The New York Sate Police's Mobile Crime Scene Training Project provides law enforcement agencies across the state with the latest in crime-fighting technology and training in the investigation and processing of crime scenes. Under a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's S.T.O.P. Violence Against Women Grants Office and the New York State Division of Criminal justice Services, the program combines the NYSP Forensic Laboratory System's Mobile Crime Scene Training Trailer, Tele-Forensics and Cyclovision to provide law enforcement agencies valuable training in how to properly recognize, collect, preserve and document the processing of evidence. The Mobile Forensic Crime Scene Training Trailer is a 45-foot mock crime scene on wheels, used statewide to provide law enforcement agencies instruction on how to properly handle the role of first responder to a crime scene.
Training can be either actual hands-on instruction or beamed via satellite to a networked classroom.
The training trailer can house various types of mock crime scenes. It is equipped with strategically located video cameras, which enable students in remote locations to see actual demonstrations of how evidence should or should not be handled.