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Advanced Forensic Investigations for Hazardous Events

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This course provides participants with the essential skills to investigate a hazardous environment crime scene for the identification, documentation, presumptive forensic testing, collection, packaging, preservation, and transportation to the laboratory for analysis of hazardous environment forensic evidence. The course will address these areas by following the FBI 12-step crime scene management process as applied to a high consequence event (HCE). This will enable participants to properly collect evidence that may be used in a criminal prosecution. Finally, the course is intended to enhance the participants’ skills needed to provide expert testimony for the successful prosecution of the perpetrators of a criminal hazardous environment.

Course Objectives
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• Understand the course goal and major module objectives
• Discern and articulate the relevance of conducting a thorough crime scene investigation in the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (cbrne)/toxic industrial chemical (tic) environment
• Identify the components and responsibilities of a CBRNE crime scene investigation unit and describe the relationship to the FBI 12-step process for crime scene management.
• Define the different levels of PPE/CPC and identify the guidelines and limitations for the equipment
• Demonstrate their ability to employ evidence recovery sampling techniques at a CBRNE crime scene using the Sample Facilitator and Sample Collector technique
• Delineate the components of a fully documented crime scene and utilize available technology to create accurate scene and evidence documentation that can withstand courtroom scrutiny
• Receive an introduction to the CoBRA® software system, its peripherals, and its capabilities; then, participants will be given a practical exercise in which they will use CoBRA®

• Discuss, identify, and perform procedures for locating, prioritizing, documenting, and field–screening, processing, packaging, collecting, and preserving potential CBRNE/TIC-contaminated evidence at a hazardous environment crime scene in Level B Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) ensembles
• Recognize CBRNE/TIC agents and materials in terms of their precursors, composition, and materials necessary for their manufacture, and they will relate how the presence of these items will affect a crime scene investigation
• Identify the challenges of conducting a crime scene investigation of, and recovering CBRNE/TIC and other forensic evidence from, a CBRNE/TIC-contaminated environment
• Complete a comprehensive post-test
• Perform evidence recovery techniques in a hazardous environment crime scene while wearing appropriate PPE

Target Audience/Discipline
LE

Scheduling
Contact a NCBRT training coordinator today to schedule this course.

Min/Max Enrollment 20

Hours 40.0

Format Instructor-Led Training (Direct Delivery)

DHS Course # PER-228

Prerequisites
Has successfully completed an institutionally delivered, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) Awareness-level training course or higher