SPOTLIGHT INVESTIGATIVE Start Your Forensic Education at ALOA 2018 Forensic education opportunities abound at the ALOA Convention and the IAIL Forensic Conference. discipline and turned it into a certified forensic locksmith credential that zeros in on one of our most basic knowledge bases. Start on the path of turning your existing knowledge into a finely tuned profit center. One of the hottest areas in case litigation right now is amputation of fingers with W 8 doors, frames and hardware. You may be asking yourself how this is possible. Easy: Think about doors and frames out of alignment, door closers not adjusted properly or wrong hardware installed on the door, for starters. All of this combined with un- supervised children equals a disaster waiting to happen. As locksmiths, we are taught the correct installation procedures for all hardware, or at the very least we read the installation instructions packaged with the product. If you’ve taken my life safety code class in the past 20 years, do you remember the cover on my manual of the two levers installed improperly? These were installed by installers who couldn’t read English and couldn’t figure out how to reverse the lever. These were not locksmiths! Now, think about what I just wrote, and that is why we have so many cases involving improperly installed doors, frames and hardware. Start your forensic education at ALOA this month and complete the required courses October 19-20 at the IAIL Forensic Conference at our training center in Dallas, TX, for classes and then test the morning of the 21st. We are expecting more than 100 forensic locksmiths to be in attendance for this event, so sign up early to KEYNOTES JULY/AUGUST 2018 e will soon be welcoming you to the ALOA Convention in National Harbor, MD, where education is the number-one priority for all locksmiths. If you are thinking about obtaining your CFL credential in Architectural Hardware, Building and Fire Codes, this is the place to achieve this knowledge. IAIL has taken this one “One of the hottest areas in case litigation right now is amputation of fingers with doors, frames and hardware.” lock in your seat! Go to ALOA.org and download your IAIL Forensic Confer- ence brochure now. We will be publishing the requirements to test for your CFL later this summer so you can prepare to take your exam in October at the conference. If you would like these requirements early, send me an email and I’ll reply back with everything you need. If you have any comments, sug- gestions or questions, please contact me at [email protected]. Tom Resciniti Demont, AHC, CAI, CFDI, CFL, CMIL, CML, CMST, ICML, IFDI, LSFDI, ARL, President, In- ternational Association of Investigative Locksmiths, aloa.org. Get Published! IAIL members: Submi t your ar t icles for the Invest igat ive Spotlight department. Send your informat ion to Ross Squire at [email protected]. WWW.ALOA.ORG
