Over the years I have had the opportunity to provide some international training, and this will bring me to Qatar this month (February). I will be providing training in image processing techniques to their forensic video analysts and to their latent fingerprint examiners. This training will enable all of their fingerprint examiners and video analysts to have the same level of training and build upon their specific current capabilities and protocols.

Two years ago I went to Singapore to provide training there. What a beautiful country, and what wonderful hosts the Singapore Police Services were. They were sending a couple of analysts per year for training in the US, which was costing them a bundle, and taking a long time to get everyone the training that they wanted. Bringing the training in-house saved them a lot of time and money, and provided the same training to everyone on their team.

My first opportunity to provide international training was in the 1990s in Queensland, Australia. I wasn’t sure what to expect, and was very impressed at the ways that they already implemented the use of digital photography and image processing in several areas of their agency. They were well ahead of everyone else in the use of interactive panorama imaging, integrating maps with hot spots and directional arrows into their panorama files before there was any commercially available software to do so (they wrote their own).

If you work for an agency that needs training in image analysis, forensic photography, or the use of Photoshop in your video analysis, fingerprint examination, or other forensic disciplines, I would love to discuss your training needs. Whether you are in my backyard (Southern California), somewhere else in the US, or in another part of the world, contact me and I’ll do my best to assist in your training needs!