Certified Senior Crime Scene Analyst by The International Association for Identification
After retiring, he moved to south Florida where he became a civilian crime scene investigator first for the City of Lake Worth and then for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. He is now the Chief Investigator for the Palm Beach County, Florida Medical Examiners Office.
Mr. Ruslanders’ accomplishments include being certified by the IAI as a Senior Crime Scene Analyst and by the ABMDI as a Registered Medico legal Death Investigator. In addition, he is Court recognized as a bloodstain pattern, latent fingerprint and crime scene reconstruction expert. Mr. Ruslander is a past president and chairman of the Board of Directors for the FDIAI, is the current vice president of the Gold Coast Forensic Association, a member of the IAI Crime Scene Committee and the FDIAI Crime Scene Certification Board and Editorial Review Board. Mr. Ruslander is a member of the IAI, the FDIAI, the SFFA, the IABPA, ABMDI and FOP 89 and the Florida Association of Medical Examiners.
Mr. Ruslander teaches forensics at the local community college as an adjunct instructor and has designed four forty-hour classes including Basic and Advanced Crime Scene Investigations, Basic and Advanced Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and Buried Bodies and Surface Skeletons. Additionally, Mr. Ruslander is an instructor for The Taylor Group and has taught classes in Property and Evidence Room Procedures, Crime Scene Investigations and Bloodstain Pattern Analysis for them throughout the United States. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement also certifies him as a law enforcement instructor.
Mr. Ruslander has written numerous forensic articles, which have been published in the IAI’s JFI, Evidence Technology Magazine, The FDIAI Newsletter, The SFFA Newsletter, and various sites on the worldwide web. Mr. Ruslander has also made presentations and taught courses for the FDIAI Annual Training Conference, The East Coast Armed Robbery Association, The Gold Coast Forensic Association, the Florida Chaplains Association and the Florida Fire Marshals Association, to name a few.