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Managing Death Investigations
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| General Description |
This week long training session is designed to serve as a basic and intermediate level course for officers who are responsible for managing death investigations. Numerous case studies will be used to illustrate instructional points throughout the course. Topics covered will include the following: familiarization with the Medical Examiner’s role in a death investigation; the forensic autopsy; approaching the death scene from the standpoint of the first officer at the scene; mitochondrial DNA; postmortem changes; cause and manner of death; blunt force trauma; wounds from edged weapons; bloodstain pattern analysis; gunshot wounds; suicides/equivocal deaths; autoerotic deaths; asphyxia and drowning; and the specifics of managing a death investigation. Students in this course will also examine investigative tools, such as criminal investigative analysis, to help identify unknown offenders or provide investigative leads in particularly challenging cases. |
| Class Information |
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73 seats of 75 total student seats are occupied for this class. |