A joint program with
Small Agency Crash Investigation 1 Online
Special Hybrid Class!
Northwestern University Center for Public Safety, COPS, and CRI-TAC / IACP have come together to make this specially designed course exclusively available to small law enforcement agencies at no cost. Apply now to join us for a 5-week blend of live remote classes (2 days per week) and asynchronous online study, projects, and exams. Northwestern's expert instructors also will be available for weekly office hours.
Provide Your Officers with a Northwestern Educational Experience
Northwestern University Center for Public Safety offers the most respected and authoritative series of crash investigation and reconstruction courses available for aspiring and experienced professionals. Our certificate courses are the only ones of their kind to be offered through a Top 10-ranked national university. Our team of expert adjunct instructors set Crash Investigation 1 students on the path to mastering the skills required to correctly, quickly, and confidently identify and collect the necessary information at a crash scene and successfully preserve evidence.
“[Crash Investigation 1] will make you think about crashes in a whole new way. . . Extremely informative and has good hands-on application. Once you finish with this course, you feel empowered to handle traffic crashes.” — Wayne R. Jakobitz, Jr., Bourbonnais (IL) Police Dept.
Based on the most recent edition of the Center for Public Safety's authoritative text, Traffic Crash Investigation, Crash 1 provides students with in-depth instruction in the techniques needed to systematically investigate a traffic crash. Students learn the best practices for recognizing and properly recording roadway and vehicle crash evidence, measuring and photographing the crash scene, and creating sketches and after-crash diagrams. The course also includes an introduction to the use of electronic devices to collect and record at-scene data (EDR) and addresses how collected data are used to reconstruct crashes.
Course Content includes:
- Preparing for a crash investigation
- Collecting information from involved persons & witnesses
- Obtaining data from vehicles
- Collecting information from roadways
- Measuring & mapping the crash scene
- Photographing the crash scene & damaged vehicles
- Vehicle examinations
- Intro to Event Data Recorders