Show Criminal investigation class plays detective in teaching I process H wy Ed Lile Staff Writer OHN Cluff instructor in Criminal Justice JOHN LORN and former police officer with the Honolulu Police lice Department believes the b best st way to stress a subject in his Criminal Investigation class is to use scenario settings as group train- train l' l ing It is not unusual to hear shots ring out or orto t. t to step into one of the rooms of the lower level of the Construction Trades Building and z find a belligerent suspect being interrogated by the students of Cluffs Cluff's class Or a scene area may have been cordoned off for an investigation investigation investigation of a crime including crime including casting foot footprints footprints prints photographing evidence or digging for fora a suspected victim The subject material of C CJ Criminal Investigation Investigation Investigation In In- I deals with the duties and problems of investigating officers officers' use of records and preparation for trial There are ten specialized forensic roles in criminal investigation investigation 1 ID officer forensic surveyor video videotaping videotaping taping specialist criminalist or forensic scientist scientist scientist for trace evidence and serological r f evidence forensic pathologist forensic odon- odon of forensic psychologist forensic anthropologist district attorney and the ballistics ballistics ballistics bal bal- specialist alist Each of these areas requires r investigations report preparation and case studies t g Cluff an adjunct instructor teaches the i t i basics lasics of each Many of his scenarios may be bev F v f t i n J f. f fi t J x r mx y X Vc it ly Z ii 1 t Wi t. t j 1 ii t If Ift t J f pj JYl directed at family disputes neighbor disputes parents and babysitters or threats that would lead to bodily harm Each requires different procedures and is within a forensic specialty Cluff feels that the students gain a more realistic realistic realistic realis realis- tic approach when the scenario approach is used He requires the scene notes and up follow-up reports All are analyzed and graded The Criminal Justice program is designed to provide students with a basic liberal education as well as offer students professional education education tion tron in Criminal Justice This program articulates articulates articulates lates with both the Utah State Police Academy and Weber State University Two degrees a are e offered in the program a year two-year AAS and ald a year two-year AS degree for students who plan to continue a year four-year program program program pro pro- program gram consists of one contract faculty member and seven adjunct instructors Many of the students from Criminal Justice training have lave entered Utah's police academy program |