Crime scene cleaner Marcell Engel offers a professional online course

Frankfurt/Bad Soden, July 13, 2021. “It’s much more than just arriving, going in and cleaning,” says Marcell Engel. He has been a crime scene cleaner for over 27 years, has completed more than 15,000 missions worldwide and is well known in the press, radio and television. His professional field is constantly attracting increasing interest. The demand for training opportunities is so great for Marcell Engel, founder and managing director of the Frankfurt company Akut SOS Clean GmbH, that he has developed professional online training. From now on he will share his extensive knowledge in online courses.

The online course provides the theoretical basics that can be applied in practice immediately afterwards. The main content of the course is: analysis of the measures to be used, carrying out cleaning and disinfection, professional pest control and odor elimination. “But important knowledge about legal bases, regulations, occupational safety as well as offering and invoicing, including order processing with customers, is also imparted,” explains Marcell Engel.

He also offers a master's course that supplements the online course with a face-to-face day. Here, the aspiring crime scene cleaners have the opportunity to apply the theoretical knowledge they have gained in practice with an instructor from Akut SOS Clean GmbH directly at a real crime scene and thus gain their first experience at the scene of the crime. Sascha Thomaschewski has been a crime scene cleaner at Marcell Engel for over 20 years and does his job with heart and soul. He says: "It's an extremely varied job and every day is a new challenge. And that's exactly what makes it so exciting for me."

Of course, there are also requirements for this professional field that are essential. These include, for example, physical health, fitness and condition. The psychological resilience of the applicants is also important. In addition to strong smells, the crime scene cleaners also find contamination from various body fluids, hoarders' apartments and much more. “It’s intense at times,” says Marcell Engel. “But it is meaningful work and we are also rewarded by the gratitude of the relatives,” he adds. Because he knows from over 27 years of professional experience: Every crime scene tells its own story. And so using the crime scene cleaner every time is much more than clearing, cleaning and disinfecting. “That's precisely why we would choose this profession again and again,” agree the professionals Marcell Engel and Sascha Thomaschewski.