International Association for Identification
Dakotas Division – North and South Dakota

Dakotas Division IAI Membership and Annual Educational Conference Information

The Dakota’s Division of the IAI (DD-IAI) was founded to associate persons in the law enforcement communities who are actively engaged in the profession of identification methods, investigations and scientific examination of physical evidence. This Division’s parent body is the International Association for Identification or IAI for short. Information on the international organization may be seen at their website www.theiai.org.

The Dakotas Division, which includes the states of North and South Dakota was formed in 1994 and incorporated in the State of South Dakota in May 2002. Its first annual educational conference was held in Pierre on October 6, 2003 and it now has 104 active and associate members. Officers of the Division for 2006 include:

• President: David Schrank, Colorado Technical University/Canton, SD Police Dept.
• Vice President: Sgt. Mike Jordahl, Rapid City, SD Police Dept.
• Secretary-Treasurer: Kristin Walti, South Dakota DCI Forensic Lab
• IAI Regional Representative: Christine Reitsma, South Dakota DCI Forensic Lab
• Editor: Eddie Aamold, South Dakota DCI Forensic Lab
• Sergeant-at-Arms: Jason Hicks, West Fargo, ND Police Dept.
• Past President/Chair of the Board: Chief Deputy Richard Ohm, Hand Co, SD Sheriff's Office

The goals of the Division as outlined in the constitution include:

• Encouraging the improvement in the science of identification and crime detection
• Keeping members appraised of the latest techniques and discoveries in scientific crime detection
• Encouraging research in scientific crime detection
• Employing the collective wisdom of the profession and to advance the science and scientific techniques of identification methods
• Providing training, education, and the publication of information in all forensic disciplines represented by this Division

The Division intends to provide training and education at a very minimal cost in the areas of crime scene investigation, forensic evidence collection and to establish interagency contacts between police departments, sheriff’s offices, state investigators, private forensic examiners and lab examiners, as well as interstate contacts between agencies in North and South Dakota.

The 5th Annual Educational Conference will be held June 11th and 12th in Sioux Falls, SD at the Holiday Inn City Centre. This years Conference will focus on digital imaging with a two day lecture by the internationally recognized speaker David "Ski" Witzke, Vice President, Program Development, with Foray Technologies in a course entitled "Digital Imaging for Dummies". For more information on the Conference including a course outline, hotel, and registration information and/or to register, please click on the "Conference Outline" and "Registration Form" links below.

The following documents and forms are in PDF format. For the membership form, you can either print and fill it out, or you can fill it out online, print when completed and then mail to the address indicated on the form:

• Conference Outline
• Registration Form
• Membership Form

For further information, please contact:

Kristin Walti
Secretary-Treasurer
Dakotas Division IAI
(605) 773-7835
kristin.walti@state.sd.us