Forensic Anthropology for Law Enforcement (24 hours)
Tue, Sep 09
|Banks County Sheriff's Office
September 9-11, 2025 This is a hands-on class outdoors! Attendees will be photographing, measuring, and diagraming a bone-scattered field and a clandestine grave. Teams will excavate an animal grave to demonstrate skills taught.
Time & Location
Sep 09, 2025, 8:00 AM – Sep 11, 2025, 5:00 PM
Banks County Sheriff's Office , 160 Windmill Farm Rd, Homer, GA 30547, USA
About the event
Students will receive 24 hours of P.O.S.T. credit for this in-service class.
Forensic Anthropology for Law Enforcement (24 hours) P.O.S.T Inservice credit
This course will cover the process of locating, documenting, and collecting human remains for investigators and crime scene specialists. The attendee will gain hands on experience with the appropriate methods for photographing, diagraming, sifting, and excavating human remains from clandestine graves as well as bone scatters. Students will also learn about entomology and basic decomposition rates and terminology. This is a labor intensive class that involves some lifting, digging, and being exposed to the weather elements.
Topics Covered:
• Locating and identifying human remains and bone scatters