ADVANCED CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATIONS
MAY 2 - 4, 2022 | SUGAR LAND, TX
This course has been approved for 24 hours of certification/recertification training credit by the IAI Crime Scene Certification Board.
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Instructor:
Amy Santoro, MS, CBPA, CSCSA Location: Sugar Land Police Department 1200 Highway 6 Sugar Land, TX 77478 Hours: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Tuition: $498.00 This course is presented in partnership with the International Association for Identification. |
Advanced Crime Scene Investigations
This three-day (24-hour) course is designed for crime scene investigators, technicians, and detectives who have a moderate level of experience working in the field of crime scene investigations.
Topics:
Day 1: Advanced Biological Evidence Processing (8 hours):
Day 2: Processing Sexual Assault Scenes: Beyond the Bedsheets (8 hours):
Day 3: Processing Major Scenes (8 hours):
This three-day (24-hour) course is designed for crime scene investigators, technicians, and detectives who have a moderate level of experience working in the field of crime scene investigations.
Topics:
Day 1: Advanced Biological Evidence Processing (8 hours):
- Students will learn the scientific underpinnings of presumptive and confirmatory tests for blood, semen, and saliva. Students will learn how to better explain the reactions while testifying in a court of law. (lecture)
- Implementing a non-destructive blood searching workflow: students will learn the best way to process scenes when searching for latent blood to ensure the best possible sample is collected for DNA analysis (lecture and hands on)
- Students will evaluate complex overlapping bloodstain patterns and evaluate stains for collection (lecture and hands on)
- Students will earn about sequential processing with regard to biological evidence and chemical enhancement
Day 2: Processing Sexual Assault Scenes: Beyond the Bedsheets (8 hours):
- Building on the skills they learned on day one, students will learn about processing major sexual assault crime scenes, including scenes from prolonged/consistent sexual abuse.
- Students will learn how to systematically search and process evidence for the presence of seminal fluid with the goal of selecting the best stains for laboratory DNA analysis and streamlining the evidence submission process (lecture and hands on)
- Students will learn about advanced on-scene dead body processing in sexually motivated homicides, including developing latent prints from human skin
Day 3: Processing Major Scenes (8 hours):
- Students will learn how to prepare for mass fatality scenes (including homicides of multiple persons/mass shootings)
- Students will learn a systematic approach for dealing with bullet damage in major crime scenes, including scenes with multiple areas of damage on various substrates. A methodology for tracing bullet flight path and "road mapping" corresponding damage will be discussed.
- Students will learn how to evaluate potential firearms evidence on scene, how to evaluate fired projectiles to associate them to areas of damage present within the scene, and how to triage evidence for forensic laboratory analysis, and how to triage evidence to gather information about the minimum number of firearms involved in an event
- Advanced persons processing lecture: discussion about processing witnesses, suspects, and victims as it relates to sexual assaults and homicides. Topics will include sequential processing of potential shooters and ALS photography of assault victims (to document trace and biological evidence as well as latent/healed injuries).
LODGING
Drury Inn & Suites Houston Sugar Land
13770 Southwest Freeway
Sugar Land, TX 77478
281-277-9700
Room Rate: $114 per night | single/double/triple/quad occupancy
Amenities: Free Breakfast. Free Wi-Fi, Free Parking
Booking Info: Call 800-325-0720 and mention Group #2457015 to receive the special rate.
Drury Inn & Suites Houston Sugar Land
13770 Southwest Freeway
Sugar Land, TX 77478
281-277-9700
Room Rate: $114 per night | single/double/triple/quad occupancy
Amenities: Free Breakfast. Free Wi-Fi, Free Parking
Booking Info: Call 800-325-0720 and mention Group #2457015 to receive the special 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.