Occurs when an officer makes detailed and systematic inquiries or observations
What is Investigation
100
Anything that tends to prove or disprove an alleged fact.
What is Evidence
100
Pioneer in forensic science said "Every contact leaves a trace"
What is Dr. Edmond Locard
100
This is the process of microscopically analyzing trace evidence, such as paint, glass, and cloth fibers, to determine a possible source or origin
What is Microanalysis
100
Anything containing a mark to convey a message
What is Document
200
The person who alleges that a crime has been committed
What is Complainant
200
Type of evidence that when correctly handled, preserved, maintained, and scientifically analyzed, it cannot give false results.
What is Physical Evidence
200
Search pattern used indoors; it overlaps a series of lanes in a cross pattern, making the search more methodical and thorough. Variation of the strip/line search.
What is Grid
200
Evidence left at crime scenes that may contain DNA
What is Biological
200
Documentation of everyone who handled the evidence as well as when, why, and what changes, if any, were made to it.
What is Chain of Custody
300
Person who sees, knows, or vouches for something and makes a sworn statement about that information
What is Witness
300
Belongs to an individual and is not open to the public.
What is Private Property
300
Search pattern used outdoors or for an area that is large. The area should be divided into 4 different sections and searched using one of the patterns above.
What is Zone/Quadrant
300
Among the most valuable types of physical evidence and one of the most common types of evidence an officer will recover at crime scenes
What is Latent Prints
300
The downward observation perspective method of sketching that is most common
What is Bird's-Eye-View
400
What is the first and most important thing to do when dealing with multiple witnesses
What is Separate them
400
Should you make the crime scene larger or smaller? 2 reasons why?
What is Larger - It is easier to go from larger to smaller (Don't want the integrity of the evidence jeopardized/contaminated) and helps keep the crowd back.
400
Search pattern usually used outside by one person. The searcher begins at a certain point and walks in increasingly larger circles to the outermost boundary of the search area
What is Spiral
400
Molded or imbedded fingerprints created by touching an impressionable surface such as wet paint or mud and are easily seen
What is Plastic Prints
400
Most common method of surveying (measuring and documenting) objects within the crime scene
What is Triangulation
500
Name two of three things that should be asked to any person immediately when getting to the scene?
What is Suspect still around? Anyone armed? Anyone need 1st Aid?
500
Document that must be maintained at the entrance and exit to every crime scene
What is Crime Scene Log
500
Their job is to determine what evidence at the scene belongs to the criminal and not to the victims or witnesses
What is Crime Scene Analyst
500
Evience such as computers, media, PDAs, tapes, and cameras that officers must not touch any part of so they won't damage it.
What is Electronic Evidence
500
A means of documentation that aid in the reconstuction, explanation, and permanent recording of an incident. Can show relative positions of objects within the crime scene that are not readily seen in photographs