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(@Anonymous)
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I live in a 'small' town mentality area.

I want to offer my services to the local PD in digital investigation and forensics.

How would you approach the local PD to offer such pro bono service? No strings attached.

 
Posted : 25/01/2007 12:49 am
(@chrisprickaerts)
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Hi Libertate,

If you do not know anyone at the local PD I would just go in an make an appointment with the police chief.

My guess however is that it they will be hesitant to accept your offer, unless you have the required certifications and background. What I mean by that is that any forensic work done not by them but by using your services could be challenged in court. Can you demonstrate your expert status on the field of forensics?

This is what the police chief will be thinking about I can imagine (if not other issues as well).

The fact that it would be free of charge does not make a lot of difference.

My 2 cents

Good luck 😉

Chris

 
Posted : 25/01/2007 12:06 pm
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I have both the academic proof (certifications and degrees), and courtroom experience as a technical witness (not an expert witness).

Thanks for your thought.

 
Posted : 25/01/2007 7:53 pm
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If you have the academic proofs and courtroom experience, then what is your goal? Are you just wanting to do your civic duty or ? Look at it from their perspective! Be completely upfront and totally above board!

Contact city/county DA offering your services, also.

Offer free seminar(s) on CF to PD or individual officers, this way they get a chance to evaluate your skills, demeanor and public presence with no risk to the PD.

Do not get overly disappointed if they refuse! Some states provide CF services to local departments or have intra-inter-agency service agreements in place with various support organizations.

 
Posted : 01/02/2007 12:06 am
(@olddawg)
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Check in to becoming a part-time "special officer" at your local PD. Depending on where you're from, the requirements can vary dramatically from quite rigorous to almost nothing. Once you're sworn in, presto, you're now a LEO forensic dude.

 
Posted : 20/02/2007 7:23 am
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I have been going through this for a few months now and in our area they don't work with outside consultants for examinations due to budget restraints and the nature of the work. A large portion of their cases involve child pornography and they are very careful about who is allowed to work on cases (understandable).

I was told that there may be opportunities to sell training/software to the PD but handling overflow work wasn't an option. I was a bit discouraged to find out they weren't open to the help but I can also understand why.

Jon

 
Posted : 21/02/2007 7:17 pm
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Offer free seminar(s) on CF to PD or individual officers, this way they get a chance to evaluate your skills, demeanor and public presence with no risk to the PD.

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X2

Take a look at national or state organizations that the police may belong to…such ast INFRA Gard or ASIS ISACA.

Take a look and see if there is an IT specific Police Group/Unit CyberSomethingOrOther Task Force Thingy….

Then offer to give training/speak at one of their regulary scheduled meetings.
Hand out your card.

As far as courtroom experience…shrug, my guess is that in situations where teams of people investigate crimes not each and every one of them needs that experience….just a highly trained highly experienced person to vouch for everything that was done under their command….

Then that person goes under oath.
…but that is just my opinion.

Skip

———–Edit I did some googleing
The FBI and the NIPC are located in Omaha NB (a la your signature/avitar)
And it looks like InfraGard meets there….go to a meeting as a guest (most meetings are open to all members of the community…after registering).

http//www.infragard.net/chapters/omaha/about.htm

go there, call this guy…402-492-3772

and see if they would like to see your presentation/talk/training at their next meeting.

 
Posted : 22/02/2007 12:25 am
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skip, thanks. As I belong to Infragard, I did think of presentations.

I will start there. I have also discussed some hash set distributions for LEOs working on various digital crime stuff.

 
Posted : 24/02/2007 1:22 am
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