Daryl W. Clemens, Editor
From the Editor
Hello again
everyone. Our
inaugural conference
is over, and was a
great success. We
had attendees from
15 states and
13 countries, quite
a turnout!
Everything ran
smoothly, and
everyone enjoyed
themselves. Take a
look below for more
details and some
photos from the
event.
Daryl
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W. Clemens
CSI Conference 2014
 ICSIA's
first conference was held from
May 13-15 in Little Rock,
Arkansas. Turnout for a first
time conference was very good,
with just over a hundred
participants. There were three
days of speakers and breakout
sessions, with presentation
topics which included crime
scene protocol, shooting
reconstruction, bloodstain
patterns, infant death and more.
International presenters spoke
about the Jamaican scenes of
crime unit, and research from
the U.K. into fingerprint
processing on plastic materials.
Lots of networking took place
during and after hours, with a
great turnout each night at the
hospitality suite, where
everyone could relax and talk
shop.
With such a good turnout, and
nothing but positive feedback
from the attendees, ICSIA is
exploring options for a
conference in May of 2015. More
details will be announced in a
future newsletter, and we hope
to see you all there if it works
out.
Special thanks go to all the
Board members who worked hard
making sure everything was
ready, arranging presenters,
transportation and all the
myriad of details that go into a
successful conference.
Wildlife CSI Training
by Crispian Barlow
The Technical
Advisor, Protected Areas
Enforcement for WWFs Greater
Mekong Region, has developed a
series of courses designed to
improve the capacity of PA
staff, provincial multi-agency
teams and management. The
process for developing this
curricular included:
- The identification of
skill sets required by
different levels of
conservation and enforcement
personnel using the ASEAN
competence Standards for
Protected Area personnel.
- The identification of a
curricular based on these
skill sets
- The development of
training modules in Field
Craft, Law Enforcement,
Natural Resource Monitoring
and Assessment.
At the WWF
Protected Areas Workshop, hosted
by WWF-CarBi, in Hue in Dec
2011, it was agreed that
training within the region would
be based on these training
curricula for rangers and
related staff in the regions
protected areas, the mobile
teams operating in provinces as
well as with government
counterparts.
This course report
concerns the law enforcement and
field craft course presented by
WWFs transboundary CarBi
project, to Forest Protection
Department rangers, Vietnamese
policemen, and Vietnamese Border
Army soldiers tasked with
forming Multi-agency team (MAT)
patrols for Bach Ma National
Park.
Read more about the training
program in the three documents
below (.pdf format).
wildlife_csi_training.pdf
conservation_oriented_patrol_standards.pdf
wcsi_guide.pdf
Examining the Deceased:
An Investigator’s
Perspective
by Wes Sossamon
Editors note: This
article originally appeared
in the July 2001 Edition,
but we felt it needed to be
repeated.
Generally, the examination
of the body should be
conducted in a systematic
manner that is followed as a
matter of routine in all
cases. The most significant
advantage of this procedure
is that the investigator
will quickly develop the
ability to focus upon
conducting the examination
within specific parameters
in a sequential method.
Another important
consideration is that the
examination is more thorough
and accurate because
specific areas are not
cursorily viewed or totally
ignored in favor of some
other part of the body that
obviously bears relevance to
the inquiry. Moreover, since
a systematic protocol
requires the examination to
be conducted the same way
all the time, the
investigator can perform
competently even under the
stressful conditions of a
fast-moving investigation or
a high profile case because
the procedure becomes almost
second-nature.
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