subject: Detective and Crime Scene Investigator Career [print this page] Detectives are working in the police force as Law Enforcement Careers that will gather evidence for the criminal cases. Typically, they will determine who is accountable to the crimes that have been committed. Their scope of work is to visit the crime scenes and interview the witnesses and suspects, gathers complete information, documents the evidences, put the suspect under surveillance and participates in arresting.
Detectives usually are specialized in the particular fields of the crime like homicide, juvenile crime, fraud, drug trafficking, human trafficking and a lot more. Their cases are usually assigned by the supervisor, and they work with their cases until the arrest as well as the conviction is being made or after the case id being closed or dropped.
The duties of detectives are dangerous and stressful because they usually deal with the potential criminals. They are working long hours as they are on case investigation and they even work on holidays depending with the stressful demands of the job.
While the crime scene investigator are examining the crime location as well as collect and then analyze the necessary evidences that may point to the one who commits the crime. The investigator can work in the fields of gathering evidences in the crime scene, laboratory or field of analyzing evidence which are collected.
In this field of work, the crime scene Investigator can pursue a specialization in one, two or more of the variety investigations like, forensic photography, latent examination of fingerprint and document and Handwriting analysis and a lot more. More often, the investigator will start their career only as a general technician prior to specialization.
They should work well to the team of persons, and must have an excellent verbal communication and writing skills. Law Enforcement Careers must contain a better organizational skills, with excellent eye with every detail, can prioritize their job and can possess a good analytical solving skills.
