Overview
Position Title: Crime Scene Analyst
Company: City Of Dallas
Location: Dallas, Texas, US
Job Description:
The Crime Scene Analyst collects, preserves, processes and handles evidence from crime scenes to assist sworn officers in apprehension and prosecution of crimes.
Responsibilities:
- Searches for, collects, and preserves physical evidence of crime scenes; interviews victims and witnesses; takes casts and impressions and performs any other crime scene analysis.
- Prepares advanced forensic graphics, photographs, diagrams, charts, sketches, drawings and fingerprint photographs to document crime scenes; give court presentations, presents analysis, and develops investigative tools and training aids ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Collects, preserves, and safely packages evidence; transports evidence or property to storage location, crime lab, or criminal court for trial; prepares bio-hazardous evidence for storage and processing.
- Recovers, unloads, and impounds firearms, ensures adherence to standard safety procedures, performs gun shot residue swabbing, and does buccal swabbing.
- Evaluates a crime scene utilizing disciplines related to crime scene investigation; logs all activities accurately and appropriately to ensure clarity and transparency for cases and processing.
- Testifies and appears in court as expert witness on crime scene evidence.
- Performs latent fingerprint searches; locates, develops, or enhances latent prints using physical, chemical, optical, or other techniques to recover, preserve, analyze, and interpret latent impressions; submits fingerprint comparisons to make positive identification to determine identity.
- Performs any and all other work as needed or assigned.
Requirements:
- Associate’s degree in a criminology, criminalistics, forensic science, life science, or physical science field.
- Two (2) years of experience general law enforcement or police support experience with a municipal, county, state or federal regulatory agency.
- One (1) year of experience in a crime lab or crime unit with responsibility for analysis involving evidence collection/preservation, interviewing and record keeping/documentation.
- High school diploma or GED plus six (6) years of the specified experience plus one (1) year of the stated crime lab/unit will meet the education and experience requirements.
- Associate’s degree in any field plus (4) years of the specified experience plus one (1) year of the stated crime lab/unit will meet the education and experience requirements.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a specified field plus one (1) year of the stated crime lab/unit experience will meet the education and experience requirements.
- Crime Scene Investigator Certification issued by International Association for Identification (IAI) plus two (2) years of the general law enforcement/police support experience will meet the education and experience requirements.
- Crime Scene Analyst certification, Crime Scene Reconstructionist certification or Senior Crime Scene Analyst certification issued by IAI will meet the education and experience requirements.