POLICE EMPLOYEES ONLY : Firearms Examiner

About the Job :

As a Firearms Examiner for CSPD's (Colorado Springs Police Department) Metro Crime Lab, you will perform firearm and tool mark examinations, prepare technical reports that support analytical findings, and present them in a court of law through expert witness testimony.

This position is subject to budget required furloughs to be implemented in the 2026 calendar year, and any furloughs subsequently approved.

Responsibilities :

• Performs mechanically functioning examinations and test firing of wide variety of handguns, rifles, and shot guns.
• Identifies and analyzes firearms and related physical evidence to include bullets, cartridge cases, shot shells, wadding and live ammunition.
• BrassTrax Acquisitions for National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) entry
• Performs tool mark comparisons as they relate to firearms
• Performs muzzle to target distance determinations.
• Identification of firearm make, model, caliber, and type.
• Performs serial number restoration
• Complete data entry in LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System).
• Complete work under the appropriate standard operating procedures in accordance with the quality assurance system set forth by the Metro Crime Laboratory.
• Prepares technical reports that support analytical findings.
• Provides courtroom testimony as an expert witness
• Review forensic technical journals and attend available training to stay abreast of developments in the field of firearms and toolmark examination and other related forensic disciplines.
• Assist with any technical functions or processes within the laboratory as they related to firearms and toolmarks.
• Provides training for law enforcement academies, officers and attorneys in the firearms discipline.

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The City of Colorado Springs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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