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Who have been on the courses:

  • AXA
  • Avon Fire Brigade 
  • British Airports Authority Fire Service - Heathrow
  • British Airways
  • British Army
  • Buckinghamshire Fire& Rescue 
  • Chrysler UK
  • Cival Aviation Authority
  • Cleveland Fire Service
  • Cumbria Police (SOCO)
  • D & G Cars, Essex
  • Defence Fire Service
  • DETR (Vehicle Inspectorate)
  • Dorset Police (CIU) - SOCO
  • DSTL
  • East Sussex Fire Brigade
  • Eberspächer UK
  • Edge Anderson - Ireland
  • Fiat GB
  • Forensic Science (Lambeth)
  • GMP Police
  • Hereford & Worcester Fire Service
  • Hertfordshire Constabulary - SOCO 
  • Iron Trades Insurance
  • Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service
  • Keith Borer 
  • Kent Police
  • Lancashire Police
  • Langley Vale Recovery
  • London Government Chemist
  • MAN TRUCK & BUS
  • Mclarens Toplis
  • Mercedes
  • Merseyside Fire & Rescue
  • NCEC
  • Norfolk Police (SOCO & Traffic)
  • Redhill Aerodrome Fire Service
  • Renault
  • Royal Ulster Constabulary (SOCO & Traffic Department)
  • Strathclyde University
  • South Wales Fire & Rescue Service
  • Surrey Fire % Rescue Service
  • Surrey Police (SOCO & CIU)
  • Sussex Police (SOCO, Gatwick Airport Division & CIU)
  • Suzuki
  • Thames Valley Police
  • The Forensic Science Service of Northern Ireland
  • Toyota Europe
  • Toyota GB
  • VOSA
  • West Midlands Travel
  • ZURICH Insurance

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Vehicle Fire Investigation Courses

 

The aim of these courses:

To develop the skills needed to investigate vehicles involved in fire incidents.  This course will be of particular interest to Police Officers of the Collision/Accident Investigation Department, Vehicle Examiners, Forensic Science Officers, Fire Officers, SOCO’s, Insurance Investigators and Assessors and Vehicle Inspectors

 Details and Booking Form

...what evidence can be obtained by witnesses?

Areas covered (S) Standard Course (A) Advanced Course:

Arson methods (S&A)

Causes of fires in road vehicles (S)

Low voltage electricity (S)

Flash points and auto ignition temperatures of various products used in motor vehicles (S)

Static electricity (S&A)

Impact (S&A)

Fire Development (A)

Setting a deliberate fire (A) inter group

Predicting fire development (A)

Investigations and group work (A)

Evidence available and preservation (A)

DNA opportunities (A)

Fire pattern analysis (A)

Post fire scene examination (A)

Vehicle Fire Investigation – A systematic approach (S&A)

Recording the fire scene (A)

 

The practical approach to investigation

Determining the fire temperature. (S&A)

What should be considered in ascertaining the cause of fire. (S&A)

The Role of the Fire Service.(S)

Risk Assessments for the Investigator (S)

Looking for evidence (A)

Recording the evidence (A)

Recording the fire scene (A)

 

The process:

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

 

followed by:

  • Practical fire scenarios on fire spread (S&A)

  • The chemistry of fire and flash points covering – petrol, diesel, brake fluid, liquefied petroleum gas, etc. (S)

  • Extinguishing methods. (S&A)

  • Group discussions on fire development, methods of deliberate fire setting (A)

  • Setting a deliberate fire for the other group to investigate (A)

  • Presentation including evidence gathered to course (A)

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

  • Reviews and presentations by groups. (S&A)

Methods of extinguishing, evidence protection and the difficulty of gaining information from witnesses.

Surrey Police and Toyota Europe in BA.

The methodical approach to investigation
Studying temperatures and fire behaviour
VFI - The review process
AVFI - Merseyside and Surrey Fire Services, Sussex Police, Langley Vale Recovery, ZURICH Insurance and independent investigators from Ireland undertaking the advanced course in February 2010.
AVFI - The advance course looks at forensic evidence retrieval and importance.
AVFI - Each syndicate is tasked to set a fire in a vehicle then the opposite group investigates.  Merseyside and Surrey Fire Services investigating the seat of the fire and excavating for evidence.
British Army - Serious Equipment Failure Investigation Team at work on the course in July 2010
LGV to Motor cycle fires

Costs:

 

Standard Course £375 per person (unchanged for 2010/11) – maximum of 12 delegates per course

(£75 discount for Forensic Science Society, IFE, IRTE/SOE and IAATI members)

CPD logo 7hrn web.jpg 7 hours CPD for IFE

Course Directors - Richard Baker and Chris Lowe

                          

Advanced course £800 per person - maximum 10 delegates per course

(£100 discount for IFE members)

Course Directors Chris Lowe and Richard Baker

13hours CPD for IFE

 

Next courses:

VFI 1st September

AVFI 2nd 3rd  September

VFI 19th October

AVFI 20th 21st October

Dates 2011:

VFI – 12th April

AVFI – 13th 14th April

VFI – 16th May

AVFI – 17th 18th May

VFI – 14th June

AVFI – 15th 16th June

VFI – 12th July

AVFI – 13th 14th July

VFI – 13th September

AVFI – 14th 15th September

VFI – 11th October

AVFI – 12th 13th October

 

Details and Booking Form

 

To include:

All instruction and handouts

Lunch

Venue

VAT at the standard rate is not included.

 

 

Chris Lowe

Chris retired from Northamptonshire Fire & Rescue Service in June 2009 where he served for nearly 31 years. He became a specialist Fire Investigation Officer for the service in 2002 and in 2004 became the Fire Investigation Manager.

While carrying out investigations himself he developed the team from two to ten investigators and established a high level of training for them all. Chris has attended Gardiner’s theory, practical and development courses and has achieved an Advanced Professional Certificate in Investigative Practice to support the Fire Investigation process.

As part of his role as FI Manager he has for many years been part of the East Midlands Regional Fire Investigation Liaison Group where he contributed to regional policies and procedures in relation to Fire Investigation.

In addition to FI, Chris was responsible for establishing an Arson Task Force in Northamptonshire which he did in 2004 and these two roles offered him the opportunity to ensure closer working with the Police and Forensic Investigation teams. This partnership has evolved into a multi agency team and the close liaison and joint training have developed the skills and effectiveness of all those involved. In the last two years he has worked closely with Northamptonshire Police to develop the identification and affective recovery of forensic evidence from post fire vehicles.

Chris is a Graduate of the Institution of Fire Engineers and has presented at National conferences on the management of fire investigations, attended the IAAI Training conference in Denver 2008 and is now the East Midlands regional representative for the UK Chapter of the IAAI (International Association of Arson Investigators). Following his retirement from the Fire Service Chris has moved into the private sector to continue and further develop in the field of Fire Investigation.

Richard Baker, is Chief Fire Officer for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania after setting up from scratch a fully functional fire, rescue and ambulance service 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 which has IFE CPD.  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.

 

 
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