Instructor: Kasey Buckner Brager, CCSA, CFWE
Course length: 24 hours

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As investigators, we are taught how to document and collect footwear and tire tread impressions at crime scenes but we are not taught how those techniques affect the comparison results. That is where this class is different than your typical basic footwear and tire tread documentation and collection class. This class will teach the proper skills needed and explain how improper techniques will hinder the comparison results.
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This comprehensive 3-day, 24-hour course is designed to give investigators the knowledge and skills needed to properly document, collect and preserve 3D and 2D footwear and tire tread impressions to ensure the best results from the comparison examination. It is intended for new and experienced crime scene investigators and law enforcement officers. This course is a combination of lectures and hands on activities that will cover basic detection, collection and preservation techniques along with tips and tricks for difficult latent impressions that are often found on crime scenes. The hands-on activities will cover a variety of scene scenarios and enhancement processes that can be used on scenes and in the lab. This course will also discuss the importance of proper detection, collection and preservation techniques and how each will affect the comparison examination if not done correctly.

Course Topics:

• History of Footwear Impressions
• Types of Impressions
• Scene Documentation
• Photography of 3D and 2D Impressions
• Secondary Recovery of 3D and 2D Impressions
• Chemical Enhancement
• Other Information from Tire Track Evidence
• Other Information from Footwear Impressions
• Importance of Proper Techniques
• Information Needed for Examiner

 
What to Bring to the Course:

Casual attire is suitable and a laptop computer would be highly recommended. Please bring a digital camera with external flash, shutter remote, tripod and polarizing filter. If available, please bring an electrostatic dust lifter with milar film.
 
Course Outline

Day 1

• Welcome and Introductions
• History of Footwear Impressions
• Types of Impressions
• Documentation of Impressions at Scene
• Photography
• 3D Impression Scene Documentation and Photography Hands-on Activity

 

Day 2

• Secondary Recovery 3D
• 3D Impression - Photography and Casting Hands-on Activity
• Secondary Recovery 2D
• 2D Impression - Photography and Secondary Recovery Hands-on Activity        
• Chemical Enhancement on scene and in lab

 

Day 3

• Review of chemicals
• Chemical Enhancement Hands-on Activity
• Tire tread Information
• Photography and Secondary Recovery of Tire Tread Hands-on Activity
• Examiner Information
• Summary of Class

​Kasey Buckner Brager, CCSA, CFWE

Holding a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Florida Gulf Coast University and her Associate in Science degree in Crime Scene Technology from Keiser University, Kasey Buckner Brager is a Certified Footwear Examiner, Certified Crime Scene Analyst and Latent Print Examiner for the Cape Coral Police Department.

​She is a Certified Footwear Examiner and Certified Crime Scene Analyst through the International Association of Identification (IAI). She serves as the Region 6 Director for the Florida Division of the International Association of Identification (FDIAI), Chairperson of the FDIAI Science and Practices Crime Scene Subcommittee and serves on the Advisory Board for Keiser University Fort Myers. 

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