Registration is now open for all 2012 Internet Crimes Against Children Special Investigation Training – Cell Phone Investigation, Collection and Law classes. NFSTC and HTCI will deliver this free three-day, hands-on course to ICAC Task Force members and other investigators multiple times at locations around the country. Click here for course schedule and registration information.

NFSTC’s free forensic anthropology workshop is now available online. This workshop, hosted by North Carolina State University and delivered by anthropologists from universities including University of Tennessee and Yale, focuses on advances in anthropology as they relate to the identification of human remains. Access the videos and presentations at http://projects.nfstc.org/tech_transition/anthropology/index.htm.

NFSTC begins delivery of the Intermediate Crime Scene Investigation course today with the opening of online coursework. Almost 200 investigators from across the country will be participating in this unique distance learning opportunity. Following completion of the online work, select trainees will participate in lecture, practical exercises and mock crime scene scenarios at NFSTC’s facilities in Largo, Florida.

Presentations and videos from September’s technology transition workshop, Field Detection of Drugs and Explosive Odor Signatures Using Planar Solid Phase Microextraction Ion Mobility Spectrometry (PSPME-IMS), are now available online free from NFSTC. This training provides law enforcement with a novel approach for detecting and sampling illicit drugs and explosives.

Come see NFSTC at the IACP Conference in Chicago. Stop by booth #2131 to check out the interactive crime scene scenario, get the scoop on virtual reality crime scene training, learn about new digital evidence training, and more. While you’re there, register to win an iPad!