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The aim of this course:

Dates

• Arson methods

• Causes of fires in road vehicles

• Low voltage electricity

• Flash points and auto ignition temperatures of various products used in motor vehicles

• Static electricity

• Impact

• Fire Development

• Setting a deliberate fire - inter group

• Predicting fire development

• Investigations and group work

• Evidence available and preservation

• DNA opportunities

• Fire pattern analysis

• Post fire scene examination

• Vehicle Fire Investigation – A systematic approach

• Recording the fire scene

• Sympathetic fire fighting

The process:

·    Interactive group discussion on vehicle fires and their possible causes including case studies of previous incidents that have occurred.

followed by:

• Determining the fire temperature.

• What should be considered in ascertaining the cause of fire.

• The Role of the Fire Service.

• Risk Assessments for the Investigator

• Looking for evidence

• Recording the evidence

• Recording the fire scene

• DNA opportunities

• Practical fire scenarios on fire spread

• The chemistry of fire and flashpoints covering – petrol, diesel, brake fluid, liquefied petroleum gas, etc.

• Sympathetic extinguishing methods for evidence and DNA preservation.

• Group discussions on fire development, methods of deliberate fire setting

• Setting a deliberate fire for the other group to investigate

• Presentation including evidence gathered to course

• Fire investigation on vehicles that have been involved in fire both accidental and deliberate.

• Reviews and presentations by groups.

Surrey Police and Toyota Europe in BA.

VFI Essex 2011 - Hertfordshire FRS

VFI Essex - review session (Merseyside & Hertfordshire FRS, Strathclyde Police and assessors)

Essex 2011

Course Directors Chris Lowe and Richard Baker

13hours CPD for IFE

 

Richard Baker A.M.I.R.T.E., A.M.S.O.E., Hon.M.I.V.R., M.Inst.Pet. Was until recently Chief Fire Officer for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania after setting up from scratch a fully functional fire, rescue and ambulance service including a fire investigation team based on UK standards.  This now covers Kenya as well and includes air ambulance response covering some 588,000 square miles.  Richard was co-author of The Energy Institute’s code of practice on the product and vehicle recovery of low flash products transported by road tanker and was founder of the national Vehicle Fire Investigation course that has IFE CPD points.  He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers, Associate Member of the Society of Operational Engineers and an Honorary Member of the Institute of Vehicle Recovery.  He is also author of the Police Blue Book on dealing with HAZMAT incidents, author of the risk management distant learning BSc programme for the University of Hong Kong, author of the Police and Forensic Science Fire Investigation handbook and Exercise Director for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Counter Terrorism Exercises in Central and East Africa.

CHRIS LOWE GIFireE MFSSoc IAAI - CFI Chris served 31 years with the UK Fire Service where he developed and managed the Fire Investigation team as well as continuing as a specialist Fire Investigator in the role of Group Manager and is now an independent Fire Investigator in the private sector. His Investigations have involved incidents including fatalities, serial arsonists, and large financial losses ranging from small domestic to large industrial and commercial properties and vehicles, and he has prepared reports for Crown and Coroner’s courts. In recent years he has become involved in specialist work in Vehicle Fire Investigation and the identification and recovery of forensic evidence from vehicles involved in fire. He has developed and delivered Fire Investigation training to Fire Officers, Police Officers, Forensic Investigators, Insurance and MOD investigators. Chris was a member of the East Midlands Regional Fire Investigation Liaison Team where he was involved in the formation of Fire Investigation policy and procedure for the Fire Service, Police Service and Police Forensic Investigation teams. He has presented at National conferences on Arson, Fire Investigation, Management of Fire Investigation and Auto Crime Investigation An active member of the International Association of Arson Investigators (IAAI) he is now the East Midlands Regional Representative and has achieved a Certified Fire Investigator (CFI) qualification with the IAAI. He is also a Graduate of the Institution of Fire Engineers and a professional Member of the Forensic Science Society.