Instructor: TBA
Course length: 40 hours
The initial response to the crime scene and its investigation will often dictate whether or not the crime being investigated will be solved. The Crime Scene Investigations course will prepare the student with improving his or her skills in documenting scenes, identifying, processing and collecting evidence from the scene, and will begin to prepare them to testify as to their findings. The course is intended for basic to intermediate level investigators and technicians who have limited on-the-job experience. New personnel and those currently working in the field of crime scene investigations for less than two years will benefit most from this course.
Topics will be presented in a lecture format that will be immediately followed by hands-on exercises that reinforce the learning of material presented in the lectures. Photography is an integral part of documenting a crime scene and the processing of evidence. Photography will be used throughout the week for all hands-on exercises. All photographs will be critiqued after each exercise. Each student will be required to bring a digital camera with lenses and tripod that they use at their department along with a high intensity flashlight.
The following topics will be covered:
Topics will be presented in a lecture format that will be immediately followed by hands-on exercises that reinforce the learning of material presented in the lectures. Photography is an integral part of documenting a crime scene and the processing of evidence. Photography will be used throughout the week for all hands-on exercises. All photographs will be critiqued after each exercise. Each student will be required to bring a digital camera with lenses and tripod that they use at their department along with a high intensity flashlight.
The following topics will be covered:
- Investigative equipment
- Photographic and lighting equipment
- Camera – manual mode, depth of field, ISO, file size, tripod
- Low light photography painting with light
- Steps investigating a crime scene from beginning to final walk through
- Scene diagramming
- Processing a vehicle
- Processing blood scenes using Amido Black, Leuco Crystal Violet and Bluestar
- Types of bloodstain patterns found at crime scenes and what made them
- The use of phenolphthalein
- Collection of DNA
- Investigation of cleaned up crime scenes
- Processing evidence using superglue, powder, ninhydrin
- Footwear evidence – locating, documenting and processing
- Casting footwear / tire impressions using dental stone
- Creating shoe and tire exemplars for examination by an analyst
- Creating and working a mock crime scene
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