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Law Enforcement
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LEVA Conference heads to Canada
Aug 22, 2007
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by Alicia Zappier
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Celebrating its 18th year, the Law Enforcement & Emergency Services Video Association's annual conference is being held at the Westin Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Main conference sessions run Oct. 31-Nov. 2, with three days of pre-conference workshops beginning Oct. 28. You don't have to be a LEVA member to attend.
Many of the organization's more than 700 numbers reside in Canada, so Calgary was a natural choice for the conference. "Calgary was selected because of its extraordinary location and strong LEVA membership presence," Jan Garvin, LEVA vice president, forensic video training. "There are a great number of LEVA members and students throughout that country, and the board of directors voted in 2003 to return in 2007."
Garvin called this year's show a skill set smorgasbord. "LEVA keys in on specific topics that are not generally taught in the public safety community," he said. "The Calgary event will feature technical and task-oriented presentations to increase the value and credibility of the video producer and analyst."
This year's conference focuses on two main tracks, forensic video and video production. Attendees can attend sessions in both categories. At the end of each conference day starting Oct. 31, LEVA will close the program with one session developed to appeal to all attendees. Closing sessions will include "Multimedia Presentation Technology," "Color Correction," and "Shooting Back: In Combat Armed With a Camcorder."
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| This year's annual LEVA conference will offer sessions for video productions and forensic video professionals, as well as an exhibit hall. |
Some of this year's video production sessions will highlight popular ways of delivering video content, including podcasting and webinars. "For video production, new technology and tricks of the trade will be spotlighted, and the multimedia process will take front row," Garvin added. In the forensic video track, sessions will include "Cracking the Code on DVR Files," "Calibrating Equipment," and "Crime Scene Videography."
Sessions will be taught by experts in the field. Jason Latham is a certified forensic video analyst and a LEVA member who works at the Johnson County Sheriff's Office criminalistics lab in Mission, KS. He'll be on hand this year to teach a two-day seminar, "Develop SOPs: An Eye Toward Accreditation," which will focus on standard operating procedures for labs and police departments. His target audience is anyone doing forensic video.
"I'll get some administrative guys, along with lab manager and guys and gals in the trenches," Latham offered. "The seminar will offer hands-on training too -- we're going to write protocols as individuals and as a group."
What makes this course especially significant is the growing importance of forensic video in law enforcement. "You're on camera everywhere you go these days. Law enforcement is starting to see the power of what video analysis can do for investigation. It's a great collaborative tool that helps detectives, patrolmen and investigators. And it protects the innocent as well," Latham added.
Detective Jim Wood is an 18-year veteran of the Louisville Metro Police Department in Kentucky. He's also the manager of LEVA's multimedia lab at the University of Indianapolis. A LEVA member since 2000, Wood has a teaching certificate via the state of Kentucky that certifies him to teach law enforcement officials. To that end, he's is offering a 90-minute session this year, "Incident Reconstruction."
"This is for production people who want to get into criminal investigations. And it's also for the forensic video analyst who wants to offer more tools through his agency," Wood commented.
What sets LEVA apart from other law enforcement video organizations, Wood said, is its ability to grow. "LEVA really wants to step out and be a cheerleader for video analysis," he explained. "It wants to reach firefighters and fire departments and emergency medical people, and also branch into arson investigators who have video tools but want to learn more about how to use them."
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