“While every crime scene is unique, outdoor scenes are especially challenging because agents have to work against the clock, as the elements change the nature of evidence over time,” said Clayton Drown, a special agent and OSI Det. 631 commander. “JBER conservation officers taught us blood drops in snow can be carried off by scavenging birds or a gust of wind, direct sunlight can change a footprint in snow, and a bullet casing could become difficult to recover.”
To mitigate these unique problems, the exercise focused on three techniques: how to find bullet casings, how to cast foot and tire prints, and how to collect a blood sample all left behind in Alaska’s dry snow. Dry snow is powdery and easily blown around by wind.
Fort Hood Independent Review Committee presents findings on Armyâs CID during hearing
Members of the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee presented their findings and recommendations to change the Armyâs Criminal Investigative Division (CID) at a House Armed Services Subcommittee hearing Tuesday.
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FORT HOOD, TX â Members of the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee presented their findings and recommendations to change the Armyâs Criminal Investigative Division (CID) at a House Armed Services Subcommittee hearing Tuesday.
The committee shed light on a number of issues, including problems with criminal investigations on post.
Investigators said the agents who worked Spc. Vanessa Guillenâs case, as well as several others at Fort Hood, were under-staffed, under-trained and under-resourced.
A mural in Washington depicts slain soldier Spc. Vanessa Guillen on July 13, 2020. (Carolyn Kaster/AP) Army Criminal Investigation Command’s ongoing problems may justify an overhaul of its command structure, similar to what the Naval Criminal Investigative Service went through following a major sexual assault scandal in the 1990s. How NCIS changed in the wake of that scandal was discussed during congressional testimony Tuesday. The hearing was held one week after proposals to redesign CID were outlined in briefing documents obtained by Army Times. One proposal suggested recasting CID as an independent organization with civilian leadership, similar to what NCIS looks like today. A second proposal, which was labeled “recommended” in the documents, would retain the current military police leadership while hiring more civilian agents.
WASHINGTON Lawmakers expressed frustration Tuesday with how slowly improvements are being made to criminal investigation at Fort Hood, Texas, where rates of violent crime and sexual assaults are particularly high.
They grilled the commander of the Army s Criminal Investigation Command, or CID, who said she is seizing this moment to correct the staffing and resource problems within her agency that led to sweeping failures in tracking and solving cases. We can and we will do better, Maj. Gen. Donna Martin told the House Armed Services subcommittee on military personnel. She said the Army is working to restructure and modernize CID, and is considering adding more civilian investigators and creating special teams that could respond to major criminal cases when needed at any base.
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