Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Level 1

This course aims to provide: 

1. Full training in digital photography, based around the personal issue camera equipment and Force Protocols of each student
2. Training in scene approach, examination order, evidential collection, fingerprint recognition and recovery, exhibit packaging & storage
3. Best practice approaches to evidence recording and recovery, linking in where possible with specific force protocols

This course will include the following topics: 

• Understand the role of the CSI and its relation to other key police roles
• Derive a suitable assessment of risk, both personally and to identified evidence types, and make appropriate adjustments and mitigations
• Demonstrate clear capability in identifying, seizing, packaging and storing core evidence types (powder and elimination fingerprints, DNA, footprints, trace material)
• Demonstrate the ability to take photographic images suitable for record and evidential photography
• Understand the National Intelligence Model, appreciate the critical importance of intelligence gathering and assessment and demonstrate interpersonal skills
• 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