: Free Breakfast, Free Wi-Fi, Free Parking
Booking Info: Please call the hotel and mention the CSI Training to make your hotel registration at the special (lower than GSA) rate.
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Colorado Springs Central
105 N Spruce Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80905
719-424-4300
Room Rate: $121 per night single/double occupancy
Amenities: Free Breakfast, Free Wi-Fi, Free Parking
Booking Info: Please call the hotel and mention the CSI Training to make your hotel registration at the special (lower than GSA) rate.
REGISTRATION
To register for this course, please download the Course Registration Form (PDF file). Fill out the form and email the completed PDF file to Phil Sanfilippo at phil@tritechusa.com.
To register for this course, please download the Course Registration Form (PDF file). Fill out the form and email the completed PDF file to Phil Sanfilippo at phil@tritechusa.com.