Burlington Detectives Attend Advanced Homicide Training

For Immediate Release

Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Contact: John Guilfoil
Phone: 781-791-7627
Email: john@jgpr.net

Contact: Jessica Sacco
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Burlington Detectives Attend Advanced Homicide Training 

BURLINGTON — Police Chief Michael Kent is pleased to announce Detectives Thomas Carlson and James Tigges completed advanced homicide training last week.

The 22nd Annual Advanced Homicide Investigation Conference is designed to meet the needs of police tasked with the investigating homicides, suicides and unnatural deaths.

Two-hundred investigators from across the United States and Canada attended the Conference, which was co-sponsored by the New Jersey State Police and the New Jersey Homicide Investigators Association. It was held at Princeton University from June 15-19.

“Every time officers have the chance to attend and utilize outside training opportunities is a benefit for this department and the community,” Chief Kent said. “Advanced instruction in any area of law enforcement allows us to improve our skills and better protect residents.”

Throughout the week, the detectives received specialized training in the following areas:

• Interview and interrogation techniques, including instruction on recognizing deceptive behavior
• Police-involved shootings and performance under extreme stress
• Wound analysis
• Infant death investigation
• Blood spatter analysis
• Crime scene reconstruction
• Leadership and decision making during homicide investigation

Attendees heard a presentation from Connecticut State Troopers who responded to and investigated the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Conn.

They also visited the Sept. 11 Memorial in New York City, where they attended a presentation about the significance evidence played in both the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Pa.

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