40 Hour Crime Scene Investigator 1 - Sycamore

• Crime scene management and the 7 step crime scene process
• Crime scene photography
• Crime scene sketching, diagramming, and animation
• Forensic Laboratory Sections/Disciples
• Evidence recognition, handling, packaging, and submission
• Firearm/ballistic evidence, IBIS and NIBIN technology
• Trace and toolmark evidence
• Footwear/tire track castings
• Latent fingerprints and AFIS technology
• Biological evidence/DNA and CODIS technology.
• Search warrants and consent to search
• Advances in evidence technology
• Report-writing
• Scenario Based Training and Tabletop Exercises.
• 5 Practical Scene Assessments - Vehicle Scene, Burglary Scene, Shooting/Ballistics Scene, Photography Practical and Crime Scene with a victim body.

• Demonstrate the basic use of their department's 35 mm and digital cameras.
• Recover latent fingerprints, footwear impressions, and tire track impressions from crime scenes.
• Process a recovered stolen vehicle and document the evidence recovered through photographs.
• Demonstrate through a variety of practical exercises how to write reports, package a variety of types of evidence, and explain what the lab capabilities are in relation to the types of evidence collected.
• Demonstrate the use of Mikrosil on tool marks and impression evidence.
• Identify the forensic specialty that will analyze the evidence collected at a scene.
• Proficiently photograph a burglary scene using four different ranges that depict the location of specific evidence at the scene.
• Determine the need for and limitations of search warrants and consents to search.
• Perform presumptive field tests used to determine the presence of blood.
• Complete the 7 steps of processing a crime scene, from beginning to end on a shooting scene.
• Complete the 7 steps of processing a crime scene, from beginning to end on a crime scene with a victim body and multiple disciples of evidence.
• Complete swabbing of firearms and multiple stains for Biology and DNA evidence.

This course has been certified by the ILETSB and approved to meet the following mandates:

• Civil Rights - 1.0 hour.
• Const. Use of LE Authority – 3.0 hours.
• Legal Updates - 1.0 hour.
• Officer Wellness/Mental Health – 1 hour.
• Procedural Justice – 2.5 hours.
• Law Concerning Stops, Searches, and The Use of Force – 1.0 hour / .5 hours scenario based.
• Officer Safety Techniques, Including Cover, Concealment, and Time – 2.0 hours / 1 hour scenario based.
• Lead Homicide Investigator – 40 hours.

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