"RALEIGH The state's top child advocacy task force will urge legislators to require all new police and deputies to take a course in child death investigation as part of their basic training, the group voted Monday.
The task force also decided to support regionalizing the state's medical examiner system, which would place trained investigators across the state to respond to deaths. Because the effort could carry a hefty price tag, the group doesn't expect it to happen this year.
The proposals were spurred by an Observer series this year, 'Cradle of Secrets,' that looked at five years of sudden infant death syndrome cases in North Carolina. The series detailed that police frequently fail to investigate the deaths thoroughly, if at all."
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