Training Courses

Breaking and Entering Evidence and Recovery (BEER) – Andover PD

Date & Time:
  • October 27, 2026 – October 28, 2026 - 8:30 AM–4:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Location:
32 N Main Street, Andover, MA
Agency:
Municipal Police Institute

Facts

  • Instructor: Shawn Dolan
  • Date: October 27-28, 2026
  • Location: Andover Police Department
  • Time: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
  • Price: $459.00 USD

This intensive 16-hour hands-on program equips newly assigned investigators and first responders with practical skills for processing evidence at common crime scenes, including residential and commercial break-ins, stolen or recovered vehicles, drug-related incidents, and assault cases. Participants learn foundational techniques for developing latent prints and systematically documenting, preserving, and collecting evidence. The course emphasizes basic processing methods that serve as stepping stones toward more advanced forensic recovery techniques.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This 2 day (16 hour) HANDS ON course will enable the newly assigned investigator or 1st responding officer assigned to handle evidence at the most common crime scenes: housebreaks and commercial breaks. The officer will also gain the fundamental skills necessary to respond to stolen/recovered motor vehicles, drug crimes and assaults. The methods for developing latent prints on evidence are vast and plenty. But the concepts addressed in this course will help the investigator with the first steps and basic techniques in processing evidence from these types of scenes utilizing a systematic approach to document, preserve, process and collect items at the crime scene. Participants will be instructed in the use of the first and basic set of processes and will demonstrate their proficiency in the use of these materials to the satisfaction of the course instructor.

PREREQUISITE

This is the pre-requisite course to the secondary, Dust 'n Bust (which will cover the "vast and plenty" of latent print/DNA recovery that follows basic methods.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Each participant attending the course will receive a BEER kit. The cost of the training (including the entire "BEER" kit is $429.00), which for fiscal purposes can be allotted from either an agency training budget or equipment budget.