Instructors

King Brown, CEP
Sunday, January 10, 2010
8:00am – 11:00am
King has been in the forensic science field for 21 years. He holds a Masters degree in Criminal Justice and is a Senior Certified Crime Scene Analyst, Certified Forensic Photographer, and a Certified Latent Print Examiner with the International Association for Identification (IAI). King is also a Crime Scene Supervisor for the West Palm Beach Police Department, Chairman of the Forensic Photography Certification Board for the State of Florida and the Chairman of the Crime Scene Sub-committee for the IAI. Along with those responsibilities, King is an instructor for IPTM—Orlando, The Taylor Group, NALETC, GCFA—teaching Crime Scene Photography, Crime Scene Search & Recovery, and Advanced Latent Fingerprints classes. In addition, he’s an Adjunct Professor at Palm Beach Community College in the Crime Scene Technology Associates Degree Program. King has also been a lecturer at the IAI Training Conferences since 1996.

Dawn Watkins, CEP
Sunday, January 10, 2010
8:00am – 11:00am
In the field of forensics for 32 years (formerly with the Federal Bureau of Investigations), Dawn is currently a Latent Print Examiner/Crime Scene Investigator with the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department in Florida. Along with those responsibilities, she is a lecturer at the IAI Training Conferences (since 1996) and an instructor for IPTM—Orlando, The Taylor Group and NALETC—teaching Advanced Latent Fingerprints classes. Dawn holds a Masters degree in Criminal Justice and is a Certified Latent Print Examiner, Certified Senior Crime Scene Analyst, and a Certified Forensic Photographer with the International Association for Identification (IAI).

Edward “Ted” Robinson
Sunday, January 10, 2010
2:00pm – 6:00pm
In 1971, Ted Robinson began his career in law enforcement by joining the Arlington County (VA) Police Department. He was promoted to Police Agent—their name for crime scene investigator (CSI)—in 1980, then promoted to Master Police Officer (top level CSI) in 1983. Since then, Ted has earned several accreditations and attended educational courses, including the Virginia Forensic Science Academy in Richmond, Virginia (1988), certification as a Senior Crime Scene Analyst by the IAI (1990), the Master of Forensic Science degree at George Washington University (1991), and the Certified Evidence Photographer certification from the Evidence Photographers International Council (2009).

After 25 years, Ted retired from the ACPD, and immediately began working as a civilian supervisor with the Baltimore County Police Department’s Forensic Services Section (Crime Lab), supervising a shift of mostly civilian CSI and training all new hires. In 2000, he was hired to create the CSI concentration for the Master of Forensic Science degree at George Washington University. He still finds this career extremely rewarding, and has even published a book, Crime Scene Photography (Academic Press).
 
Samuel Gardner, M.Photog.Cr., CPP
Sponsored by Canon
Monday, January 11, 2010
8:00am – 4:00pm
With over 20 years experience creating evidence photos for both criminal and civil use, Sam’s client list includes the FBI, Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office, Bellingham Police Department, and U.S. Customs.
He is a contract instructor for Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission and presents programs on photographic evidence practices and protocols for major crime scenes. In addition, Sam is a Certified Professional Photographer (earned from the Professional Photographic Certification Commission). He also holds the PPA Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman degrees. 

David Knoerlein, CEP
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
8:00am – 4:00pm
“Digital-Dave” is a Certified Evidence Photographer and the President of Forensic Digital Imaging, Inc., a consulting firm that provides forensic imaging services to law enforcement, corporations, and the legal community. The Justice Department contracted him as the Imaging Systems Manager to help design and manage an imaging system for documenting the mass grave exhumations in Iraq. This system categorized and stored 90,000 images, and his strict Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) legitimized the system to withstand any scrutiny in World Court. These evidentiary images played a major role in the prosecution of Saddam Hussein and others for genocide in Iraq.

Prior to the Iraq mission, David worked for the Broward County Sheriff’s Office in South Florida and the Baltimore County Police Department, where he was introduced to forensic digital imaging. He developed and implemented SOP for the use of digital imaging technologies for Baltimore County’s law enforcement, later shared by agencies across the nation. In addition, he testified for the prosecution in various cases, notably the State of Florida vs. Victor Reyes. David qualified and testified as an expert in digital imaging, dispelling the misgivings of digital image enhancements as voodoo science. The Reyes case is one of only a few cases in the United States to successfully pass a Frye hearing that challenged the use of digital imaging enhancement technologies.

David was sub-contracted by MoreHits (now Foray Technologies) to provide image management training to police agencies across the country. The Miami Dade Metropolitan Police Institute also recruited him to provide digital enhancement classes.

Today, you can find him speaking at law enforcement conferences across the country…and featured in issues of Evidence Technology magazine. He is currently researching the issues surrounding the long-term storage and archiving of digitally captured images of evidential value.

Scott T. De Broux, CEP
Thursday, January 7 - Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Scott De Broux has an Associate of Science degree, a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing with a minor in Economics, over 13 years of full-time law enforcement experience, and 14 years of military experience with the Wisconsin Army National Guard. But prior to law enforcement, he was an amateur photographer for 10 years, giving him over 23 years of photography experience.
Scott started his law enforcement career with the Antigo Wisconsin Police Department, taking an immediate interest in (and specialized training in) crime scene processing and police photography. While there, Scott qualified as a Field Training Officer and wrote the field training program. He transferred to the Appleton Wisconsin Police Department in 1999 and soon qualified as a Patrol Evidence Technician. In 2004, he was appointed to the Identification Section, where his duties include crime scene investigation, latent fingerprint processing, crime scene and forensic photography, forensic video analysis, management of the department’s evidence and property control function, etc. He also served five years on the SWAT Team. In addition, Scott teaches in the Recruit Academy, Forensic Science Applications Academics (classroom and online), and specialized training related to CSI work, especially photography.

Of his 1800 hours of specialized training, nearly 1190 hours are related to crime scene investigation and forensic analysis of evidence. With specializations in police and forensic photography and forensic video analysis, Scott is frequently called upon by other agencies in the state to assist in these areas. He also specializes in the use of alternate light sources for the documentation of injuries.
Scott is a member of the International Association for Identification (IAI), Wisconsin Association for Identification (WAI), and Law Enforcement Emergency Services Video Association (LEVA). He was part of the Evidence Photographers International Council (EPIC) Certification Committee, helping create standards and test items for the international certification program for forensic and police photographers.

Published in Evidence Technology magazine and Government Video magazine, Scott also coauthored a research paper on infrared photography in the criminal justice system. And along with being a Certified Forensic Video Technician through LEVA and a Certified Evidence Photographer through EPIC, Scott received a 2006 Outagamie County Best Badge Award for trial preparation and testimony in two homicide cases that resulted in convictions.