The Steward's training program
FusionTrace Academy
Where law enforcement agencies, their investigators and the organizations that train them learn the FusionTrace Evidence Standard, sit its exam, and earn the credential the Standard defines.
Certification is by invitation. The Steward scores every exam and issues every certificate.
FusionTrace Certified
For law enforcement agencies and their investigators. Thirteen short modules, about three and a half hours, two hands-on labs, then an exam on the Steward's engine and a signed acknowledgment. An agency adds an administrator, who takes four more modules (Standard D4.1, D4.2).
FusionTrace Master Certified
For organizations that work alongside law enforcement and train agencies, and for their trainers: the administrator pathway, the exam, the trainer module, a co-taught first course and the trainer acknowledgment (Standard D10.2, D10.3). A designation in words, with no mark.
How it stays fair
Trainers teach. The Steward scores every exam and issues every certificate, the same way for every agency and person (D10.4(d)). Every exam is supervised live by a person. Nothing about you is watched by software.
Enrolment is by invitation
The Steward or a Master Certified organization invites an agency's administrator, and the administrator invites the agency's people. There is no open sign-up and no fee for an exam or a certificate.