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Course detail: Intermediate Crime Scene Processing and Investigations
Course Description:
This training is designed for patrol officers or detectives who want to learn more advanced methods of processing crime scenes. The class will focus on recovering fingerprints, pry marks, and shoe tracks, and locating and collecting DNA. The instructors will use methods and products that are affordable to any agency, limiting the need for expensive equipment.
This training is very hands-on. The first day will consist of classroom time with hands-on practicals to follow. The second day is a half day with mock crime scenes. At the end of the first day, there will be a test to ensure the officer/detective knows the skills taught that day. On the second-day mock crime scenes will be a pass/fail methodology.
This training is NOT a photography class, bloodstain pattern analysis, or shooting reconstruction class. Instead, this training aims to inform the participant that evidence can be collected from many items that one might not typically think to process.
Trainers will provide all materials for the practicals and hands-on activities. Participants can bring a camera, but this is not a photography class.
Core Competency:
- Participants will employ best practices as they investigate any crime from its beginning to its eventual disposition, either as an individual or as part of an investigatory team.
Course Objectives:
- Practice recovering prints off of paper, sticky side of tape, curved surfaces, porous surfaces
- Select appropriate methods and techniques to recover prints
- Collect pry marks
- Collect shoe and tire tracks in mud, on tile, on wood, and doors
- Experiment with an affordable alternate light source to look for biological fluids
- Apply proper technique in collecting DNA from a known person and off items of evidence
Instructional Methods:
- Lecture
- Scenario
- Mock Crime Scene
Who Should Attend:
- Officers who aspire to be detectives
- Patrol Officers, especially from smaller agencies
- Detectives who would like a refresher
Course Requirements:
- 100% Participation and Attendance
- Written test and mock crime scene test
Notice of Availability of the KLETC Annual Security and Fire Safety Report:
The University of Kansas has determined that the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) main campus in Hutchinson and its regional sites in Dodge City, Hays, and Parsons are separate campuses. This determination was made in consultation with the Department of Education. The report is available online t: https://civilrights.ku.edu/clery.
The report contains information regarding campus safety and security including topics such as: campus law enforcement authority; crime reporting policies; campus alerts (Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications); fire safety policies and procedures; programs to prevent sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking; the procedures the institution will follow when one of these crimes is reported; and other matters of importance related to security on campus. The report also contains information about crime statistics for the three most recent calendar years concerning reported crimes that occurred On-Campus; in On-Campus Student Housing Facilities; in Non-Campus buildings or property owned or controlled by the institution or a recognized student organization; and on Public Property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus. The report also contains fire statistics for any fires occurring in an On-Campus Student Housing Facility during the three most recent calendar years.
A paper copy of the report will be provided upon request. If you would like to receive a paper copy, you can request that a copy be mailed to you by calling 785-864-6414 or emailing civilrights@ku.edu or arrange for pick-up at a KLETC location.
