Areas covered will include prevention methods, warning signs, investigative requirements, coroner and medical examiner involvement, civil liability, family interaction, and much more.
Suicide is a critical issue in today’s jails. Studies have shown that the rate of suicide in local city and county jails is much greater than the general population. As our jail population continues to grow, the risk of suicide in your facility becomes higher.
To deal with the increased risk of inmate suicide, officers must be trained to identify the warning signs of a suicide attempt and be prepared to respond with the appropriate action. Jail officers must also recognize the consequences of failure to respond and render treatment when such action is indicated. To avoid liability, the officers should be aware of the position that the courts have historically taken regarding the occurrence of suicides in jails.
Death in a confinement facility is an event that has an impact on staff and inmates, as well as the family and friends of the deceased. The detention or confinement facility and the officers in charge can incur civil as well as criminal charges due to such deaths. It is critical that detention officers, police, and supervisors of city, county, and state agencies are properly trained in the prevention and, proper investigation of deaths that occur within a detention facility.
Coroner and medical examiner investigators must be familiar with local policies and prevention standards as well as proper investigative protocol before death occurs.
Key Course Takeaways
- Scene investigation practices
- Identifying Evidence in jail deaths, Proper documentation of a death scene
- Why suicide scenes are not always obvious
Instructor: Mark Bailey
Mark heads The Criminal Justice Program for Rolla Public Schools. Prior to this, he provided law enforcement and Jail training as a partner in the consulting firm Weber Criminal Justice Consulting, LLC, from October 2016 to September 2022.
His expertise is in investigative techniques of statement analysis and interpreting body language, techniques he learned from his ten weeks in the FBI National Academy. He has taught these advanced tactics across the country for the past two years and has used the techniques to assist agencies in investigating complex cases.
Death Investigation Training Academy
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