RADFORD – Radford detective A.D. Cox has completed a comprehensive academy focused on crime scene investigation.
“The Radford City Police Department is pleased to announce that Master Detective A.D Cox has successfully completed the Virginia Forensic Science Academy,” Radford Public Information Coordinator Jenni Wilder announced Monday.
Cox is a graduate of the Virginia Forensic Science Academy’s 102nd session, which concluded April 1.
“The academy’s objective is to provide high-level training to qualified crime scene search officers,” said Wilder. “Law enforcement personnel learn to properly recognize, document, collect, and preserve — for laboratory examination — items of physical evidence found at crime scenes. The academy participants become familiar with the capabilities and limitations of the modern forensic laboratory in examining the spectrum of materials which can be collected as evidence in criminal cases.
“The nine-week course of study also provides officers with the necessary background information and practical application techniques, which, coupled with the student’s previous experience, permits maximum utilization of the forensic sciences to their departments and the criminal justice system of the commonwealth.”
