80 Hour Training Course / 8.0 CEUs / Tuition:  $1195.00 

Curriculum and Course Description

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 eighty-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.
• The legal aspects of homicide investigati0n.
  
• 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

All Homicide Investigation courses are KLEC certified.

Who Should Attend?

Enrollment is limited to full-time sworn police personnel.

Instructors:

Chuck Hemp, Lucy Davis,  Peter Smerick, Ross Gardner, Tracey Corey, M.D., Dean A. Hawley, M.D., Gregory J. Davis, M.D., Ryane Conroy

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