This course is approved for 4.5 hours of continuing education credits by Missouri POST and the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators (ABMDI) and the International Association for Identification (IAI) for Blood Pattern and Crime Scene ceu's
Who Should Take This Course
- Law Enforcement Patrol Officers/ Supervisors
- Detectives and Investigators
- Medicolegal Death Investigators
- Coroners
- Interested Students
This introduction Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA) course is designed for the student who wants to learn how to correctly identify and document bloodstain patterns. It will begin with the fundamental principles of BPA and theories behind pattern formation and evolve to practical application demonstrations including scenario-based training and mock scenes.
By the end of the training, the student will feel comfortable understanding a scene and be able to understand the actions that could or could not have occurred. The student will also be able to make some preliminary decisions on whether what they are being told matches what they are seeing and to know when to contact an expert in bloodstain analysis.
This class will be useful to crime scene investigators, coroner and medical examiner investigators, laboratory personnel who analyze bloodstained evidence, detectives who interview individuals involved in scenes of bloodshed, and prosecutors who should understand the discipline before presenting BPA evidence in court.
Our online video training and is designed to be interactive with students by random quizzes and, in some cases, a final exam. Student login times, location IP, and activity time within the course are tracked per student by Mixpanel to verify the time spent in the course if needed. Videos cannot be fast-forwarded or skipped, and testing cannot be done until the videos are fully watched.
Many of the videos have a unique symbol or picture that will appear prominently in the video and is part of the test questions, this will ensure the video has been watched, quizzes must be passed with a 100% so missing the proof of watch image will ensure the quiz is not passed and thus the student cannot move forward in the course. Also, all quizzes are presented in random question-answer order so each quiz attempt will have questions and answers in an order different than previously shown. This prevents students from sharing answers with other students.
Certificates will only be available for print after the successful completion of the course material. Each certificate will indicate that it was an online training and will note the approval control number and the CLEE hours given.