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Technical Working Groups

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Technical Working Groups (or TWGs) were created by the National Institute of Justice to create crime scene guides for state and local law enforcement. The guides were individually developed by a separate Technical Working Group tasked with a single topic. The groups were a multidisciplinary group of content-area experts from across the United States. The groups included urban and rural jurisdictions as well as Federal agencies representatives. Each participating member was experienced in the area of crime scene investigation and evidence collection in the criminal justice system from the standpoints of law enforcement, prosecution, defense or forensic science.

Contents

Topics

Technical Technology Working Group topics have included:

Guides

During the several years of their existence they developed numerous guides including the following:

  • Crime Scene Investigation: A Reference for Law Enforcement (pdf, 60 pages) Published June 2004
  • Death Investigation: A Guide for the Scene Investigator (pdf, 72 pages) Published November 1999
  • Fire and Arson Scene Evidence: A Guide for Public Safety Personnel (pdf, 73 pages) Published June 2000
  • Guide for Explosion and Bombing Scene Investigation (pdf, 64 pages) Published July 2000
  • Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First Responders (pdf, 93 pages) First Edition published July 2001, second edition published 2008

    • The Technical Working Groups were designed to be short term in duration to respond to a topic. Longer term groups exists under other organizations such as the FBI's Scientific Working Group (SWG's) on Digital Evidence.

    References

    Technical Working Groups Wikipedia
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