course description
This is an intermediate level course designed to increase the effectiveness of specialized forensic photography and diagramming. Topics covered will provide an investigator with an excellent foundation and understanding of photographing impression evidence, specialized photography and crime scene diagramming.
This is the second (and more advanced) of two courses in Forensic Photography and Scene Documentation to be offered by PIEducation.com!
This course is approved for 14 hours of instruction in Texas, Oklahoma, and Iowa; 12 hours in Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky; 7 hours in Louisiana; 8 hours in Kansas; 10 hours in Oregon and South Carolina; 6 hours in North Carolina; 4 hours in New Mexico. An exam will be administered upon the conclusion of the program. If the candidate passes with a score of 75% or better, a certificate of completion will be issued in accordance with state licensing authority standards.
This CE program has been approved by the Louisiana State Board of Private Investigator Examiners on 3-1-2011 and is valid for one year from this date for SEVEN (7) HOURS OF CE CREDIT. With the purchase of this course you will receive the mandated LSBPIE Ethics course (1 CEU Hour) for free. When you have completed this course you will then be able to register yourself for the free LSBPIE Ethics Course.
the authors
Michael F. LaForte has over 29 years of law enforcement experience, including 15 years as a crime scene detective and is a certified instructor through Florida's Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission. Michael is an adjunct instructor at Florida Community College of Jacksonville and teaches police recruits at the Northeast Florida Criminal Justice Police Academy. Michael A. Knox brings with him fifteen years of experience in law enforcement as a police officer/detective with a large police agency in Florida. Currently a detective with the Traffic Homicide Unit, Michael was a full-time crime scene investigator for nearly seven years. Michael received full accreditation as a traffic accident reconstructionist from the Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction in April 2001. He is a member of the National Association of Traffic Accident Reconstructionists and Investigators, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the International Association of Crime Scene Investigators, and the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts.
*Warning this course contains some graphic material and photographs
program outline
Specialized Forensic Photography and Diagramming
- Examination Quality Photography
- Tire and Shoe Impression Evidence
- How Many Impressions?
- Recovery Steps
- Camera Setup
- Light Source
- Scales
- Improper Photographic Procedures
- Film Plane vs. Impression
- Photographing Two Dimensional Impressions
- Photographing Three Dimensional Impressions
- Photography of Fingerprints
- Documenting the Location of Fingerprints
- Photographing Latent Fingerprints
- Photographing Patent Fingerprints
- Photographing Plastic Fingerprints
- Photographing Fingerprints on Curved Surfaces
- Complete Hand Impressions
- Photographing Tool Mark Impressions
- Photographing Bite Marks
- Lighting
- Timed Exposures
- Timed Exposures with Flash
- Painting with Spotlight
- Painting with Light
- Monopod Photography
- Indoor Monopod Procedure
- Outdoor Daytime Monopod Procedure
- Outdoor Nighttime Monopod Procedure
- No Monopod
- Luminol Photography
- Amido Black Photography
- Photographing Fluorescent Powders
- Taking Timed Exposures
- Aerial Photography
- Photographing Humans
- Bullet Trajectories
- Photographing the Bullet Path
- Blood Spatter Photography
- Videotaping Crime/Accident Scenes
- Crime/Accident Scene Checklist
- Camera Reminders
- Reasons to Diagram
- When to Diagram
- Equipment
- Information on Diagrams
- What is a Diagram
- Why Diagram
- The Rough Sketch
- The Interior Scene Rough Sketch
- The Exterior Scene Rough Sketch
- Types of Crime/Accident Scene Diagrams
- The Finished Diagram
- Completed Interior Diagrams
- Completed Exterior Diagrams
- Why Multiple Diagrams
- Measuring Items in a Diagram
- Triangulation Method
- Coordinate Method
- Baseline Method
- Determining the Curve Radius
- Evidence Legend Page
