Forensics Unit

The Forensic Unit is staffed by sworn and non-sworn police personnel, most of whom are graduates of the University of Tennessee National Forensic Academy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Unit is comprised of four special details: Crime Scene Processing, Fingerprint Identification, Firearms Examination/NIBIN, and Photography. Through these specialties, the Unit provides services from bullet comparisons to crime scene reconstruction. The Unit also provides presentations to area citizen groups, scouts, and school groups. Training collaboration is also shared between local, state, and federal agencies aimed at perfecting forensic crime scene techniques.

The Forensic Unit is responsible for gathering evidence from crime scenes such as blood spatter pattern documentation, latent fingerprints, DNA trace evidence, bullets, shell casings, shoe impressions, chemically developed bloody handprints, impression casting of footprints, and tool marks and fingerprints from weapons used in crimes to aid in solving violent and other crimes in the City of Knoxville.