Crime Scene Management and Evidential Chain of Custody

Course Introduction

This Crime Scene Management and Evidential Chain of Custody training course is an excellent chance for law enforcement officers and staff who want to improve their ability to identify, secure, preserve, and manage crime scenes so that forensic opportunities are maximized, and evidence is gathered with integrity. It will explain the importance of adopting a clear and robust methodology when examining crime scenes, roles, and responsibilities of those crucial to the examination and how these fit into the overall criminal investigation at both strategic and tactical levels. It will deliver knowledge on cutting edge forensic techniques as well as showing how effective cooperation and collaboration with other law enforcement partners, scientists, experts, the public and the media can improve the results that can be achieved.

This course will underline the importance of why and how a fully systematic and controlled process must be adopted around the seizing and examining of exhibits found at crime scenes, through to their presentation at court. It will provide a fascinating, clear, and practical guide to getting the most intelligence and evidence from all types of scenes.

This Oxford Management training course will highlight:

• Importance of securing, preserving and examining crime scenes in a disciplined and methodical way
• Options available around scientific support, use of experts and modern forensic techniques so that crime scene opportunities are maximized
• Key roles played by those examining and managing crime scenes and their responsibilities within the overall investigation
• Importance of having the best-trained people with the right tools to harvest and deliver high-quality evidence
• Delivering the best judicial outcomes for victims of crime through harvesting and presenting at court forensic evidence that can be fully audited and which maintains complete integrity

Objectives

By the end of this training course, the participants will be able to:

• Explain and deliver best practices around effective crime scene management
• Understand the importance of crime scene security, use of effective cordons and other measures to reduce contamination
• Use advances in forensic science to support criminal investigations
• Identify the opportunities to maximize the gathering of forensic evidence
• Explain the benefits of delivering a fully auditable chain of custody for exhibits

Training Methodology

This Oxford Crime Scene Management and Evidential Chain of Custody training course will have subjects presented in utilising a variety of proven adult learning techniques, focused on case studies and best practices. This will include PowerPoint presentations, active participation in class practical cases followed by active group sessions, video materials, and tabletop activities.

Organisational Impact

The organization will acquire a thorough understanding of best practices around working in partnership with international law enforcement agencies to dismantle, disrupt, and prosecute transnational criminal activity. 

Impact on the organisation from the participants upon attending this Oxford training course includes the following: 

• Establish a thorough foundation regarding the fundamentals and challenges of examining crime scenes
• Enhance the quality of evidence available to deliver successful prosecutions
• Improve the competence, capability, and performance of staff to secure, preserve, examine and manage crime scenes
• Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of investigating all crime types and getting value for money
• Enhance public trust and confidence in the organisations ability to investigate crime
• Develop robust structures, processes, and discipline around crime scene management

Personal Impact

This Oxford training course will personally benefit the participants to develop their understanding and knowledge by the following: 

• Appreciating the importance of robust crime scene management processes
• Awareness of the key challenges and most effective ways of gathering forensic evidence
• Identifying scientists, experts and other supporting specialists that can maximize forensic intelligence and evidence gathering opportunities
• Understanding the processes and discipline required to deliver evidence harvested from a crime scene to court which can be fully audited and has certainty around its integrity
• The roles and responsibilities for all those engaged in the crime scene examination as well as overarching investigation
• Identifying modern forensic opportunities and techniques

Who Should Attend?

This Crime Scene Management and Evidential Chain of Custody training course is suitable for a wide range of law enforcement officers and staff engaged in the investigation of the crime of all descriptions.

This course is a suitably wide range of professionals but will significantly benefit: 

• Police Officers
• Prosecutors
• Security Services
• Immigration and Customs Officers
• Intelligence Practitioners and Managers
• Homicide, Kidnap and Rape Investigators
• Counter-Terrorism Investigators
• Serious and Organised Crime Investigators
• Any other agency tasked with investigating crime

Course Outline

Day 1

Crime Scene Basics 

Day 2

Crime Scene Management 

Day 3

Forensic Evidence 

Day 4

Chain of Custody 

Day 5

Gathering Evidence and the Judicial Process