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Crash Reconstruction Unit

The Bellevue Police Department's Crash Reconstruction Unit began in 2002 with a grant from the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety to host a forensic diagramming class that included equipment and a computer aided diagramming program. The equipment used at that time was a Sokkia Total Station SDr-33 Data collector to download to the drawing program.

Prior to this training, BPD had individual officers with advanced training in crash investigation and reconstruction. With the training and certification, the officers came together to form the Crash Reconstruction Unit.

All officers on the team are required to be at an advanced level of accident certification through the State of Nebraska or to have completed equivalent training. Our current team has four members that are Certified Accident Reconstructionists. Other members have accident investigation training that is specialized to certain areas i.e. Crash Data Retrieval, Motorcycle Crash Investigation, Grade Crossing Accident Investigation, and Accident Diagramming Software.

All of the equipment that is used by our Crash Investigation Team has been acquired by grants from the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety and the Nebraska Department of Roads.

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