How would one go about getting a job cleaning up crime scenes? Do you have to take classes, or can any Joe pick up a sponge and go brain scraping?
A professional crime scene cleaner company. (With a phone number on the page if you want to find out how to join the company.)
Details of some of the hazards and requirements on the job here. (via Chicago Tribune.)
Interesting reading.
Oh and yes, I do think training would be mandatory.
It sounds to me as though they are just a cleaning agency who has no qualms about dealing with potentially “icky” stuff. Doesn’t say that they have any special equipment/training. They “are dedicated to assisting law enforcement, public service agencies, and property owners/managers in restoring property that has been contaminated as a result of crime, disaster or misuse.” But I think the emphasis is on the last, since in my (very limited) experience, the police didn’t particularly care about cleaning up the scene, they just took the body, closed the place up and left.
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Well check out the movie Curdled , one of Quentin Tarantino’s nutty films…
It’s all about the OP
=This American Life the National public radio show had a story on crime scene cleaners. It’s worth a listen (The whole archive is worth a listen, but this one is an especially interesting one. Requires Real player.
July 7, 2000
Episode 164
And yet another NPR recommendation, the Todd Mundt show will be broadcasting an interview with a crime scene cleaner on Monday the 17th.