Who this course is for:

• Certified Peace Officer Standards and Training (P.O.S.T) officials, Coroners, Deputy Coroners, Certified Medical Legal Investigators (ABMDI)
• Search and recovery dive personnel, rescue personnel who may respond to an in-water evidence search or a water related drowning
• The public safety diver who may encounter potential evidence

Course prerequisites:

• Minimum age 18
• Should be an active member of a law enforcement investigation agency or emergency first response group.

What you can expect to learn:

• Review of Bill of Rights
• Establishing a crime scene and terms/definitions used in the industry
• Witness interviewing and types of evidence
• Methods of documenting scenes
  • Photographing, sketching
• Accident vs. Fatality
• Search patterns and securing evidence
• Body decomposition and physiology of drowning
• Body recovery and handling procedures
• Scene control and court document preparation

What’s in it for you and your team?

• Extensive diver training to allow for more team capabilities, diver response and mission completion
• Working together as a team for crowd control and with supporting officers
• Synchronized training that allows for proper evidence recovery and handling

How to take this Course!

• Find an Instructor for this Course: here
• Find your local Dive Center: here

Course Standards & Procedures