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Crime Scene Management Workshop Opens Here
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Crime Scene Management Workshop Opens Here
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Wednesday,
July 19, 2000
- The Ministry of Legal
Affairs, Home Affairs and Labour has taken another significant step in
addressing the many problems facing law enforcement on the island. On Wednesday,
July 19, 2000 the Ministry with assistance from the Peel Regional Police of
Canada began an intensive two and a half week Crime Scene Management Training
Programme for police officers involved in crime interdiction. Police
Commissioner Francis Nelson says the training programme comes on the heels of
sharp criticisms being levelled against the Police and the Office of the
Director of Public Prosecutions, over the mishandling of some high profile
cases. According to
Commissioner Nelson, “There are definitely problems as we see it in terms of
our way of operations. We’re talking about the whole question of collection
and presentation of evidence in our court system and this has been creating a
nightmare for us as far as it relates to how we go about presenting the
evidence. The only way we as law enforcement officers can be successful in crime
detection is to provide this level of training in all aspects of fingerprinting,
forensic crime scene examination and photography which is crucial to persons who
are engaged in producing qualitative and quantitative evidence as the backbone
of criminal prosecutions.” Legal
and Home Affairs Minister Honourable Velon John says the workshop training is
the first phase in placing local law enforcement officers on the cutting edge of
sophisticated crime interdiction and management. “This workshop comes
a time when functional levels of professional sophistication are needed to
combat the increasing incidence of crime regionally and internationally and also
to contain the criminal ingenuity of those who callously and dispassionately
exploit the vulnerabilities of our societal system and system’s members, and
so crime scene management must be seen not as the mechanical gathering of
potential elements of evidence but the scientific and professional application
of knowledge gleaned from a rigorous acquisition of forensic related
information,” Minister John told his audience at the official opening of the
workshop. Forensic
Crime Scene Specialist, St. Lucian Joseph Berkeley is facilitating the Crime
Scene Management Workshop. Mr. Berkeley first worked as an officer of the St.
Lucia Police Force before his attachment to the Peel Regional Police of Canada. Some
of the topics to be covered during the course include Crime Scene Protocols for
DNA evidence, Protecting the Crime Scene, Case Presentation and Handling,
Criminal Profiling and Sexual Assault. -end- |
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