Instructor: Peter Striupaitis, MS -
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Peter Striupaitis, MS Peter “Pete” Striupaitis is a Firearm/Tool Mark Examiner, Trainer/Educator and Forensic Firearm and Toolmark Consultant. He has been employed and worked in the field of Firearm and Toolmark Identification for almost thirty-nine (39) years. Pete retired from the Illinois State Police (ISP), Forensic Sciences Command, where he performed various duties from 1980 to 2003. He trained a total of seventeen (17) individuals in firearm identification (at ISP, South Bend, IN and NIRCL laboratories.) Pete also instructed approximately 100 graduate students in the UIC/ISP-MS Graduate Program/Residency). He worked with the South Bend, IN Police Department as a trainer and firearm examiner from 2003-2006 and had a position with the Northeastern Illinois Regional Crime Laboratory, Vernon Hills, IL from 2006-2012 as a Firearm Examiner and Training Coordinator. Pete was a Graduate Program Instructor at the MS in Forensic Science (FS) Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1993-2003 and taught at Roosevelt University in the undergraduate FS course in Chicago, IL from 2009-2010. He has conducted many training/classes for many law enforcement agencies, to include the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives - National Firearms Academy from 1999-2009, and has lectured and given forensic science presentations to many universities, colleges, junior colleges and civic organizations. Pete also was involved in training of firearm/toolmark examiners in Ascencion, Paraguay in March of 2011 and Columbo, Sri Lanka from April to May of 2011 for the International Crime Investigation Program. Pete has written and published several articles in firearm and toolmark identification. He had the special opportunity to give a pivotal, presentation in firearm/toolmark identification at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Washington, DC, in April of 2007. He has received several awards and commendations from various law enforcement agencies for his casework and service. Pete has been a Life-Active Member of the International Association for Identification (IAI) and has been active with the IAI for many years in several capacities and currently is on the IAI Editorial Review Board. He was a member of Illinois Division of the IAI. Pete also is a Fellow Member of the American Academy of Forensic Science. He is a Distinguished Member and past president (1999-2000) of the Association of Firearm and Toolmark Examiners (AFTE) and he was a charter member of the Scientific Working Group for Firearm and Toolmark Identification from 1999 to 2013. Pete also held a position as an Adjunct Professor in the MS Graduate Program in Firearm Identification at St. Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, Indiana in 2014-2015. Pete has worked private, firearm identification cases and he continues to consult, train and lecture. He also continues to attend the annual, AFTE seminars (in 2020, he will be attending his 35th seminar). |
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