​Instructor: Shelley Dill, MS, CCSA
Course length: 40 hours

This five-day (40 hour) Crime Scene Investigations course is intended for crime scene investigators/forensic technicians and detectives/investigators who are called upon to process crime scenes.  Patrol officers who do not normally process crime scenes will benefit from this course especially if and when they are called upon to preserve and process a crime scene because the crime scene response personnel are unavailable.  This course is not intended for those who have taken an advanced crime scene course except as a refresher.
 
This is a hands-on course designed to familiarize those mentioned above with the basic technical skills needed to identify, document, preserve, and collect the most common types of evidence found at crime scenes. Students will learn the proper steps on how to approach, document, and process a variety of crime scenes.  Students will have the opportunity to participate in numerous practical exercises to establish a baseline knowledge in everything from crime scene documentation with a mock scene, shooting trajectory, bloodstain pattern analysis, and more.  A good portion of this training will focus on digital and ALS photography and on fingerprint processing techniques utilizing a variety of chemicals and forensic light sources. 
 
Below are some of the topics that will be covered in class.
  • Role of a Crime Scene/Forensic Technician
  • Initial Response for LEOs/EMS/CSIs
  • Types of Scenes and Different Approaches to Processing of Each
  • Physical Evidence, Pattern Evidence, and Material Evidence
  • Evidence and Biological Evidence Recognition, Collection, and Packaging
  • Sketch and Measurement Methods
  • Question Documents
  • Firearms, Ammunition, and Trajectory Reconstruction
  • Death Investigation with Entomology and Anthropology
  • Bloodstain Pattern Recognition and Documentation
  • Photography and Alternate Light Source Photography relating to the Crime Scene Investigator
  • Fingerprints and Development Methods
  • Report Writing
  • Preparing for Depositions and Trials 

** 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 by the Tenprint Certification Board, 8 hours of certification credits only by the Latent Print Certification board, and 18 hours of credit by the Forensic Photography Certification Board.
Shelley Dill, MS, CCSA
Shelley Dill holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA) in Sociology with a concentration in Criminal Justice and a Political Science minor from Westminster College in Pennsylvania in 1999.  After college she worked as a Juvenile Probation Officer for seven years.  During that time, she attended two Probation and Parole Academies and the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  In 2006, she was hired as a Crime Scene Technician with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office in Pensacola, Florida.  In 2014, she attended Troy University and earned a Master of Science in Criminal Justice.

As an adjunct instructor for Pensacola State College, Ms. Dill developed and instructed courses such as Advanced Crime Scene, Crime Scene Safety, Introduction to Criminalistics, Biological Evidence, Crime Scene Photography I, and Crime Scene Photography II.  Ms. Dill has utilized the skills she learned over the years in the forensic field to instruct crime scene technician trainees, deputies, cadets and District One Medical Examiner Investigators on crime scene techniques and photography.  She has written and co-authored numerous policies, manuals, grants and proposals for her agency.  Ms. Dill has focused the last few years on photography and chemical processing techniques for fingerprint development and has been instrumental in obtaining new technology for the agency.

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