Crime Scene Supervisor bei City of Miami Beach, FL

About the Department

Position Duties

• Reviews previous day's responses to crime scenes checking locations, types of evidence collected, and other relevant aspects of the investigation
• Reviews written reports daily checking for content, accuracy, and evidence of information
• Reviews all outgoing darkroom production and all incoming darkroom requests daily checking for quality and accuracy of production
• Performs variety of administrative duties including coordinating unit activities, attending administrative meetings, schedule work, monitoring budget expenditures, training, hiring, ordering supplies, and evaluating subordinates
• Supervises the maintenance of Crime Scene Unit records; prepares reports of activities
• Visits scenes of crimes and accidents when necessary in order to assist investigating police officers in compiling evidence, by fingerprinting, photography, plaster casting, and/or by other methods of police investigation
• May develop, lift, and photograph latent fingerprints, prepare exhibits of findings for evidence, and give expert testimony thereon
• May furnish technical assistance to police and identification personnel in the classification and identification of fingerprints and other identification procedures
• May develop and maintain latent fingerprint files and establish/maintain files on single and partial fingerprints found at crime scenes for possible future identification
• Performs related work as required

Minimum Qualifications

• Associate of Arts degree in police science, criminal justice, or related field
• Experience can substitute for education on a year-for-year basis
• Four (4) years full-time paid experience performing the duties of an Identification Technician
• Completion of an approved course in police identification techniques (i.e. FBI 80 hours basic and advanced finger printing or Institute of Applied Science Crime Scene Investigations)
• Shift work includes nights, weekends, and holidays.