The Corpus Christi Police Department no longer has any firearms examiners after two separate internal affairs investigations led to the departure of both employees. More than 200 cases from the past five years are now being reviewed, and future cases may face delays.
A firearms examiner analyzes guns, bullets, and other firearms evidence to help solve crimes and testify in court.
CCPD’s only firearms examiners are gone after internal affairs probes, over 200 cases under review
Todd Green, assistant chief of the Investigations Bureau at CCPD, described the role.
“Their job is to look at projectiles, casings, and firearms and try to see whether the casings from a crime scene match to a particular weapon or a bullet fragment,” Todd Green, assistant chief of the Investigations Bureau at CCPD, said…