Crime Scene

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation has approximately two crime scene search specialists per district to assist SBI agents and federal, state and local law enforcement agencies with processing crime scenes. Specialists assist with scenes involving crimes such as breaking and entering, larceny, armed robbery, bank robbery, sexual assault, assaults, missing persons and homicide.

Crime scene search specialists take photographs, compile crime scene diagrams and prepare reports about crime scenes. Specialists also collect evidence for analysis including fingerprints, footwear impressions, tire track impressions, firearms, tool marks, bodily fluids, glass, paint, hair and fiber evidence.

In addition, crime scene search specialists across the state are trained as members of the clandestine laboratory team and assist with processing methamphetamine labs that involve noxious gases, hazardous waste and potential explosion hazards.