September 23, 2024 through September 25, 2024 - 8:30 am to 8:30 am at
Allegheny County Police Training Academy
700 West Ridge Drive (North Park), Allison Park, PA 15101
Course Description: This course on sex assault investigations will cover a number of important aspects with a variety of speakers. Topics will include victim interviews, child and elder sex abuse, drug-facilitated sex assaults, SANE nursing and sex assault kits, forensic interviews and physical exams of children, victim advocates, and the neurobiology of trauma. Also; trial, search warrants, testifying and other legal issues to include deciphering the new SAFER Act will be discussed.
Course Outline:
- Day One: Sex Assault Investigations
- Overview and Investigations - Det. Sgt. Brian Kohlhepp, Ross Police
- Statistics
- Barriers to rape reporting
- HIPPA
- SAFER Act
- Child and Elder Sex Assault
- Other Investigative Techniques
- Pre-text phone calls
- Sex Assault Evidence Collection Kits - Deb Shane, SANE RN, UPMC Mercy
- Day Two: Sex Assault Investigations
- Child SA Investigative Assistance - Rich DiBello and Lyndsey Craft of the Child Advocacy
Center at Children's Hospital
- Children Youth and Families, practice and protocol
- Forensic Interviews
- Physical Examinations
- Victim Assistance
- Working with Victims - Megan Schroeder, Pittsburgh Action Against Rape
- Neurobiology of Trauma
- Drug Facilitated Sex Assaults -- Jen Janssen, Allegheny County ME's Office, Toxicology
- Case Studies
- Toxicology
- Child SA Investigative Assistance - Rich DiBello and Lyndsey Craft of the Child Advocacy
Center at Children's Hospital
- Day Three: Sex Assault Investigations
- Behavioral Oriented Interview - Det. Brian Kohlhepp, Ross Police
- Legal Issues - Deputy District Attorney Jen DiGiovanni
- Search Warrants
- Charging and Criminal Complaints
- Testifying and Courtroom procedure
- Victim Testimony or Case Presentation