Introduction to Advanced Crime Scenes - “From Scene to Courtroom”
Date(s) - Sunday, March 5 - Thursday, March 16, 2023
Time(s) 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Location:
MLEOTA
3791 Hwy 468 W
Pearl, MS 39208
Introduction into Advanced Crime Scenes- “From Scene to Courtroom”
This course, which is being offered on the grounds of the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers' Training Academy (MLEOTA), was designed, and implemented to train law enforcement officers in the field of advanced crime scene investigations by studying and understanding the de-compositional changes of the human body and immediate area when processing an outdoor scene in which a crime of violence is suspected.
This course will help students develop investigative techniques by introducing them to the proper procedures for assessing, processing, evaluating and cataloguing various items of evidence at crime scenes. These items include fingerprint processing and collection, crime scene management protocols, DNA evidence recovery/packaging & storage principals, etc. Students will be introduced to bloodstain pattern interpretation, along with presumptive blood identification techniques.
In this course, students will be instructed on recognition of known and unknown patterned injuries involving various causes of death to include gunshot wounds, incised/stab wounds, blunt-force trauma injuries. Students will also be introduced to cases involving infanticide, as well as prolicide (death of human offspring).
Students will be introduced to procedures dealing with scattered human remains in remote or wooded areas. Students will learn protocols and equipment needed to properly identify, probe, mark, excavate and process clandestine burial sites, including the exhumation of buried remains.
Instructors for this course include forensic crime scene technicians and evidence technicians from the Mississippi Forensic Laboratory, along with licensed/certified board-approved anthropologist, licensed/certified board-approved pathologist, as well as a graduate of the National Forensic Academy-(Internationally known as the renowned ‘Body Farm’) located at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. The class will conclude with legal advice and case preparation from the Madison/Rankin District Attorney’s Office.
This specialized training provides a unique opportunity for law enforcement officers throughout the state to gain invaluable medical, legal and educational experience involving outdoor violent crime scene investigations. As part of the MLEOTA Outdoor Training & Observation Research (MOTOR) program, this training course is the only one of its kind offered anywhere in the State of Mississippi.
MLEOTA- “Second to None”
Introduction to Advanced Crime Scene application.pdf
Students report to MLEOTA on Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 5:00 P.M.
This course is directed to police and sheriff departments.
On a “first-come, first-serve” basis. This class will fill quickly.
Class is limited to 35 students.
Cost: $600.00/per student
Contact: Mr. Greg Eklund
Phone (601) 933-2101
Fax (601) 933-2200
Email: GEklund@dps.ms.gov