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	Date:	January 25-28, 2010
	Fee:	$617
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $119 single/double

This 4-day seminar will acquaint individuals working in this field with the technicalities and responsibilities involved in day-to-day operations of property and evidence rooms. The latest techniques for inventory and control will be covered.

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	Date:	January 25-29, 2010
	Fee:	$726
	Location:	MD Public Safety Training Institute
	Accommodations:	StayBridge Suites
		Cost: $120 single/double

This course will introduce the student to the mathematical theory behind the formulae used to determine the origin of blood sources and the scientific principles that dictate the properties of blood in motion. Completion of this course will enable the student to analyze, interpret, and testify more effectively in cases where bloodstain pattern analysis is performed. Hands-on exercises will be utilized to reinforce principles learned in the classroom and will include instruction in the use of the Backtrack® computer program for bloodstain pattern analysis.

Prerequisite: Attendance at a 40-hour basic bloodstain pattern analysis course is required for attendance at this course.

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	Date:	February 22-26, 2010
	Fee:	$690
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $148 single/double

This course is designed for novice or experienced auto theft investigators from both large and small departments, and regional tasks forces. There will be hands-on sessions involving restoration of altered VIN and the import/export of stolen vehicles. This course will only be offered once this year, so register early!

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	Date:	March 1-5, 2010
	Fee:	$648
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $119 single/double

This course is for crime scene personnel, detectives and law enforcement personnel who are tasked with the responsibility of detecting, collecting, and preserving physical evidence from crime scenes. Emphasis is placed on documenting and collecting evidence. This course involves extensive hands-on training reconstructing the criminal scenario and investigating mock crime scenes.

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	Date:	March 8-12, 2010
	Fee:	$679
	Location:	MD Public Safety Training Institute
	Accommodations:	StayBridge Suites
		Cost: $120 single/double

This 44-hour course will instruct the student in identifying bloodstain pattern evidence at the crime scene. They will learn how to properly interpret, document, preserve and reconstruct bloodstain pattern evidence. Class size is limited so register early!

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	Date:	March 15-19, 2010
	Fee:	$620
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $119 single/double

This 5-day seminar will cover sensitive topics such as sexual harassment, criminal sexual misconduct, roles of the medical examiner, interview techniques and pre-interview, domestic violence, officer conduct, criminal violations, case preparation and public record issues. Internal Affairs investigations in small departments, as well as correctional facilities, and other related topics.

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	Date:	March 22-26, 2010
	Fee:	$529
	Location:	MD Public Safety Training Institute
	Accommodations:	Courtyard by Marriott
		Cost: $109 single/double

This 40-hour course is designed to be of value to those individuals seeking a career in the fingerprint classification / identification profession and for law enforcement investigators and crime scene personnel. The curriculum serves as the first level of formal training in developing the educational foundation for a fingerprint analyst or examiner.

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	Date:	April 12-14, 2010
	Fee:	$546
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $99 single/double

This 3-day course is designed to outline the causes and impact of misconduct in a law enforcement agency. Strategies to prevent misconduct from invading a police agency including Early Intervention Systems (EIS) will be discussed.

Participants will become familiar with the history of police misconduct, what causes a good officer to make bad decisions, and how to implement an EIS. Discussions on the areas of supervisory liability, policy failure and what defines police corruption and how to conduct and audit or sting.

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	Date:	April 19-23, 2010
	Fee:	$673
	Location:	MD Public Safety Training Institute
	Accommodations:	StayBridge Suites
		Cost: $120 single/double

This course is designed for forensic photographers, crime scene investigators, and other investigative personnel who have completed basic photographic training and are ready to learn more advanced techniques.

Emphasis in this course will be on advanced lighting techniques including, Studio Flash for Forensic Photography, Close-up Lighting Techniques, Alternate Light Source Photography, and Preparation to Complete Practical Exercises for Certification as a Forensic or Evidence Photographer.

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	Date:	April 26-30, 2010
	Fee:	$725
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $99 single/double

This course has been designed for law enforcement and public safety personnel, administrators, public information officers, and others who represent their departments to the news media.

Participants will review media policy, media operations and their relationship with the news media. They will also participate in on-camera interviews, prepare news release, and examine the role of the public information officer. The working environment of television, radio and print organizations will also be explored. Specialized topics include crisis situations, disasters, dealing with the national and international media, and other important media-related issues.

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	Date:	May 3-7, 2010
	Fee:	$646
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $89 single/double

This course consists of a series of workshops in fingerprint evidence for detectives, crime scene investigators, and identification technicians. This training will provide skill enhancement workshops with updated techniques in the detection, development, collection and preservation of fingerprint evidence.

Special emphasis is placed upon the development and collection of latent fingerprints. The following techniques are included: Superglue applications for the laboratory and the field, Small Particle Reagent, various methods for processing the adhesive side of tape, and many other methods to chemically or mechanically process latent prints. This course includes a one-day fingerprint photography workshop.

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	Date:	May 17-21, 2010
	Fee:	$744
	Location:	MD Public Safety Training Institute
	Accommodations:	Hyatt Place
		Cost: $99 single/double

This class has limited enrollment and early registration is recommended. This practical workshop enables the student to enhance skills acquired in the basic course by investigating and reconstructing realistically established mock crime scenes. Included is a one-day courtroom testimony session where the students will practice testifying to their findings.

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	Date:	May 24-28, 2010
	Fee:	$636
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $89 single/double

This course has been designed to meet the demands placed on the modern-day cargo theft police investigator or industry security specialist. Experts in each field will discuss the various investigative strategies used by law enforcement loss prevention professionals to combat cargo theft. Instructors with decades of experience in their respective areas will provide detailed instruction with practical application formats useful to the investigator on the street.

Cutting edge initiatives will be discussed and presentations will be offered, which include a review of some tools of the trade. This course will provide the line investigator with valuable ideas and strategies that have been employed successfully by the TOMCATS and other law enforcement groups dedicated to cargo theft investigations. The course will also provide insight for task force managers on the procedure used to develop and maintain a multi-agency initiative investigating both state and federal violations of the law.

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	Date:	June 7-11, 2010
	Fee:	$645
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $89 single/double

During this 5-day course each participant will receive instructions on how to properly document a traffic crash investigation scene. In addition, proper courtroom preparation/documentation will be addressed.

Topics include: Scene Photography, Proper Scene Documentation, Evaluation of Scene Evidence, DUI Investigation, Diagramming, Using Investigative Tools, Basic Crash Math, Advanced Crash Math, Interrogating Suspects, Interviewing Witnesses, Court Preparation, Depositions, and Preparing Traffic Homicide Reports.

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	Date:	June 14-18, 2010
	Fee:	$642
	Location:	Hyatt Regency Coral Gables
		Cost: $121 single/double

This course is designed for both law enforcement personnel and investigators within the banking industry. The curriculum will cover fraudulent deposits, kiting schemes, check washing, check counterfeiting, internal bank fraud, ATM fraud, credit card counterfeiting, fraudulent card applications, embezzlements, recovery of computer evidence, post disaster fraud, West African fraud and other critical topics relevant to fraud investigators.

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	Date:	June 21-25, 2010
	Fee:	$632
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $89 single/double

This course is designed to enhance skills obtained in our Crime Scene Investigations course and provide the student with extensive hands-on practical experience in various workshops including, for example, trace evidence and tire track standards.

The goal of this course is to develop the investigator's skills in crime scene assessment and evidence collection. Topics covered include a courtroom testimony workshop, investigation of police shootings, and detection and collection of serological and related evidence, including fingerprints in blood.

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	Date:	June 28-30, 2010
	Fee:	$677
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $89 single/double

This 3-day course is designed to enhance all types of criminal investigators. The attendee will be exposed to proven methords of interpreting cellular evidence and ways to present this evidence in the courtroom. The course will focus on defined fundamentals of celluar systems and networks. This basic knowledge will assist the investigator in defining opinions based on cellular evidence. The course then transitions to advanced techniques including identifying all blocked callers, tower acquisition analysis, and cellular field testing for demonstrative purposes.

The course will also include hands-on training and exposure to actual criminal cases involving cellular evidence. The attendee should bring a PC based laptop as this course will include the installation of software to facilitate the analysis of cellular evidence.

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	Date:	July 19-23, 2010
	Fee:	$710
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $109 single/double

This course will take the new and experienced homicide investigator through the different aspects of investigating a homicide crime scene. Other topics that will be discussed are profiling violent crimes, interview and interrogation techniques, crime scene reconstruction and analysis, identifying and documenting bloodstain patterns and legal updates.

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	Date:	July 26-30, 2010
	Fee:	$539
	Location:	MD Public Safety Training Institute
	Accommodations:	Hyatt Place
		Cost: $99 single/double

This workshop will be instructed by latent print examiners from the Miami-Dade Police Department. The course is designed for individuals who have completed a course of training in Basic Fingerprint Classification and Comparison and have little or no experience in the identification of latent fingerprints.

Topics to be covered include: determination of latents of value, strategies and techniques for making identifications, ACE-V methodology, legal issues and much more. Students in the workshop will take part in evaluation, comparison, and courtroom, testimony exercises. Enrollment is limited so register early!

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	Date:	August 2-6, 2010
	Fee:	$543
	Location:	MD Public Safety Training Institute
	Accommodations:	Hyatt Place
		Cost: $99 single/double

This 40-hour advanced workshop is the second in the series of our fingerprint identification courses. It will be of interest to those currently working or seeking employment in the field of fingerprint identification.

This workshop will take an in depth look at the advanced aspects of Tenprint Examination. We will take an adventure into the history of fingerprints, how to handle scars/amputations/intentional mutilations, and recording neat and legible major case/elimination prints.

ACE-V and its relevance to the science of fingerprints will be discussed as will the effect of computers and other technology on Tenprint examination. Preparation for testimony in court will also be instructed. Attendees will receive and overview of the International Association for Identification's Tenprint Certification process. Curriculum for this course picks up where the Basic Fingerprint Classification & Comparison course leaves off. Attendance at this or another 40-hour basic fingerprint classification course is required.

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	Date:	August 2-6, 2010
	Fee:	$620
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $89 single/double

This is a 40-hour course for criminal investigators interested in or currently working street gang investigations. Some of the topics covered in this course will be: Basic Gang History, Culture of the Gang, Signs, Symbols, Myths and Initiations, Gang Related Homicide / Shootings, Search Warrants, Operational Plans & Large Scale Takedowns and Case Management.

This course will focus on building a case for prosecution in the federal system utilizing the Enterprise Theory of Investigation, the concept currently used in investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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	Date:	August 16-20, 2010
	Fee:	$680
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $89 single/double

This course is designed to teach skills used in photographically documenting crime scenes. Photographic theories will be discussed and students will take part in practical hands-on exercises that will reinforce skills learned in class. Topics include equipment selection, basic and advanced lighting techniques (including electronic flash, photography of luminescent Luminol, Infrared and Reflected Ultra-Violet Photography, and the painting-with-light technique), close-up photography, photography of three-dimensional evidence, alternate light source photography, and photography of aircraft crash scenes. Although this course makes use of digital cameras, it has application for agencies using traditional film-based technology, as well as those already using digital.

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	Date:	September 6-10, 2010
	Fee:	$529
	Location:	MD Public Safety Training Institute
	Accommodations:	Hyatt Place
		Cost: $99 single/double

This 40-hour course is designed to be of value to those individuals seeking a career in the fingerprint classification / identification profession and for law enforcement investigators and crime scene personnel. The curriculum serves as the first level of formal training in developing the educational foundation for a fingerprint analyst or examiner.

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	Date:	September 13-17, 2010
	Fee:	$660
	Location:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $89 single/double

This week long course will show you how to investigate forged deeds and satisfactions; identity theft and real estate fraud schemes defalcations; builder bailout schemes; credit for sales schemes and condo conversion fraud.

Students will participate in practical exercises involving actual case files which will be presented by Douglas Pollock, President of Information Data Services Inc. In addition, specific skill sets will be taught including net worth analysis, how to handle electronic evidence; concealed income analysis, using Excel and other Microsoft products to handle and sort large amounts of raw data for investigation; how to trace money from illegal transactions and understanding how and when to use specific state and federal laws to prosecute offenders.

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	Date:	September 20-24, 2010
	Fee:	$697
	Accommodations:	Newport Beachside Resort
		Cost: $89 single/double

This is an intermediate course for those involved with the investigative , legal, or therapeutic issues regarding the victims of sexual assault. Topics covered include interviewing techniques (including those for victim, subject, and child), forensic evidence (including DNA databases and serology), crime scene and evidence handling, profiling offenders, psychological considerations, and legal issues.

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	Date:	October 4-8, 2010
	Fee:	$597
	Location:	MD Public Safety Training Institute
	Accommodations:	Courtyard Marriott
		Cost: $109 single/double

This 5-day course will teach the crime scene technician or the criminal investigator the skills necessary in investigating crime scenes where there has been a discharge of a firearm. Topics include Ballistic Evidence Overview, Projectile Trajectory Determinations using Dowel Rods, Strings, Laser Devices, and Evidence Documentation and Collecting.

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	Date:	November 1-6, 2010
	Fee:	$728
	Location:	MD Public Safety Training Institute
	Accommodations:	StayBridge Suites
		Cost: $120 single/double

This 6-day course presents the latest techniques in the systematic and methodical documentation of physical evidence at a crime scene. Participants will process complex crime scenes that include casting three-dimensional footwear and tire tracks. The students will also participate in specially designed crime scene reconstruction exercises. Laser trajectory methods, shot sequencing, flight paths and other firearm collection methods will be covered and demonstrated.

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	Date:	November 8-19, 2010
	Fee:	$756
	Location:	MD Public Safety Training Institute
	Accommodations:	StayBridge Suites
		Cost: $109 double/single

This 2-weekcourse is open to all levels of law enforcement officers and fire service personnel. Students must hold a current Open Water Diver rating to apply. The course will combine classroom instruction with practical in-water application. The student will participate in the removal of vehicles from lakes, rock pits, and canals as well as searching the hull of a freighter in the Port of Miami. The student will be exposed to underwater search and recovery, underwater video and photography and underwater crime scene processing. This course also provides in-depth instruction in underwater aircraft accident investigation.

Class size is limited; early registration is recommended. This class is eligible for salary incentive money for Florida officers.

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	Date:	November 29-December 3, 2010
	Fee:	$581
	Location:	MD Public Safety Training Institute
	Accommodations:	Courtyard Marriott
		Cost: $109 single/double

This comprehensive 40-hour course is designed for crime scene investigators, detectives, crime laboratory analysts, and others in the field of forensic science that need the basic training and techniques for the buried body or surface skeleton crime scene examination and recovery.

The attendees will have a working knowledge of the techniques required at surface skeleton and buried body crime scenes to include; protocols, potential physical evidence awareness, equipment needs, bone identification and inventory, procedures used to preserve human remains, search and documentation techniques and courtroom case presentation experience.

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	Date:	December 6-10, 2010
	Fee:	$679
	Location:	Metropolitan Police Institute
	Accommodations:	StayBridge Suites
		Cost: $120 single/double

This 44-hour course will instruct the student in identifying bloodstain pattern evidence at the crime scene. They will learn how to properly interpret, document, preserve and reconstruct bloodstain pattern evidence. Class size is limited so register early!

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