Certified Evidence Collection Specialist (CECS)

This program will provide training and assistance in the proper procedures for the detection, collection, documentation, and preservation of all aspects of physical evidence. Topics will include Safety, Handling of Evidence, Documentation, Proper Packaging of all Types of Physical Evidence, Chain of Custody Issues, Evidence Definitions; Physical Evidence Forms for State Laboratory requests, and Agency Policy elements. Mock evidence of all types will be presented for the students to have hands-on training. Extracting physical evidence from your "old cold cases" will also be discussed. Feel free to bring your evidence questions or problems to our course to solve and discuss.

 

500 Series Certification
Minimum Experience: 5 years
Certification Exam: Required
Minimum Requirement: 9 units

Topics covered during this certification program include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Basics of Crime Scene Examinations

• Forensics For A Better Case

• Basics of The Crime Scene and/or Identification Section Manager

• Coming up to Standards for Agency Accreditation

• Crime Laboratory Evidence Examination and Documentation

• ABCs of a New Crime Scene and/or Latent Print UNIT Equipment, Personnel, and Facility

• Latent Print Chemical Processing

• Latent Print Lifting Techniques

• Report Writing for the Forensic Examiner

• ABCs of Evidence Preservation, Custody, and Laboratory Examinations

• Property and Evidence Management

• Crime Scene Techniques for the Correction Officer

• Forensic Light Source Examination (Includes Detection, Collection, and Preservation of Light Source Physical Evidence)

• Courtroom Demeanor for the Forensic Witness