Description

You do not need to be a forensic analyst to read a bloodstain scene. You need to know enough to protect what matters, document what you see, and give the experts something to work with. This 1-hour course covers bloodstain pattern awareness from the patrol and detective perspective. Idaho POST-certified.

Bloodstain evidence is fragile. The officer who walks through it, parks a cruiser near it, or fails to photograph it before it is disturbed may not know what was lost. This course covers what patrol officers and detectives need to recognize at a crime scene so the evidence survives long enough to matter.

What This Course Covers

• How blood behaves when it leaves the body: velocity, angle, surface, and the patterns each produces
• Recognizing high-velocity versus low-velocity spatter and what each suggests about the event
• Cast-off patterns, transfer stains, and void patterns: how to spot them and why they matter
• Scene preservation priorities before analysts arrive
• Photography and documentation standards for bloodstain evidence
• How bloodstain evidence is used in reconstruction and prosecution
• Common scene contamination errors and how to avoid them

1 hour. $40. Idaho POST-certified. Online, self-paced. This is not lab-level analysis training. It is the working knowledge that keeps evidence usable and investigators credible when bloodstain questions come up in court.