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Hiring Agency:
State Patrol - Agency 64
Location:
Lincoln Job Posting
Hiring Rate:
$19.258
Classification Salary Range:
$19.26 - $28.39
Job Posting:
JR2024-00004665 State Patrol Forensic Technician (Open)
Applications No Longer Accepted On (If no date is displayed, job is posted as open until closed):
04-05-2024
Job Description:
This position is assigned responsibilities for the tasks related to the management of the tenprint and palm print repository of the Nebraska Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). These responsibilities involve various complex technical functions related to the forensic analysis of fingerprint and palm print impressions through the electronic and manual processing of submissions to maintain the integrity and accuracy of the database for the State of Nebraska, and indirectly, the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This position performs difficult, non-routine fingerprint and palm print image examination, interpretation, classification, analysis and identification and applies the laws, rules, and standards governing this process. This position also captures fingerprints and palm prints for the public, performs comparisons, and analyzes and verifies fingerprint and palm print images submitted for background checks and questioned identities, and provides instruction to the public and partnering agencies on the proper method of taking legible tenprint and palmprint impressions and completion of various fingerprint cards.
Requirements / Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications: Post high school coursework, training, or experience in evidence preservation/collection/processing procedures and in basic automated database/spreadsheet software applications.
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Two years’ experience in maintaining records related to stores keeping, materials handling, supplies delivery/inventory including experience in basic database/spreadsheet software applications.
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Associate’s degree in criminal justice, natural/health/laboratory applied sciences, paralegal studies, or related disciplines.
Other: Regular and reliable attendance is expected. If selected for this position, you must meet the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services employment eligibility requirements by completing an EEV (I-9) Form. The agency does not sponsor H1-B Visa's. Must successfully complete an extensive background screening prior to being employed which includes completion of a Personal History Questionnaire. Applicants will be screened for a record of criminal activity and criminal history using a fingerprint-based check, and before unconditional employment is offered. Applicants must be free of felony convictions, and cannot maintain continuous association or dealings with persons, groups, or organizations that they know, or should know, are persons or groups or organizations under criminal investigation or indictment or who have a reputation for present, ongoing involvement in felonious or criminal behavior. Selection process will include an interview followed by a short written exam. Upon selection for this position, applicants are required to attend hands-on training provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Criminal Justice Information Services Division as soon as training accommodations can be made with the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Criminal Justice Information Services Division. The hands-on training provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Criminal Justice Information Services Division includes proper techniques on taking legible tenprint fingerprints, palm prints, and full exemplars. This training also includes proper techniques on how to complete various fingerprint cards and hands-on fingerprint impression comparison training. This training is typically five days in length (40 hours), requires overnight travel, and may require flying as a mode of transportation. Upon selection for this position, applicants are required to attend an instructor development training. This training is typically five days in length (40 hours), requires overnight travel, and driving an agency issued vehicle (within the state and/or out of state). Vision correctable to a range to allow the identification of greyscale and differing fingerprint patterns, core and delta regions of each finger, make correct ridge counts for each individual finger, and viewing of data displayed on a computer terminal or on printed material.
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