GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WILX) - On Wednesday in Grand Rapids, police departments from across Michigan participated in homicide school training, hosted by the Michigan State Police and Michigan State University’s College of Criminal Justice.
The training provides law enforcement with the opportunity to learn about new techniques and technologies in homicide investigation, a field that has been ongoing for over 25 years.
It is a five-day training event where the first two days are lecture-based, followed by “scenario day”, and then two more days of debriefing.
“They get dispatched to a suspicious death, and they investigate it, they follow the evidence, and eventually the goal is to figure out who committed what appears to be a homicide, and then get an arrest warrant for that person is the