Crime Scene Clean Up

Today while driving down the road I saw a window decal that stated, "Crime Scene Clean Up" and I thought- who does that? I always thought that the police cleaned it up- I don't know why, I guess I never really put too much thought into it, but since they cordone the area, then pick through the evidence, I always thought that when they were done they called a "Police Clean Up Crew" or the PCUC as they would be known. I didn't really think that they would call in a third party organization to do the dirty work. Which leads to my next question- How do you get started in Crime Scene Clean Up?

I wondered about this for some time- do you have to get certified? Do you have to get certified by the state? Apparently not.

When I ventured out to Google and did a search, I found www.crimeclean-up.com and under qualifications I found this:

"Crime Scene Clean-up has been featured in numerous publications, radio station & television shows worldwide. Louise Burkhardt was on the show Homicide the first and second season prior to starting this business. At that time, Homicide did some of their filming at the Medical Examiners Office in Baltimore."

I mean, what in the world? At least tell me that you have worked as a Janitor not on some Homicide show- I don't want you to analyze the stuff, just clean it up, sanitize it, remove the stains- the patina of blood, the horrific stench- that kind of stuff. At least there website is professional looking and they have lots of other interesting things to say.

After reading through some of it I thought that it might be an interesting job- It would definitely be a job that you would not want to sit around and eat while working- like you do when you answer phones all day for a living- I mean, who wants to go eat a burger after dealing with the family members and everything else that would be involved in CSCU. Ugh- not me- no way.