Death Investigation - Continuing Education

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'To Find the Evidence'

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Greetings!

We are pleased and excited to announce that Forensic Investigators of Colorado, LLC, has developed 'Death Investigation for Private Investigators', an online continuing education course for private investigators. This course is also available to investigators seeking knowledge in death investigations, and as continuing education for medicolegal death investigation professionals.

Summary

This death investigation course is a basic introduction into the concepts of the official investigation of death, such as by a coroner or medical examiner office, and the role that the private investigator may play in an equivocal death investigation. As might be expected, there are similar roles, overlapping roles and, of course different roles and responsibilities.

This course is designed to provide the investigator currently working in, or interested in working in, the death and personal injury investigation fields the knowledge and insight to informatively and intelligently conduct a criminal defense or civil investigation in which serious bodily injury or death is the subject matter of the litigation.

This course is approved for 14 hours of instruction in Texas, Oklahoma, and Iowa; 12 hours in Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky; 7 hours in Louisiana; 8 hours in Kansas; 10 hours in Oregon and South Carolina; 6 hours in North Carolina; 4 hours in New Mexico.

An exam will be administered upon the conclusion of the program. If the candidate passes with a score of 75% or better, a certificate of completion will be issued in accordance with state licensing authority standards.

Details are available at:

http://pieducation.com/catalog/about-medico-legal-death-investigations.shtml
or at www.PrivateInvestigations.org

Death Investigation for Private Investigators

About the authors:
Dean A. Beers, CLI began his career in 1987 and is a Certified Legal Investigator and expert in criminal defense homicide and civil equivocal death investigations. He is certified in Medicolegal Death Investigation and served as a forensic autopsy assistant. He has lectured and authored multiple articles, peer-reviewed white papers, and provided expert testimony on forensic investigations and pattern injury analysis, as well as private investigator protocols. In addition to this recent book, 'Practical Methods for Legal Investigations', he previously authored 'Professional Locate Investigations'.

Karen S. Beers, BSW has been a Legal Investigator since 1996. In addition to her skilled interactions with troubled youths, she also trained and worked as a Deputy Coroner at the Larimer County Medical Examiner's Office. This background provides essential skills and knowledge in their Personal Injury, Negligence and Death investigations.

Mr. Beers is the Board Chairman of the Professional Private Investigators Association of Colorado, Region 6 CLI Representative of the National Association of Legal Investigators and has a column called Forensic Focus in The Legal Investigator, NALI's trade magazine, Membership Chair of the National Council of Investigation and Security Services, Affiliate Consultant member of the National Association of Medical Examiners, and holds additional memberships in the World Association of Detectives, International Association for Identification, and Mensa USA.

Together they operate their agency, Forensic Investigators of Colorado LLC, from Colorado and consult nationally. They have two daughters, a granddaughter and identical twin grandsons.

Five Qualities of a Professional Investigator...

Skills Appropriate for the Assignment
Law firms and medical offices specialize - Professional Investigators also specialize. Their casework and continuing education should also be in your specialized areas.

Experience and Knowledge
Professional Investigators strive to maintain and further these. All professions have requirements of continuing education. The CLI program requires extensive compliance with continuing education.

Responsible and Ethical Conduct
Every component of the investigation has evidentiary considerations. Professional Investigators hold themselves to a higher standard and leaves no question as to the admissibility of their evidence. Information without ethics is not evidence.

Effective Communication
Professional Investigators maintain communication with the attorney, client, witnesses, and other key persons in the investigation. Moreover, reports are the product of an organized investigation and should reflect the work product you expect.

Keyword - 'Professional'
Honesty, Integrity & Intelligence. These define Professional Investigators and gives you the confidence that your case is in competent and skilled hands.

Dean and Karen

Forensic Investigators of Colorado, LLC, specializes in the medicolegal consultation and investigation of cases involving traumatic injuries or death, as well as cases involving serious criminal charges.

We are Professional Reliable Investigators Defining Excellence, with PRIDE in every assignment.

Thank You. Please contact us with any questions or for additional information on these topics and our related services.

Sincerely,

Dean A. Beers, CLI (beersda@Forensic-Investigators.com)
Karen S. Beers, BSW (beersks@Forensic-Investigators.com)
Forensic Investigators of Colorado, LLC
Office: (970) 691-0813
Fax: (970) 372-4717

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