IAI Crime Scene Certification and Recertification approved

MPOETC CLEE approved

Each day of training will include a hands-on session in a different forensic discipline. All supplies will be provided.

The training will consist of five days:

DayOne: Crime Scene Processing, 

·  Scene approach and management

· Scene Processing model

· Trace Evidence

·  Impression Evidence

Day Two: Latent Prints

·  location, collection, and documentation on the scene

· lab processing for friction ridge detail

· AFIS< IAFIS, NGI, and ACE-V explained

Day Three: Forensic Photography, · SLR, point and shoot, vs phone

· equipment, flashes, macro lens, and lens distortion

· basic photography techniques (shutter speed, aperture, ISO settings)

· scene documentation techniques

· evidence collection through photography (BPA, friction ridge detail, footwear, and tire impressions, etc.

· digital imaging      

Day Four: DNA and Forensic Biology

· serology

· presumptive testing

·understanding DNA evidence

· locating, documenting, and collecting

· Touch DNA,

Day Five: Death Investigation

· Natural, Accidental, Suicidal, Homicide, Undetermined

· scene processing

· algor, livor, and rigor mortis

· petechiae and similar remarkable bodily presentations to observe

· ligatures and suicidal versus homicidal indicators

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

· passive, projected, and transfer stains

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Hands-on practical exercises:

·tire, and shoe impressions to include casting

·toolmarks and Mikrosil casting

·latent print, location, dusting, lifting areas of ridge detail

·collecting known exemplars of finger and palm prints

· locating and collecting biological samples on multiple substrates and under multiple conditions

· using presumptive tests

· touchDNA collection (firearms)

· using an Alternate Light Source for scene and lab work (biological evidence and latent prints)

All materials are supplied.

IAI Crime Scene Certification and Recertification approved

MPOETC CLEE approved

The training will consist of five days:

Monday Advanced Latent Print

·         Of value vs. no value determination

Hands on practical in:

·         Enhancing prints in blood

·         Ninhydrin and porous surfaces

·         Cyanoacrylate (glue) fuming

·         Dye staining

Tuesday Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

·         Theoretical discussions

·         Physics and scientific principles

Hands-on Practical experiments using blood

·         Case studies

Wednesday Fire, Explosion, and Arson Scenes

·         Origin and Cause investigation

If the venue can support, we will complete an actual hands-on fire scene burn and scene processing

·         Evidence location and collection

·         Witness interviews

Thursday

Morning session: Shooting Scene Reconstruction

·   Detection, Documentation, and

·   Collection of ballistic

·   Hands –on scene reconstruction and determinations

Afternoon session: Advanced Forensic Photography

·   Advanced Forensic Photography

·   Use of filters: ND, Polarizing, etc

·   ISO

·   white balance

·   Advanced uses of flash EG: fill flash, bounce flash, oblique flash

Friday

Morning session: Advanced Death Investigation

•    Aquatic Deaths

•    Equivocal Death Investigations

Afternoon session: Forensic Pathology and Autopsy

•    Autopsy

•    Forensic Pathology and its potential determinations

•    Medico – Legal Death Investigation Process

MPOETC CLEE approved

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course on sex assault investigations will cover several important aspects with a variety of speakers.  Topics will include victim interviews, child and elder sex abuse, Childlines, drug-facilitated sex assaults, SANE nursing and sex assault kits, forensic interviews and physical exams of children, victim advocates, and human trafficking.  Also, trial, search warrants, testifying, and other legal issues, including deciphering the SAFER Act, will be discussed.

MPOETC CLEE approved

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‍ ‍COURSE OUTLINE:

‍ Day One: Sex Assault Investigations

‍ Overview and Investigations

‍ ·       Statistics

‍ ·       Barriers to rape reporting

‍ ·       HIPPA

‍ ·       Other Investigative Techniques

‍ ·       Pre-text phone calls

‍Childlines

·       SAFER Act

‍ ·       Child and Elder Sex Assault

‍ ‍ Sex Assault Evidence Collection Kits – Forensic Nursing

‍ ‍·       What can a SANE do for you

‍ ‍·       Forensic Nursing

‍ ‍·       Evidence collection

‍ ‍·       Anonymous Report Kits

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Day Two: Sex Assault Investigations

‍ ‍Child SA Investigative Assistance

·      Child Advocacy Centers

‍ ·     Children, Youth and Families, practice and protocol

·       Forensic Interviews

‍·       Physical Examinations

‍ Human Trafficking

‍· Recognizing and first steps

‍·    HT Task Forces, state and federal partners

‍ Working with Victims 

‍·      Rape Crisis Centers and Victim Advocates

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Drug-Facilitated Sex Assaults (DFSA)

‍·       Case Studies

‍·       Toxicology

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Day Three:  Sex Assault Investigations

‍ ‍Behavioral-Oriented Interview

‍·      Victim Interviewing through BOI

‍·      Understanding offender motivation

‍·  methodology of attack and offender actions

‍ ‍Legal Issues 

‍ ‍·       Search Warrants

‍ ‍·       Charging and Criminal Complaints

‍ ‍·       Testifying and Courtroom procedure

Serial Rapist Case Presentation‍

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All materials are supplied.‍ ‍

MPOETC CLEE approved

The following topics will be covered:

Cell Phone, Mobile Devices, and High Tech Crimes  

o   Smartphone and mobile device collection and data analysis to include the best practices to avoid remote data wipes.

Sex Assault Investigations -- (Child, Adult, and Special Victims). 

o   An overview into the investigations of sexual crimes to include: rape, child sex assaults, special victims; the role of victim advocates and Sex Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE).  We will also address the role of CYF, Child Advocacy Centers, and the Safer Act.

Using Technology and Advanced Investigative Techniques

o   This will explore the role and data from mobile devices. It includes warrants, apps, simple data retrieval (not forensic dump); as well as email, social media- warrants and gathering information. 

o   Recording phone conversations in investigations (beyond just drug investigations) and tracking devices.

OSINT: Social Media, Open Source, and Advanced Investigative Techniques 

o   Conducting searches on multiple social media platforms to include Facebook, X, Snapchat, Instagram. Exploring commonly used lesser known social media apps.

o   Advanced Google searches, and other readily accessible open-source resources for criminal investigations.

Death Investigations

o   Natural, Accidental, Suicidal, and Homicidal deaths

o   Roles of Corners, Medical Examiners, and Forensic Pathologists

o   Medico-legal death investigations, SUIDI and other infant deaths, and the investigative process

Forensics/Crime Scene Processing

o   Crime scene processing and the gathering of forensic evidence. This outlines DNA, fingerprints, trace, GSR, footwear, and other forensic disciplines. 

Interview and Interrogation

o   The different role of both interviewing and interrogating potential suspects. This includes best practices and time-honored techniques as well as legal issues.

Search Warrants

o   Search warrant writing and construction especially for difficult investigations. Specific attention to the affidavit of probable cause and current case law.

Trial preparation

o   This includes both the preparation of a case for trial as well as the art of testifying.  Specific attention will be given to cross-examination and testifying from the defense attorney mindset.

Trial Roundtable

o   An open Q&A with a career prosecutor, defense attorney, and Commonwealth Court Judge

Media Relations 

o   Working with the media, drafting a press release, conducting interviews, and press conferences.

All materials will be supplied