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Evidence
Response Team Unit
Mission
The Evidence Response Team Unit (ERTU) enables FBI field office Evidence Response
Teams (ERTs) to collect evidence supporting FBI priority investigations
in a professional, competent, and systematic manner by providing ERTs
with training, equipment, and forensic expertise.
The Program
The program consists of ERTs in all 56 FBI field offices. These highly-trained
and equipped teams, totaling about 1,200 personnel, operate at a high level of
competence to ensure evidence is collected in such a manner that it can be introduced
in courts throughout the U.S. and the world. ERTs strive to be the model for
crime scene processing from the standpoint of safety, expertise, training, equipment,
and ability.
The Team
Supervisory special agents, mechanical engineer, logistics management specialist,
forensic K9 operations specialist, management and program analyst, and assistants.
The Work
- Provide training,
crime scene equipment and supplies, and on-scene support to field ERTs
and coordination for response at national and international special events;
- Provide basic forensic
evidence instruction to new agents training classes and to the National
Academy, as well as advanced forensic training for all field ERT personnel;
- Provide
canine/handler teams to assist federal, state, and local
law enforcement agencies.
- Develop new ERT software to collect
and record information and print records relating to the crime
scene for use in court proceedings.
- Oversee the FBI’s Underwater Search and Evidence
Response Team (USERT) program
and the FBI’s Human Scent Evidence Team (HSET). USERTs in several FBI
field offices provide an underwater search capability with trained divers
and sophisticated equipment to assist underwater search and recovery for evidence
and human remains.
The
HSET
is
based
at
the
ERTU
and
provides capability to track persons associated with certain items of evidence
through
the use of
specially trained canines.
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