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Graduate Certificate in Forensic Firearm Examination

The Graduate Certificate in Forensic Firearm Examination provides students with the discipline expertise and ability to examine firearms and ammunition in forensic crime scene investigations. It covers the skills and knowledge to undertake firearms and ammunition analysis, microscope examination of ammunition components, assembly and disassembly of ammunition, conducting firearm related testing and interpreting gunshot wounds. Students will develop expert skills and techniques to conduct, examine and analyse forensic firearms and ammunition.

This is a restricted Police qualification; students must be employed by an Australian Police Service to enrol.

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