This five-day Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Applied Science and Practice course is designed to provide theory and practical skills for DVI Specialist investigations.
This course will cover these main topics:
- Mass fatalities management and DVI
- Antemortem investigation
- Human skeletal anatomy
- Disaster scene coordination
- Mapping the scene, specialist recording techniques
- Recognition, Identification, and recovery of burnt remains
- Completion of Interpol DVI antemortem and post-mortem forms
- DVI scene and mortuary exercises
- Specialist advice on collection of DNA samples from fragmented remains
This five-day Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Applied Science and Practice course is designed to provide theory and practical skills for DVI Specialist investigations.
The aims of the course are to provide:
- An awareness of the processes involved in Disaster Victim Identification
- Practical experience of recovering remains from a mass disaster scene, examining remains in the mortuary, and
completing the Interpol DVI forms
- Instruction on best practice for recording, recovering and identifying fragmented, commingled and burnt remains from mass fatality incidents
- Advice on selection and collection of DNA samples from highly disrupted and burnt remains