Marion County Sheriff Gregg Alexander introduced Investigator Silas Gibson lately graduated from the twenty fifth Session of the Crime Scene Technician Certificates Program (CSTCP) of the Legal Justice Institute, a division of the College of Arkansas system.
This system is a collection of six elementary programs that introduce important elements of crime scene investigation. Contributors are required to attend and efficiently cross all programs in the course of the six-month, 135-hour program to obtain their certificates.
Upon completion of this system, contributors may have exceeded the minimal necessities needed to use for nationwide crime scene certification. The coaching was performed on the Legal Justice Institute campus in Little Rock.
These programs included intensive coaching in crime scene administration, crime scene images, crime scene sketching, observe taking, report writing, latent print processing, impression proof, organic and hint proof, and crime scene investigation.
This system was designed to extend the worth of forensic proof in a legal investigation by emphasizing proof recognition and applicable documentation, assortment, preservation, and storage of bodily proof recovered from against the law scene.
To perform this objective, program contributors obtain at school and expertise oriented primary instruction in all key elements of crime scene investigation. Expertise competency and written examinations are given on the finish of every six elements.
Profitable completion of this system requires the participant to cross all examinations and exhibit competence in documenting and processing indoor and out of doors crime scenes in addition to automobiles.
Sheriff Alexander praised Gibson’s completion of the coaching whereas nonetheless supervising the Legal Investigation Division and managing his different assigned duties. Gibson is the second of two (2) Marion County Investigators who’ve accomplished this system, however the first particular person to finish this system whereas working for the Sheriff’s Workplace.
Gibson is a 17 12 months veteran of the Sheriff’s Workplace.
