The only program of its kind in Ontario, the Forensic Identification graduate certificate program provides you with leading-edge forensic knowledge and skills for public and private policing and laboratories. Designed for students who are interested in becoming frontline investigators, the program’s unique hands-on approach provides expert instruction utilizing the most modern criminal forensic technology within a specialized curriculum. You will study advanced fingerprint development and analysis, physical matching of footwear and tool marks, DNA and blood profiling, fraudulent document examination, death investigations, crime and disaster scene management, rules of evidence, and trial procedure.

Training takes place in our state-of-the-art crime scene studio and forensic lab located at the Humber Centre for Justice Leadership. This innovative facility features a simulation lab for processing forensic evidence from staged crime scenes including photography, fingerprint development, advanced evidence collection techniques and digital crime scene mapping. The Centre also features four interviewing labs for practising interviewing techniques. Finally, your forensic investigation skills and knowledge are put to the test in our mock courtroom.

Upon completion of the program, graduates may find employment in:

public law enforcement such as municipal, provincial or federal police and regulatory agencies in a civilian forensic role
provincial agencies such as the Ministry of the Attorney General, Office of Emergency Management and Ministry of the Solicitor General, Office of the Chief Coroner and Centre of Forensic Science
forensic and pathology agencies (public and private sector)
Graduates may wish to work as a civilian employee of a police service in forensic identification. They may also find employment in the public and private sectors in a forensic science capacity.