Lab Personnel
A typical crime lab has two sets of personnel:
- Field analysts - investigators that go to crime scenes, collect evidence, and process the scene. Job titles include:
- Forensic evidence technician
- Crime scene investigator**
- Scenes of crime officer (SOCO)
- Laboratory analysts - scientists or other personnel who run tests on the evidence once it is brought to the lab (i.e., DNA tests, or bullet striations). Job titles include:
- Forensic Technician (performs support functions such as making reagents)
- Forensic Scientist/Criminalist (performs scientific analyses on evidence)
- Fingerprint Analyst
- Forensic Photographer
- Forensic Document Examiner
- Forensic Entomologist
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