SketchCop®

Digital Solutions for Facial Imaging & Identification

Mike Streed

SketchCop FACETTE Training Course – REGISTER NOW!

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baltimore-training-ctrSketchCop Solutions is pleased to announce our upcoming, 2-day, hands-on training course – Creating Digital Composite Images for Law Enforcement, scheduled for October 23 & 24, 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Attendees will learn how to develop interview strategies, testify in court as an expert witness, create high-quality facial composites using SketchCop FACETTE software and much, much more.

The course will be taught by Michael W. Streed, owner of SketchCop Solutions and Baltimore City Police Department’s full-time Forensic Artist.  Mr. Streed is one of the country’s most experienced Forensic Artists and is known for his highly-skilled communication style.  He has documented success teaching law enforcement officers from throughout the country on the subject of creating effective facial composites using commercially available software.

New and existing SketchCop FACETTE users will greatly benefit from attending the course.  Even those using competing software products are welcomed to attend.

For more information, visit: http://c17736.sgvps.net/~sketchsf/training/ and scroll to the bottom of the page.

‘Dying Art?’

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Erik Ortiz, NBC News, examines the state of forensic art versus technology in his article titled, ‘Dying Art?’: Forensic Artists Face a Digital Future.  In his article, Ortiz interviews Michael W. Streed, owner of SketchCop Solutions, about his views on the ‘state of the art’. 

To learn more about how SketchCop Solutions is leading the evolution from pencil to pixel, read the article by clicking the link.  http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/dying-art-forensic-sketch-artists-face-digital-future-n41421

 

 

‘Dying Art?’: Forensic Artists Face a Digital Future.

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On March 3, 2014, NBC news reporter Erik Ortiz published an online news article titled: ‘Dying Art?’:  Forensic Artists Face a Digital Future.  The article highlights the struggle between traditional forensic artists and software programs that create composite images.  This subject is one that law enforcement has long struggled with.  That’s because for years, a shortage of trained forensic artists forced them to use software programs that left them unsatisfied.  But, in the absence of a well-trained forensic artist, it was all they had.

 Today that’s changed.  [Read more…] about ‘Dying Art?’: Forensic Artists Face a Digital Future.