Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Level 2

The course will provide a rapid refreshment on best practice approaches to evidence recovery, before addressing more advanced issues of wider scene logistics and management.

The Course Aims: 

1. To develop skills in intelligence gathering, assessment and dissemination
2. Improve competences in videography, specialist imaging techniques and niche evidence recovery
3. Assess new and existing practical skills with a final courtroom exercise

Course Modules will include: 

• Understand basic forensic strategy formulation and the role of the CSI at serious and major crime
• Prioritise welfare requirements and action dynamic risk assessments on developing crime scenes
• Demonstrate a clearly established capability in identifying, seizing, packaging and storing core evidence types (powder and elimination fingerprints, DNA, trace material)
• Demonstrate the ability to select and safely operate appropriate alternative light sources for a range of evidence search procedures, and the ability to capture these lit scenes photographically
• Understand the National Intelligence Model and appreciate the critical importance of intelligence gathering
  and assessment
• Demonstrate interpersonal skills as part of an intelligence gathering exercise
• Demonstrate the ability to produce clear, well-lit and well composed crime scene videos with a well-developed
  narrative of coverage
• Demonstrate the ability to supplement these videos with live narrative feedback in a major incident briefing scenario
• Develop a basic understanding of a range of niche evidence types (trace evidence types, DNA, bone identification) and to understand the role of the CSI at scenes
• Demonstrate an understanding of the role of the CSI in court with regard to volume crime scenes