Crime Scene Investigation Training

Courses available in 8 hour, 16 hour, and 24 hour formats

Comprehensive Crime Scene Investigation

Comprehensive Crime Scene Investigation

Crime Scene Forensics,LLC

The fascinating
world of forensic
science...made
simple

Crime Scene courses include training manual, certificate of completion, and complimentary copy of
Crime Scene Forensics - Crime Scene Technician Edition Field Guide

This intensive course is designed to incorporate as much practical information as possible in a short
course format. We are mindful of personnel shortages that adversely affect departments when
members are taken away from normal patrol responsibilities to attend necessary training. Therefore,
we have designed a course that will limit time away from patrol duties, while still presenting a great
deal of material in a practical setting.

Comprehensive Crime Scene Investigations is designed to be largely "hands on" and will address
crime scene investigations from beginning to end. Students will have the opportunity to document
mock crime scenes through photography, note taking, and sketching; create blood spatter and blood
stains; swab blood stains for DNA testing; properly package evidence, and process items for latent
prints. A brief overview on how prints are compared will also be presented.

Comprehensive Crime Scene Investigations is a basic level course for patrol officers and new
detectives with limited experience in crime scene investigations. This course will adequately prepare
attendees to begin processing crime scenes on a basic level, and will provide a knowledge base for
taking advanced level courses.

Topics Include:

Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction
      - Coping with the "CSI Effect"
      - Basic observations
      - Recognizing evidence and elements of the crime
      - Documenting crime scenes
      - "The Ever Expanding Crime Scene" - finding evidence outside the crime scene tape

Crime Scene Photography
      - Composing photos
      - Properly documenting the scene through photography
      - Photographing evidence
      - Using macro lenses
      - Photographing injuries
      - Photographing latent prints
      - Photographing blood stain patterns
      - Overcoming the fears of Digital Imaging

Fingerprint Evidence
      - Surfaces
      - Processing evidence for latent prints
      - Overview of fingerprint classification
      - Overview of fingerprint comparisons

Bloodstain Patterns
      - Properties of blood
      - Using Blood Enhancing Reagents
      - Identifying Bloodstains
      - Documenting bloodstain patterns
      - Documenting bloody clothing

DNA Evidence

o Organize the tasks necessary to establish order and security at a crime scene
o Identify both scientific and non scientific evidence at a crime scene
o Understand the importance of physical evidence in the regard in which it corroborates or
refutes the information developed during the investigation
o Understand the limitations of forensic science and modern technology
o Develop a general understanding of DNA evidence, including its proper collection
o Understand the correlation between physical evidence from the crime scene and
informational evidence developed during the investigation
o Properly document a crime scene through the use of notes and diagrams
o Properly record a crime scene through the use of photography; students will be able to take
properly composed photographs at correct exposures
o Properly record inked fingerprints
o Properly secure latent prints from various items
o Develop an understanding of basic fingerprint patterns and the matter in which they are
classified and compared
o Develop a basic understanding of blood stains as they appear at a crime scene
o Develop an understanding of the dynamics of liquid blood in motion