Crime Scene House

About the Crime Scene House

Located at our Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, the Crime Scene House is a training space developed to mimic a normal house environment that can be incorporated into a simulated crime scene. It comprises a lounge area, bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom and extends to an outdoor area with a car and garden.

The house can be staged with different types of simulations that are typical of real-world crime scenes such as murders and drug laboratories. Students are able to search the house to document the crime and collect related evidence – just as they would working in the real world. Students also interact with simulated elements forensic investigators are often confronted with, including bodily fluids, blood, fingerprints, fibres and weapons that replicate real-life scenarios as closely as possible.

The space is also used for our outreach programs, research purposes and is available to our industry partners for training and development.

Equipment and technology

The Crime Scene House includes:

• simulated rooms and zones
• furniture and other incidental objects such as cutlery and crockery
• typical household items, including food products and containers, magazines, towels
• crime objects such as bullet casings and weapons
• post-crime aspects such as simulated blood, other fluids or live maggots
• cameras set up in every room so students can be viewed remotely
• virtual 360° imaging of crime scenes for first-year students to search the house online.