AFTE Store - Forensic Science Research & Training Center: Training For Law Enforcement Personnel

Scientific Investigators, as well as the personnel in every crime laboratory across the Unites States, faces the challenge of increasing responsibility – responsibility made more complex by increasingly sophisticated criminal activity. To assist crime laboratory personnel at the state and local levels in meeting that challenge, the FBI inaugurated a program of scientific training for law enforcement personnel in 1974. Today this program offers a wide spectrum of forensic science training to the law enforcement professional. As the need to provide such specialized training to law enforcement personnel was a most significant one, the FBI proposed the construction of a facility dedicated solely to forensic science training and research.