On Friday, March 15, 2013, the closing ceremony for the Terrorist Crime Scene Investigation Training course was held at the British Colonial Hilton Hotel. The two-week course provided twenty-four Bahamian law enforcement officers with the opportunity to learn the latest international forensics standards for documenting, collecting, and preserving crime scene evidence. The training and equipment grant, valued at approximately $60,000 USD, was provided by the U.S. Government through the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security. On hand for the event, U.S. and Bahamian law enforcement officials including Commissioner of the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) Ellison Greenslade and Regional Security officials from the U.S. Embassy.
The training focused on the preparation and initial actions when responding to a crime scene; scene management and narrative description; crime scene approach, survey, and planning; physical evidence search, photographing, note taking and sketching; and, conducting a final survey prior to release of the scene. Participants demonstrated their mastery of these skills in a final course exercise where they worked as teams to process mock terrorism crime scenes.
