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Course Description: This course is designed to assist the new investigator or the patrol officer who has to manage a felony investigation. The qualities of a successful investigator will be identified and discussed. The preliminary and follow-up, investigative steps that apply to the majority of investigations will be broken down and systematically examined. Crime scene […]

Course Description: This class will focus on investigative steps needed for missing people and no body homicide cases. Victimology, searching for the victim, electronic trails, external resources for law enforcement, searches, warrant preparation, suspect development, proving the victim is dead, common features of no body murder cases, investigations and prosecutions of murders without bodies, and […]

Course Description: This class will discuss supervisor responsibilities for responding to death and homicide scenes and follow-up investigative requirements. Areas of discussion will include who is initially notified, who decides the response, how are resources requested/deployed, internal resources, external local LEO resources, external state specialized resources, external federal specialized resources, assistance from non-law enforcement agencies, […]

Course Description: This two-day course will introduce participants to current best practices regarding documenting, describing and reconstructing the flight path of bullets (projectiles) and provide clear insights into what might be learned on a scene involving a shooting. Analysis of shell casings, bullet evidence and trajectory can often provide immediate investigative leads while still on […]