Crime Scene Investigator

Duties

EXAMPLES OF ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Responds to crime scenes at request of sworn personnel. Assumes coordination of major crime scenes.
• Perform crime scene investigation, including identifying, collecting, preserving and processing physical evidence, preparation of appropriate reports, assisting in criminal investigations, and testifying in court.
• Collects, photographs and preserves fingerprints, palm prints, and other types of body prints. Analyzes and compares latent prints, conducts chemical fingerprinting processing.
• Records or visualizes physical or trace evidence through photographic techniques such as macro, micro, infrared, ultraviolet and alternative light sources.
• Collects fingerprints and other evidence and takes photographs of deceased victims.
• Collects blood and DNA samples, perform presumptive tests for bodily fluids, and prepares castings of tire, foot, hand, tool and other types of impressions.
• Performs basic analysis on a variety of physical evidence.
• Documents crime scenes with photographs, video recordings, diagrams, and reports and creates charts, diagrams, and other visual aids suitable for court proceedings.
• Prepares and maintains detailed reports and records.

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 Earn a Degree in Crime Scene Investigation, Forensic Science, or Computer Forensics

Requirements

To qualify for this classification, an individual must possess any combination of experience and education that would likely produce the required knowledge and abilities and enable the individual to successfully perform the duties of the position. A typical combination is:

• Experience: Journey level responsible investigative and analytical experience preferably in a law enforcement environment, including some experience interviewing victims, witnesses or suspects and processing crime scenes. Candidates must be twenty one years of age by time of appointment.
• Education: Equivalent to the completion of high school supplemented by college level course work in police administration, criminology, any of the sciences useful to the profession, or a related field; a bachelor’s degree is highly desirable.

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES

• Possession of a valid California driver's license issued by California Department of Motor Vehicles.
• Certifications in the field of crime scene investigation are highly desirable.

OTHER:

• Must have no felony convictions, or misdemeanor convictions involving moral turpitude.

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