2025 COURSE PRICES
Course prices can be found below. All courses are available on demand, with dates to suit you by agreement.
Helston Forensics Course Prices 2025 (262 KB)
COURSES
2024 COURSE DATES
Courses are available on demand, with dates to suit you by agreement.
2 DAY IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE AWARENESS
This course is designed to provide an awareness of the variety of IEDs, their construction and deployment.
By the end of this course, candidates should be better able to recognise potential threats with a higher degree of confidence, and have an improved understanding of how to identify vulnerabilities in potential targets with a view of how to mitigate risk while focussing resources.
2 DAY FILM-THEATRE ARMOURER
This course aims to give students the information and understanding required to operate firearms, in the entertainment industry environment, safely and within the law. To enable students to appreciate the judgements and decisions that need to be made, with regard to the following subjects (see ‘Scope’), and to be able to recognise their limitations and seek specialist advice as required.
Helston Forensics Film Armourer (PDF 163KB)
3 DAY FORENSIC AWARENESS
The course covers aspects of firearms and ammunition of interest to Forensic Scientists and Crime Scene Personnel. The course includes basic instructions on Health and Safety in the handling of firearms.
1 DAY REMINGTON MODEL 700 RIFLE
The 1 day course is designed to inform the armourer of the manufacturer’s standards of inspection, maintenance, servicing and repair of the Remington model 700 rifle, additional issues covered in the course are bore dimensions, barrel repairs, muzzle attachments, chokes, component wear, proof marks (UK and C.I.P) and modifications.
1 DAY BODY ARMOUR AWARENESS
This one-day course is designed to give the student an overview of manufacturing processes, design trends and the ability of new materials to withstand the latest threats. The covered topics will be of particular interest to tactical firearms officers, trainers, tactical advisors, procurement and all who are concerned with personnel safety.
Helston Forensics Body Armour Course (PDF 171KB)
5 DAY BASIC ARMOURERS COURSE
The course is designed to cover all aspects that are essential for armourers involved in weapons maintenance, to help them run an efficient armoury.
2 DAY TERRORIST WEAPONS
This 2 day course is designed to familiarise the student with the types of handgun, sub-machine gun and assault rifle typically seen as being of interest to terrorists, it covers all weapon and ammunition types that fall into this category, also an overview on the recent advances on protection materials designed and supplied by Associated Armour Limited.
1 DAY KALASHNIKOV ARMOURERS
This course is externally accredited by the Institute of Explosives Engineers.
Our intensive course provides generic information for armourer level work on the Kalashnikov weapon system. It is suitable for anyone who inspects, maintains or repairs Kalashnikovs as part of their employment.
3 DAY COMPARISON MICROSCOPY (BALLISTICS)
The Course is designed to deliver knowledge and understanding of comparison microscopy examination of tool marks in relation to firearms and ammunition.
Helston Forensics Comparison Microscopy Ballistics PDF 218KB)
1 DAY SERIAL NUMBER RECOVERY
This 1 day course is designed to demonstrate methods of serial number and mark recovery from a range of metals, of interest to forensic scientists who are required to undertake examinations where serial numbers or marks have been damaged or removed.
3 DAY ADVANCED AMMUNITION
This course is designed to cover a wide range of topics associated with ammunition for small arms.
It will be of particular interest to forensic science providers.
CASE REVIEW
Helston Forensics comprises a specialist forensic firearms training laboratory run by forensic experts to provide a unique firearms training and analytical forensic facility.
Our experts have decades of experience in the field of forensic ballistic incident reconstruction both throughout the UK and Internationally.
1 DAY REMINGTON 870 PUMP ACTION
This course is run by Helston trained and authorised armourer instructors at the Helston Forensics Ballistics Training Laboratory. The 1 day course is designed to inform the armourer of the manufacturers standards of inspection, maintenance, servicing and repair of the Remington 870 shot gun, additional issues covered in the course are bore dimensions, barrel repairs, muzzle attachments, chokes, component wear, proof marks, (UK and C.I.P) and modifications.
3 DAY ADVANCED AIRGUN
This course is designed to cover all aspects of airgun examination.
The course can be altered to meet specific needs and form part of a forensic strategy for the most serious of cases.
1 DAY AIRGUN CHRONOGRAPH
This course is designed to familiarise the student with the Skan chronograph system and ensure they can confidently perform a standard airgun test.
3 DAY ADVANCED SHOTGUN
This course is designed for the Forensic Scientist and student who needs a better understanding of complex mechanisms and what they can tell you, how shotguns are manufactured, repaired, serviced and maintained.
1 DAY FORENSIC RADIOGRAPHY
This course is designed for practising and student forensic investigators from all disciplines. It will provide a basic overview of the techniques involved and the resultant information that can be gained through employing radiographic techniques.
5 DAY INCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION & ANALYSIS
This course is designed to assist the student in their approach to incident reconstruction and analysis. After successful completion of the course the scientist will be able to attend a scene with confidence. They will learn the skills needed to be able to record and retrieve evidence that is crucial to enable an accurate analysis of the incident.
4 DAY EXPERT WITNESS
Helston Forensics in conjunction with Bond Solon have been running the Firearms Expert Witness course since 1999. Firearms licencing managers, firearms practitioners and examiners from the majority of police forces country wide have attended this joint training program.
2 DAY BROWNING HMG ARMOURERS (BASIC)
This 2 day course is designed to familiarise the student with the .50 Browning machine gun variants, there are many thousands of M2 and M3 machine guns in use worldwide. It is important for armourers/ personnel who might come into contact with these equipments to be competent in their use.