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Jason Francis, Senior Policy Advisor, UNLIREC "So this week the officers are participating in a UNLIREC shooting incident reconstruction course. This course basically revolves around reconstructing shooting crime scenes of which there are too many in our region and we help investigators whether they are crime scene investigators, police criminal investigators, or forensic fire arm officials from the national fire arm forensics science service. We support them to reconstruct the crime scene and among other things determine where the shooter may have stood, where the firearms were pointed at to the object where the shooters may have left and the impact of the bullets or cartridge cases, but mainly bullets on the material that they hit be it a door, car or human being. So at the end of this training the officers will have a greater knowledge a better appreciation for reconstructing a crime scene, using what they find on that crime scene, bullet holes, stray marks, cartridges and other bits of evidence to determine amongst other things the direction of fire, what may have caused the impact on the object, what type of fire arm or ammunition was used amongst other things. So there are 16 participants including 6 persons from the national forensic science service and the other 10 come from, 9 come from various departments within the Belize police department as well as 1 major from the Belize defense force."
