Every new Police Officer out of the academy has completed over forty hours of firearms training. Every year police officers spend hours re-certifying and showing proficiency with their firearms. Officers are trained in their less-lethal options, emergency vehicle operations, arrest control, de-escalation techniques, and evidence collection. Officers are trained and constantly re-certified and refreshed on these skills not only to help avoid liability, but to keep officers safe and to help secure criminal convictions.

Despite the best training provided to officers to help them do their job, most agencies give officers an extremely complex, technical, and critical evidence collection tool, a DSLR camera, with no training and expect officers to effectively use that tool to help collect evidence in critical felony cases, including homicides.

Officers and investigators are expected to take crime scene photos with little knowledge of how to unlock the potential of their camera. They must take evidence photos in some of the most challenging conditions available which would make experienced professional photographers think twice. In addition, officers are expected to use this powerful tool to record evidence which can help to identify suspects and prove their cases in court.