HOMICIDE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (Part I)

POST Approved Provider Peace Officer Continuing Education:

{2 hours Legal, 2 hours Interpersonal, and 3 hours Technical}

 

July 17, 2008

 

Topics to be covered include:

 

1.      The basic elements of homicide investigation;

2.      Preliminary scene investigation and information obtainable from the body;

3.      Collection and preservation of scene evidence;

4.      The use of crime scene photography;

5.      How crime scene sketches are useful;

6.      Interview and interrogation;

7.      Blood and DNA (What it can tell you.);

8.      Suicide investigation; and

9.      Human identification techniques.

 

Sponsor:  Meadowbrook Insurance Group and the Marshall Police Department.

 

Method of Presentation: PowerPoint presentations using actual case examples.

 

Text Supplied: As part of the course, each participant will be provided with the book , “Homicide Investigation” as a reference to the lecture presentations.  The book on CD-ROM format contains 21 chapters and appended works on related topics like “Criminal Interviews and Interrogations” that will be helpful to any investigator.

 

Who Attends? Those attending in the past include police and sheriff’s personnel, state police and highway patrol, detectives, federal law enforcement and special agents, military police investigators, private sector investigators, and attorneys from Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, and Kentucky. 

 

Date and Times: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Thursday July 17, 2008

 

Location: Marshall Police Department           For course questions or to register

                  461 W. Arrow                                contact Chief James Simmerman at 660-

                  Marshall, Mo. 65340                      886-7411 or e-mail to mpd@cdsinet.net.

 

Instructor: James Simmerman, Marshall Chief of Police, former St. Louis Homicide Detective and Chief Investigator for the St. Louis Medical Examiner. He has taught criminal justice, management, and forensic courses at several colleges and universities, and presented hundreds of seminars on homicide and forensic death investigation.

Course Fee: $100 (Payable in advance) to:

 

 Creative Management Consultants

1460 Broad Moor Lane, Marshall, Mo. 65340 

660-886-7411 (Day) or 660-886-7984 (Evenings) mpd@cdsinet.net (e-mail)

 

REGISTRATION FORM

(Early registration is recommended)

 

Name of Attendee	Organization, address, and phone number	e-mail address

 

July 17, 2008

 

(Reservations should be received by July 14^th.)

 

Training is downstairs. Call if you require a special accommodation.

[Let us know if you need an invoice or wish to pay by purchase order.]

 

Mail registration form and check payable and forward payment to:

 Creative Management Consultants

1460 Broad Moor Lane

Marshall, Missouri 65340