Professional aid: Australian police to offer forensic training

KARACHI:

The Australian Federal Police will hold six-month-long training for senior police staff and forensic officers, in Canberra, from January to July 2012.

The Canberra National Centre for Forensic Studies will help the Australian police with the training. The programme is called the Forensic Capability Development Training Project. Courses will include explosives and bomb scene awareness, evidence recognition and recovery, introduction to firearm examination, laboratory management, forensic biology, DNA and finger-print recovery and enhancement. Bomb scene awareness includes the theories of explosives and construction of improvised explosive devices, forensic examination of relevant post-blast scenes, recovering evidence and the use of evidence for intelligence.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 12^th, 2011.