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Course detail: Applied Crime Scene Investigation: Tools, Techniques, and Lab Integration

This training is designed to expose law enforcement, crime scene, and forensic practitioners to the applications, methods, and skillsets utilized to conduct a scene investigation. Scene investigations can be simple or overly complex and may require a significant level of skill and/or specialized equipment. This course will prepare the student to recognize and interpret when and how to employ best practices to ensure accurate documentation, collection, and preservation of crime scene evidence and analytical data. The student will also be introduced to several pieces of advanced equipment and analytical applications, which are available throughout the state of KS. This introduction is designed to help the student understand and recognize when these tools may be beneficial to their investigations, and whom they can contact to facilitate accessing and using these investigative applications to produce a better investigative work product.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Effectively manage crime scenes using established best practices and documentation methods.
Apply photography, diagramming, and scanning techniques to accurately record scene details.
Select appropriate methods for collecting, preserving, and packaging evidence in accordance with KBI and lab standards.
Identify when to utilize advanced forensic tools and state resources, and know how to access them.
Perform practical techniques in latent print processing, casting, and tool mark documentation.
Understand lab expectations to improve the quality and success of evidence submissions.
Incorporate foundational knowledge of firearms, trace evidence, presumptive testing, and BPA into investigative work.

Core Competency:

Participants will be able to employ best practices and discipline standards to ensure legal resolution of a criminal investigation.

Who Should Attend:

Law Enforcement Officers
Crime Scene Investigators
Forensic Practitioners

Fitness Requirements and Expectation of Physical Risk: Low Active

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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 at: 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.