This course is designed for the law enforcement officer who already has a working knowledge and experience of latent print development. This course is intended as an advanced curriculum for Evidence Technicians and officers whose duties typically entail processing crime scenes and evidence. The instruction will highlight processing atypical surfaces such as wet evidence, latex gloves, thermal paper receipts, vinyl items, vehicles, adhesives and textured surfaces. These difficult to process surfaces are often encountered in the field. The techniques taught in this course will be especially beneficial to departments that do some or all of their own latent print processing. The techniques will be demonstrated and discussed followed by practical exercises by the participants on all of the above surfaces. Various portable super glue tanks, magnetic powders, chemicals and impression casting/lifting materials as well as the basic processing methods will be utilized in the practical work. Supplies for the practical work will be provided. This course is designed to be primarily a hands on training experience.

This course will be an 8 hour day. The instructor is Michele Glasgow. Michele is currently a D/Sgt. assigned to the Latent Print Unit at the MSP Lansing Crime Lab. Michele has a Bachelor of Science degree in Forensic Science from MSU and has 11 years of experience with the MSP Latent Print Unit.

The cost of this course is $200 and is MCOLES approved.

This course is designed for any level law enforcement officer where duties include processing evidence for latent fingerprints. This class will improve the Evidence TechÕs skills in recovering identifiable latent fingerprints from crime scenes and evidence. The lecture will first establish a foundation of the principles of latent fingerprint comparison and identification. This background will give the student an appreciation for how the processing methods can work and the importance of good method in the processing steps. The instruction will then cover field processing techniques and equipment. An introduction to additional processing techniques utilized by crime lab examiners will be demonstrated and discussed to give the ET a working knowledge of the potential for effecting Identification on any evidence and any developed ridge structure. The class will include lecture as well as hands on practical work with the various processing methods.