FORENSIC INVESTIGATION SECTION

The Forensic Investigation Section is staffed by eight full-time investigators. The investigators respond to murders, questionable deaths, rapes, robberies, "hot prowl" and fetish burglaries, fatal traffic accidents, airplane crashes, and serial crimes.

This section provides crime scene processing services to include: photography, diagramming, evidence collection, latent print processing, crime scene analysis, grave site processing and body recovery and footwear, tool mark, and tire impression collection and analysis. It also provides in-house, latent print processing of evidence items submitted to the laboratory.

All prints developed by the investigators are submitted to the Latent Print Unit for comparison and possible entry into the Automated Fingerprint Identification System. This system is connected to eight western states: Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. The section has its own photo laboratory that consists of "one-hour" equipment and a black and white photography section. The Forensic Investigation Section is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.