Student Tribune
MCC Law and Criminal Justice Student Interns Participate in Public Safety Mock Crime Scene
On Thursday, March 31, 2022, current MCC Law and Criminal Justice students
enrolled in MCC’s Department of Public Safety’s Internship Program
participated in a mock crime scene at MCC’s Brighton Campus. The mock
crime scene was designed by current Public Safety Technician/Guard Patricia
Hunt and Guard Sarah DeLaus who also served as instructors throughout.
Guard Hunt is currently one of two Crime Scene Evidence Technicians within
Monroe Community College’s Department of Public Safety and is assigned to
the afternoon shift. She completed her New York State Crime Scene Evidence
Technician Certification at Monroe Community College’s Public Safety
Training Facility in 2016. Guard Hunt is also a certified New York State
General Topics Instructor and currently teaches the New York State 8-hour
annual Security Guard course to Public Safety personnel at the Public Safety
Training Facility. Guard DeLaus completed Instructor Development School in
September of 2021 at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Center for
Domestic Preparedness and currently guest lectures in College Orientation
Seminar classes about MCC’s Department of Public Safety.
MCC Students spent the afternoon and early evening processing the mock crime
scene. Students were able to apply what they have learned from their coursework
throughout their time in the Law and Criminal Justice Program and in their
internship. Students were also taught basic crime scene processing fundamentals
to help guide them in the process. Students successfully marked, collected, and
processed various types of evidence from the scene by doing the following:
- Using critical thinking skills
- Securing the scene
- Note taking
- Taking photographs with and without scale for the proper
measurements of specific evidence
- Dusting for fingerprints
- DNA Extraction
- Learning the proper way to collect evidence
- Appropriate documentation
- Chain of Custody
MCC Department of Public Safety thanks the interns who participated in the
first mock crime scene and wishes them well in their future career endeavors.
Thank you to Housing and Residence Life Director Jamia Danzy for allowing the
use of a residence hall suite for the mock crime scene location.
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Ferguson, Katie
Public Safety
04/26/2022