Students live the CSI life

Students will become real life CSI agents when they take part in a forensic  search of a Leicester house during a course run by crime experts at De Montfort University (DMU).

Year  10 and Year 12 pupils from Countesthorpe Community College and Longslade Community College, Birstall, will don white suits to visit the house  then comb the place for samples and fingerprints to help solve a murder mystery.

They will then take their samples to the chemistry labs on the DMU campus to use electron microscopes and other specialist equipment to put all the clues together before naming their suspect.

The Crime Scene House sits in the middle of a terraced street in Leicester City Centre and has been bought by De Montfort University to help with its training of police officers from the Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire forces.

De Montfort University is responsible for training the two forces in a foundation degree in policing and also trains Leicestershire’s Police Community Support Officers.

The house is used during each course to set up lots of different scenarios police may come across in their day-to-day job.

De Montfort University also uses the house for the training of its forensic science students.

The day-long student event at the university, which takes place on Monday 6 July and Thursday 9 July , has been sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry to encourage more people to study the subject under the scheme Chemistry: The Next Generation. Members of Leicestershire police will also be on hand to offer recruitment advice to potential scenes of crime officers.

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