what specialist skills do forensic technicians have?
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Here is a little info. See the sources I've listed below. They will tell you alot more. \n\nThe Forensic Investigation Unit provides expertise at crime scenes through the use of photography, identification, evidence collection, processing and preservation. Technicians also perform latent fingerprint comparisons, forensic artistry and provide expert court testimony.\n\nThere are four types of technicians in the unit: Crime Scene Technician, Latent Fingerprint Specialist, Photo Lab Technician, and Office Support Specialist. In addition to skills required by their specialization, each technician must have a exceptional understanding of law enforcement techniques and needs to perform their assigned tasks in a way that assists future courtroom proceedings.\n\nCrime Scene Technician:\nHighly trained and capable Crime Scene Technicians provide mobile crime lab services at major crime scenes by scene photography, processing for latent fingerprints and collecting, identifying, classifying and preserving evidence. Crime Scene Technicians perform presumptive blood tests, gunpowder residue tests, and plaster cast impression molds. They process bodies of the deceased for trace evidence and fingerprints when necessary. They also fingerprint living and deceased subjects for identification. Technicians must be ready to testify in court to their findings and methods in criminal and civil cases.\n\nLatent Fingerprint Specialist\nFingerprint Specialists examine and evaluate the latent prints developed and lifted at crime scenes. They search for ridge detail and clarity to determine whether the print is sufficient for comparison. Comparisons are made between the print from the scene and prints of known individuals at the request of detectives and officers with the department for identification of the perpetrators of crimes.\n\nA vital role of the specialist is to enter and compare prints in the Automated Fingerprint Identification System or AFIS. This computer capability allows more comparisons in shorter time periods but it is ultimately the specialist who make the identification. Specialists must also be prepared to testify to their identifications in court.\n\nPhoto Lab Technician\nThe Tampa Police photo lab is responsible for processing and printing all Fire and Police Department crime scenes along with public relations photography. These technicians are very proficient in photography and photographic development techniques, both of which are crucial in the assignment they occupy. These technicians are responsible for a wide variety of complex and expensive equipment and maintain photographic negatives for future examination.\n\nOffice Support Specialists\nA sometimes neglected aspect of any organization or function is the record keeping and data management. Our Office Support Specialists play an essential in successfully achieving ID's goals. These technicians work to quantify data about arrests made, maintain city personnel files and criminal files, and staff the service desk for photo requests. These tasks are but a few of the functions of their highly demanding job roles
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Homicide Detectives are plainclothes investigators who specialize in gathering facts and collecting evidence for criminal cases involving murder.\n\nMost of the work involves conducting interviews, examining records, monitoring the activities of suspects, and participating in raids or arrests.\n\nCases are assigned on a rotating basis and homicide detectives work on them until they result in an arrest or conviction, or until the case is dropped. They may be assigned to interagency task forces, when, for instance, a murder incident involves other areas of crime investigation, such as narcotics.\n\nCareer Description for a Homicide Detective\nWhile contributing to an investigation to solve a case, the homicide detective may carry out the following duties:\n\nExamining the scene of crime to obtain clues and gather evidence. \nQuestioning witnesses. \nQuestioning individuals linked to homicide victims or to suspects. \nInvestigating and interviewing suspects. \nInvestigating known or suspected criminals to detect criminal activity or clues. \nInvestigating particular facts of the case to identify salient leads. \nVisiting known haunts and mixing with criminals to obtain information relevant to the case. \nWriting reports for submission to the officer in charge. \nConducting arrests or assisting in the arrests of criminals and suspects. \nPreparing cases for court, in line with formal procedures. \nTestifying before courts or juries. \n\nWould a Homicide Detective Career Suit You?\nA police detectice career can be very dangerous and stressful. Officers need to be constantly alert and ready to deal with a range of threatening situations, including violence from suspected criminals. The experience of being present at murder scenes can be acutely stressful.\n\nThis kind of career can have a strong impact on the individual's personal life. Hours can be unpredictable and irregular, with paid overtime being common. Shift work is necessary. Junior officers frequently work weekends, holidays and nights. Detectives are required to work at any time, with especially long hours during investigations. Officers are frequently expected to be armed and to exercise their arrest authority whenever necessary, including outside working hours.\n\nOutstanding personal characteristics required are honesty, good judgement, integrity, and a sense of responsibility. An interest in people is essential, together with the ability to relate at all levels. The ability to withstand pressure and make sound, objective judgements and decisions in difficult circumstances is critical. Credibility as a witness is vital, as are good communication skills. The willingness to confront and resolve problems, coupled with good observational skills, is also important. Good physical health is a requirement.\n\nSalary and Prospects for a Detective Career\nPolice officers usually become eligible for promotion after a probationary period ranging from six months to three years. In a large department, officers are promoted to detective and are assigned to investigative work after completing the appropriate selection and training. As they gain experience, they may gain further promotion and become responsible for controlling, planning and organizing the work of others.\n\nCompetition is keen for higher paying jobs in affluent areas. Career opportunities for a homicide detective are more widespread both in local and special police departments that offer relatively low salaries, and in urban communities with relatively high crime rates. College training in police science or military police experience gives an applicant a distinct advantage.\n\nFurther career promotion to higher ranks usually depends on the detective's position on a promotion list, which is determined by scores on a written examination and on-the-job performance.
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Firefighter\nForestry Specialist\nFarmer\nFreelance\nForensic Scientist\nFencer (pro circuit UK)\nFence (illegal goods)\nFrench Chef\nFile Clerk\nFord Engineer\nFreight Clerk\nFreight Car Inspector\nFire Marshal\nForeign Minister\nFramer\nFranchise Owner\nFaith Healer\nFloral Designer\n\nHope this helps some! :)
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A specialized job in the modern world.\nthey have the capability to produce the exact copy only detectable by latest equipment.
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Chemistry and microbiology double major will probably get you the closest to forensic pathology background.  You may want to consider after that attending a graduate program in forensic pathology specifically.  A solid chemistry and biochemistry background will take you a long way in many fields, and is a great foundation for anyone interested in the sciences.  They are particularly relevant to forensic pathology because the techniques and background of this field are based on chemical and microbiological sciences.  Along the way, you're going to have to take other courses in physics and biology as corequesites.  Best wishes!
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Who would you classify as an expert?
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The Forensic Science Degree can take you anywhere from 2-4 years, depending on if you are going for a BS or a MS. You could not do both jobs because a) the time each job takes and b) there could be a conflict of interest depending on what kind of law you were doing. Crime scene investigations and forensics are linked. The forensics portion usually requires you to have some science background (Biology, Chemistry). CSI's don't necessarily need this. Hope this answers your question.
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It depends what area of Forensic Science you wish to specialize in.  If you were to become an expert in ballistics, for example, then a degree in Physics should be your choice.  For things like toxicology or pathology, then a degree in chemistry/medicine would be in order.
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There is no true certification in forensics. There is no natinal test or such.\n\nThe best bet is to look at a program in your area and see what coursework you have taken already. Look at Cal State Los Angeles.  Their program has many classes that are specialized.\nCRIM 511:  Principles of Research\nCRIM 550:  Crime Scene Reconstruction\nCRIM 552:  Trace Evidence Analysis\nCRIM 553:  Forensic Serology and DNA Analysis\nCRIM 554:  Identification of Controlled Substances\nCRIM 557:  Forensic Pathology\nCRIM 559:  Forensic Microscopy\nCRIM 560:  Forensic Toxicology\nCRIM 562:  Courtroom and Legal Issues in Criminalistics\nCRIM 594:  Thesis Prospectus\n\nB.  ELECTIVES                                     (8 units)\n\nANTH 463:  Forensic Anthropology\nBIOL 402:  Electron Microscopy\nBIOL 408:  Experimental Design and Advanced Biometry\nBIOL 413:  Molecular Diagnostics\nBIOL 415:  Population Genetics\nBIOL 416:  Molecular Genetics\nBIOL 417:  Gene Manipulation\nBIOL 432:  Fundamentals of Toxicology\nCRIM 595: Directed Field Work\n\nSo your other MS degree would cover most of those electives well. So other than field work and the core classes you have 50% done. If the school was willing, you could get another masters in forensics in a year or so capitalizing on previous coursework.\n\nAlso, having this type of background would make you more employable.\n\nAlso many facilities hire specialized lab biologists and chemists to run these tests. They do not do any field work or colelction, they just run DNA samples or such and have an onsite training to learn about chain of custody type issues.\n\nIt is not all CSI like where the same character does field work, analyzes  prints, samples DNA and solves the case. It is very much a team effort of many.
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Lots of programming experience across a wide range of languages (such as understanding Machine Code, programming some Assembler, and proficiency in C++, Pascal, Visual Basic to name a few)\n\nStrong analytical skills, procedural skills, logic flow. \n\nBeing able to look at raw data and then parse it in your head, that is: make sense out of what appears non-sensical. Thus decoding/cryptic skills.\n\nYou will also need strong mathematical skills, and understanding exactly how a computer works (on the inside) will also help tremendously.\n\nThese will all contribute significantly to being a software analysis, as well as meeting the needs of the particular task at hand.
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Depending on your country...\nChiropodist\nPodiatrist
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Where I work (a state police crime lab) there are two people with biology degrees. One has a masters in Forensic Science and the other doesn't have a masters degree at all. We test drugs. If you want to get into DNA I would recommend a master's in biology with a concentration in Forensics to get the analytical instrumentation experience. If you are interested in toxicology, controlled substances, or blood alcohol, a biology degree should be enough as long as you have enough analytical chemistry to understand the instrumentation. A master's degree will definitely make you more competitive- which is important with as popular as this field has gotten. But you don't HAVE to get a masters in forensics; it could be in biochemistry, biology, chemistry. As long as you know what GC-MS, FTIR, and head space GC are when you're done. Good luck!
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Polygraph test, No prior felony convcition, good social skills. Thats basically about it. Also a psych test is usually given also before hiring.
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First if your opinon of what they do comes from TV and the CSI show, don't,  in real life they don't carry guns, they don't go out in the field,  they are lab workers looking at evidence sent into them by either field techs or police officers.\n\nBut you will need to go to college and major in a science field, and most will have masters.  Some colleges have a forensic labs and courses of study.\n\nThere are very few crime labs though the nation, most police departments either have very small ones, or use the state crime lab.\n\nSo for now, do college prep and look more into it as you get into 12 grade and what colleges you can go to
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http://web2.iadfw.net/uthman/forensic_career.html
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A dental technician is part of the dental team who fabricates dental appliances dentures, crown and bridgework, removable prothesis and implants.\n\nThe technician will be skilled in working with gold, precious metals, dental porcelain, acrylics, and, recently CAD/CAM, in order to custom manufacture devices that will exactly fit a patient. Dental technology is changing rapidly, with new materials and techniques gaining clinical acceptance.\n\nDental technicians are educated to degree level at a post secondary facility. The profession attracts artistic, detail oriented individuals who have a flair for this unique combination of science, art, and digital dexterity.
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An aptitude for what? Math? Science? Automotive skills?