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Welcome to the April 2007 Crime Scene Investigator Network Newsletter
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New CSI and Forensic Job Announcements | ||||||
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Forensic Specialist | St. Cloud, Minnesota Police Department Final Filing Date: May 1, 2007 Salary: $57,660 - $67,788 per year The St Cloud Police Department is seeking a qualified individual to lead the Crime Lab. Upon appointment, the Forensic Specialist will immediately become actively involved in the planning and development of the crime lab in a new police facility. <View complete job listing> | ||||||
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Forensic Specialist (Crime Scene Investigation)
| Orange County, California Sheriff Final Filing Date: Open until filled Salary: $38,396.80 - $51,417.60 per year Perform routine field, laboratory and/or darkroom assignments for which well defined procedures and guidelines have been established; assists on complex assignments under close supervision; performs latent to inked fingerprint comparisons. Assignments will be made to the crime scene investigation unit or to the latent print unit. Crime Scene Investigation: Processes and photographs less complex crime scenes; searches crime scenes for fingerprints and other physical evidence; develops latent fingerprints; performs less complex laboratory examinations on physical evidence using established methodologies; prepares finished crime scene sketches for court; prepares reports reflecting work activity. <View complete job listing> | ||||||
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Criminalist Supervisor
| City of Plano, Texas Final Filing Date: April 8, 2007 Salary: $4,046 to $5,908 per month Will supervise, train, assign work, schedule and evaluate the performance of assigned personnel; make hiring, dismissal, and disciplinary recommendations; monitor operation and work activities on assigned shift; ensure that fingerprint requests and laboratory requests are performed; respond to Police shootings and other incidents; review records, forms, and standardized reports prepared by subordinate employees; Assume command of the Crime Scene Investigative Unit functions at a major crime scene; perform a variety of complex, independent laboratory tests, analyses, classifications, comparisons, and identifications of all types of physical evidence from crime scenes. Examine and evaluate evidence, and determine techniques and procedures to be used in the development of latent prints on diverse items of physical evidence; preserve and/or photograph developed latent print evidence, and make necessary comparisons with known inked impressions; obtain legible friction-ridge impressions of known and unknown deceased persons; receive and return evidence; guarantee and maintain the accepted chain of custody; interpret analytical testimony, and compose technical reports; testify as an expert witness in court; research forensic science field, and study current material in forensic journals regarding new advances and techniques in latent print examination; make periodic equipment checks to ensure that all equipment is being properly maintained; monitor the pager 24 hours, 7 days a week, unless on approved leave. <View complete job listing> | ||||||
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Supervising Identification Agent | Massachusetts State Police Final Filing Date: April 29, 2007 Salary: $1,680.24 to $2,305.26 bi-weekly Classification and pattern recognition of fingerprints to enter them properly in agency records and to compare them with existing records for identification. Retrieves criminal records in response to requests for information from law enforcement officials. Testifies in court as an expert witness on fingerprints. Determines whether or not fingerprint legibility meets FBI standards. Analyzes criminal records, identification data, or other data to judge the adequacy of the materials in determining crimes and crime trends. Determines the correct response to requests for information from local police officials and staff. Speaks before various groups as a representative of the agency. Draws up specifications for new equipment, supplies or services. Develops daily and monthly backup tape records. Projects financial data for inclusion in unit budget. Solicits information from vendors to recommend supplies, equipment or services for purchase by agency. Negotiates with vendors, contractors or other providers of services to arrange agreements in the provision of services. Plans work flow by use of diagrams or flow charts. Performs related duties such as database maintenance; weekly attendance; ordering and maintaining office supplies; typing material; keeping various records and files; and coding names for files. <View complete job listing> | ||||||
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| CSI In The News
| <Physics professor invents tool for use in crime scene investigations> A UConn physics professor has helped invent and test a device that could significantly aid law enforcement in locating and identifying evidence at crime scenes. The device, a portable x-ray fluorescence instrument about the size of a large hand-held camcorder, will enable police officers to quickly and clearly detect and analyze a variety of evidence from suspects and crime scenes, including gun shot residue, blood, semen, and numerous other forms of trace evidence. The UConn Advance, by Michael Kirk <Crime lab sheds new light> While it may lack the glamour of its primetime counterparts in Las Vegas, Miami and New York, this city's new crime lab is CSI for real. The Tooele Police Department opened its first forensic laboratory March 19, giving this community of just 30,000 people a scientific edge in solving crime. Officers anticipate a quicker and more expansive analysis of the department's forensic evidence. "It is a big leap into the future for a small agency like us," said Sgt. Todd Hewitt. With a touch of TV drama on his shelves, forensic investigator James May displays a slab of bulletproof glass speckled with slugs, a human skull wearing sunglasses and a cast of his own shoe print. The Salt Lake Tribune, By Jeremiah Stettler <Reopening Cases For Forensic Evidence?> Virginia, Texas, and Minnesota are tackling problems in the nation's justice system. Each state has founded oversight board in the last 2 years that can investigate misconduct in crime labs. The problem -- in the last 2 years the new boards have yet to reopen a case. The boards either refused to do so or say because they haven't recevied enough funding. Those seeking improvements in forensic work see the boards' actions as the states' unwillingness dig into its own failings within the justice system. The Associated Press Wire <Forensic investigators to exhume Houdini> A team of forensic pathologists, anthropologists, toxicologists and radiologists will descend on the remains of the renowned escape artist once his body is exhumed from a Queens cemetery as they search for clues to his possible murder, the head of the investigative team said Friday. "Everything will be thoroughly analyzed," promised Professor James Starrs, the dean of the disinterment dream team. "We'll examine his hairs, his fingernails, any bone fractures.'' Toronto Star <Sisters in Crime Slates Forensic Science Conference for Writers> What does a body look like if it has been left in a shallow grave for three years -- or three days? What are signs of cyanide poisoning? What do police really do when they are called to a crime scene? Can a forensic scientist tell what kind of gun was used in a crime just by looking at a body? These are just a few of the questions authors may have while writing crime fiction. Now Sisters in Crime (SinC) offers a way to get answers. Sisters in Crime, an international organization of mystery authors and enthusiasts, is sponsoring Forensic University of St. Louis: 50 Ways to Catch a Killer, a conference offering education in all aspects of forensic science. The program is scheduled for November 1-4, 2007, at the St. Louis Airport Hilton, St. Louis, Missouri. The conference is open to the public. TPRWeb
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