Today in the facilities of the crime scene room,
the students have been playing the part of crime scene investigators.
They've been looking at footprints, fingerprints, blood, damage to the door
and other areas
that shows a sign of disturbance within the room.
So the second room and the students went in
as plainclothes officers following a warrant for drugs.
Upon entering the room, they identified various parts of evidence
that relate to drug use, such as tinfoil, spoon, syringe, and also items
that are related to drug possession and drug
intent to supply.
I feel the benefits
of the facilities we have here at the University of Hull helps
the students tremendously due to them putting theoretical knowledge
into a practical application within the university setting.
This allows them to put in what they've learned in the lecture
theater and transfer that into on the ground knowledge.
These facilities will definitely help.
We're not getting pushed in the deep and as soon as we obviously become
police officers or any element in the criminal justice system
and we know what we're doing, so we know how to swab stuff.
We know how to swab DNA, how to deal with the crime scene in the future.
I believe that the students are in a very privileged position
here at the University of Hull to have such a good facility.
And I know that we are one of only a few universities in the UK that as a crime scene
we were available for our professional policing students and criminology students.
I was in the police for 23 years,
on the front line and I wish I had these when I was in training.