60 Hours Training Course / 6 CEU's - TUITION:  $1195.00 

Since 1955, the Southern Police Institute has provided law enforcement officers worldwide with quality homicide investigative training. The HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION course   provides participants with advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the  successful resolution of death investigations. Carefully selected case studies are used to explore every aspect of death investigations. An expert in a specific field of specialization leads each course segment. These experts are court certified and provide participants with valuable exposure to years of field  experience and a variety of investigative  techniques.

This course is an intensive sixty-hour course  delivered over 10 days. Each participant is granted the opportunity to individually interact with the instructors. Reading material and small group problem solving supplement the classroom instruction. At the completion of the course, participants have the ability to differentiate between accidental, suicidal, and homicidal death.

Course Topics and Areas of Instruction

• Overview of death investigations including resources required and the category of death: accident, homicide or suicide.
• Understanding behavior
• The role of the crime laboratory; DNA: Identification & Collection of Biological Evidence
• Medical/Legal causes of death; accident, homicide and suicide: a medical perspective
• Evaluating blood stain and physical evidence
• Evaluating physical force impact on bodies & objects

• Criminal Profiling; Small Group Criminal Profiling Exercise

ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED TO FULL-TIME SWORN POLICE PERSONNEL

LOCATIONS AND DATES: 

January 4-15, 2010  #02G15 KLEC Certified
Southern Police Institute, 2303 S. Third St, Louisville, KY  40208. PH# (502)-852-6561 Register

February 15-26, 2010   #02K38
Springfield Police Academy, 3501 Colorplant Dr, Springfield, IL  62701. PH# (502)- 217-788-8415Register

March  8-19, 2010   #02J37
Pocatello Police Department, 911 N. 7th, Pocatello, Idaho  83201.  PH# (502) 208-234-6129Register

Apr. 12-23, 2010  #02K24 
Sioux Falls Police Department, 320 W. 4th St, Sioux Falls, SD  57104. PH# (605) 367-7254 Register

May 3-14, 2010   #02L38
Cedar Rapids Police Department, 505 1st St. SW, Cedar Rapids, IA  52404.  PH#319-286-5491 Register

June 7-18, 2010  #02M30 KLEC Certified
Southern Police Institute, 2303 S. Third St, Louisville, KY  40208. PH# (502)-852-6561 Register

On Campus Housing for Louisville locations ONLY

Southern Police Institute participants of our Homicide courses are offered assigned housing in Bettie Johnson Hall on the Belknap Campus. Bettie Johnson Hall combines the convenience of its on-campus location with the comfort of apartment living.  Each apartment comes fully furnished with modern kitchens and private bedrooms featuring individual phone service, computer and cable connections. Among the many facilities available within walking distance from Bettie Johnson Hall is modern gymnasium that includes weight-lifting and exercise rooms, and a Student Activity Center that houses a variety of restaurants that serve meals at reasonable prices.  The Southern Police Institute and the University of Louisville are centrally located in Kentucky's largest city that offers many activities for our students.

The cost for housing for the Homicide program is $550.00 for  10 days.

To "Reserve Housing (only)"  Please contact Mary Evans at 502-852-0334

 Instructors: Harry O’Reilly, Lucy Davis,  Peter Smerick, Ross Gardner, Tracey Corey, M.D., Dean A. Hawley, M.D., Gregory J. Davis, M.D.