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Whether investigating civilian self-defense deployments, crimes committed with an electronic control device (ECD), complaints and/or allegations of ECD-associated excessive force, reported ECD failures, and officer training injuries from ECD exposures, officers, evidence technicians, criminal, civil, and/or administrative investigators and prosecutors need to know what ECD evidence to identify, collect, analyze, and use. The most important point may be in knowing what not to do with potential evidence to avoid it being contaminated, damaged, or destroyed. This hands-on, non-manufacture-based 16-hour program will teach you how to accurately identify, safely collect, properly analyze, and carefully apply ECD evidence to the event under investigation. Using actual ECD deployment case studies, real data, scientific studies, live ECDs, and mock crime scenes, attendees will learn how to not only identify and collect ECD evidence, but also how to identify evidentiary analysis problems and how to apply evidence in their ECD investigation.
TOPICS:

  • ECD Models (TASER® X2, X3, X26, M26, Stinger S200, Karbon Arms, etc.)
  • ECD Failures: Scientific Studies, Evidence, and Explanations
  • ECD Safety Theory: What changed on April 30, 2012
  • ECD Operational Overview
  • ECD Event Management: Evidence Identification, Collection, and Analysis Overview
  • ECD Maintenance Issues and Policy Considerations
  • ECD Event Analysis
  • ECD Event Visual Evidence: The Role of Dermatomes & Myotomes
  • ECD Event Timeline: Why timelines are vital to a successful analysis
  • ECD Analysis
  • ECD Digital Evidence Identification and Collection
  • ECD Firing Records and Related Time Stamps
  • ECD Time Stamp Discrepancies
  • ECD Data Integrity
  • ECD Physical Evidence and Analysis
  • ECD Cartridges and Evidence
  • ECD Wire Facts and Analysis
  • ECD Probe Facts and Analysis
  • ECD Trace Evidence
  • ECD Waveform Analysis and the need for ECD testing
  • ECD Evidence Collection: Dos and Donts
  • ECD Crime Scene Analysis
  • Evaluating EMS and Emergency Department Records
  • Evaluating Officer Incident Reports
  • Review of ECD Scientific Studies

Tuition
$395 per person. Tuition includes workbook, handouts, and certificate.