Moonshadow Investigations Induction Course - Intake 1 - July 2003

Location: Columtreal University Lecture Hall

Course Schedule:

4pm, 11th July - Investigation Techniques - Detective Angel Moonshadow P.I.
* Introduction to MI Ethics and Policy
* Victim, Witness & Suspect Interviews
* Physical & Electronic Evidence Collection
* Database Searches
* Search Warrants
* Informants and Human Intelligence Sources
* Surveillance, Profilers & Specialist support services
* Session will end with a field trip to the AS Forensic & Pathology Laboratory

4pm, 12th July - Basic Medical Forensics - Dr Takahiro Ugimachi M.E.
Introduction to Medical Forensics:
* What is a coroner?

* What is a medical examiner?

* What is an autopsy?

* Who gets autopsied?
Useful for Investigators:
* Trace Evidence on the Body

* Explain Locard’s Exchange Principle

* Hair, racial differences, structure of the hair

* Gun powder burns and distances

* Collection of Epithelials, where to find them

4pm, 13th July - The Body and Forensics - Dr Takahiro Ugimachi M.E.
The Bodily Fluids
:
* Blood types, Bloodstains, Clotting

* Toxicology, drugs and alcohols, heavy metals

* Poisons

* How Urine can help

* How Saliva can help, DNA

* Semen, DNA

4pm, 14th July - Report Writing & Final Exam - Detective Angel Moonshadow P.I.
* ((OOC section on Investigation RP))
* Report Writing
* Final Exam

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Upon successfully passing the final exam, trainees will be presented with a certificate of qualification necessary before conducting unsupervised investigations on behalf of the agency:

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Moonshadow Investigations provides confidential, professional investigative services to private citizens, corporations and organizations.

The agency operates under a strict ethical code. The agency will screen all potential work from clients and will refuse to take on work deemed to breech our code. We will NOT assist in criminal activity nor act as intelligence gatherers for any gang. Furthermore, the agency will NOT partake in investigations against serving police officers.

Investigations focus exclusively on the collection of evidence to produce a report for the client. Evidence gathering activities might include; Crime Scene Forensic analysis, Interviews, Surveillance, Criminal and public database searches and the collation of information from informants and contacts. Upon completion of an investigation, a report will be handed to the client. It will then normally be the client's responsibility to decide if they wish to pursue the matter further and take any evidence in the agency's report to the police or other law enforcement or legal organisation. Under certain circumstances, the agency may share information with police contacts or others if doing so is in the interests of the client or to protect the agency or its employees from exposure to criminal charges or attack.

All potential new clients will be required to be interviewed, will be given an initial estimated quotation (minus expenses), and, if the terms are accepted on both sides, will be required to sign a contract with the agency and provide a 30% fee payment up-front ((RP money not real Lindens, just like your pay!)). The remaining 70% of the fee (plus expenses) must be settled prior to receiving the final investigation report.

Moonshadow Investigations currently have vacancies for the following positions in either a full-time or part-time (freelance) capacity:

Field Investigators (Private Detectives)
Clerical Staff
Specialists & Consultants (eg. Forensic pathologists, criminal psychologists)
Close Protection Officers (Bodyguards)
Undercover Surveillance Operatives

ALL staff will be required to:

(1) Sign a binding contract agreeing to work strictly within our company ethical practices policy.
(2) Undergo a probationary period.
(3) Report to their line manager any criminal charges they receive or any breech of security of company property, files or data.
(4) Report to their line manager details of any possible risks or threats to their safety received during the course of their work.

In addition, ALL staff except specialists, Undercover Surveillance Operatives, consultants and sub-contractors will be required to:

(1) Be available to answer promptly any paging calls from potential clients from our office paging system ((when online)) with courtesy, take their details and arrange an initial client interview.

In addition, Field Investigators, Close Protection Officers, some specialists and Undercover Surveillance Operatives will be required to:

(1) Undergo a mandatory four-session induction training course at Columtreal University designed specifically for Moonshadow Investigations (covering Investigation techniques ((IC & OOC)) and an introduction to forensic science), for which they will receive a certificate upon successfully passing a final exam.

(2) Complete partial or final reports based on their assignment to a professional standard and according to the company template (guidance and training will be provided).

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To apply for a Job Interview with Moonshadow Investigations please click the 'Help Wanted' sign at the Moonshadow Investigations Office (Upstairs in the Civil Services building on Hathian Highway, Opposite the Gas Station).