About the California Criminalistics Institute
The California Criminalistics Institute (CCI), a unit of the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Forensic Services, provides specialized forensic science training to personnel who are practitioners in the field of forensic science.
Established in 1986, one of the primary missions of CCI is to provide state and local forensic scientists with a vehicle for keeping abreast of the ever-changing trends and discoveries in the field of forensic science. The program was designed to incorporate new and developing forensic technologies into California's criminalistics laboratories.
As part of its mission, CCI:
- Conducts forensic training for state and local law enforcement
- Provides literature and analytical reference information to California's criminalistics laboratories
- Develops and delivers quality assurance support to Bureau of Forensic Science criminalistics laboratories
- Provides casework consultation on a referral basis in those instances in which sophisticated instrumentation and special knowledge is not available at a given site
- Develops and evaluates new methodologies and equipment that will be used to provide more definitive answers to forensic evaluations
The students taking CCI courses include criminalists, evidence technicians, detectives and crime scene investigators from city, county, state and federal organizations.
For further information about CCI, see www.cci.ca.gov.
