Crime Scene Basics
Any physical location in which a crime has occurred or suspected of having occurred.
What is a crime scene?
Location of crime scene area, Size of crime scene area, Actions of suspects and victims.
What is the criteria used to determine the best search pattern?
Includes a short paragraph summarizing the findings of the first person to arrive on the crime scene.
What is the brief from the officer?
Accurate depiction of the dimensions of the scene, Shows all objects having a bearing on the case, and includes all physical evidence.
What must be included in a rough sketch?
Produce examination-quality photographs.
What is the goal of crime scene photography?
A claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, typically a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place
What is an alibi?
Used in large areas.
What is the quadrant search pattern?
Weather, condition of crime scene, address, etc.
What is the crime scene description?
Define the boundaries.
What is the first step to making a rough sketch?
Immediate viewing and higher resolution
What is digital photography?
The first to arrive to a crime scene.
Who is the first officer?
This type of search involves individuals completing the search either start from the boundary line or from the center and work their way out.
What is the ray search pattern?
Type of evidence collected in the lead investigator report.
What is physical evidence?
Measures two distances to an object that make a right angle with each other and to two fixed surfaces.
What is the rectangular method?
The first pictures the photographer takes, the entire scene and surrounding area, includes points of exit and entry, taken from multiple angles, includes walls.
What is an overview photograph?
Any material object that plays some role.
What is physical evidence?
Facilitates the location of footprints leading away from the scene in any direction.
What is the spiral search pattern?
Lead Investigator(s), Final Sketch Artist(s), Photographer(s), and Evidence Analyst(s).
Who are crime scene personnel?
Title Block, Legend, Compass, Walls/boundaries must be measured, and Distance to all evidence.
What must be included in the making of the rough and final sketch?
Taken at a 90 degree angle to the object, scales should be placed as close to the evidence as possible,
What are close up photographs?
Question the first officer on the scene, witnesses, and victims to determine what happened.
What is the first step in crime scene protocol prcoess?
-Boundaries are well established
-One person will move in a North to South Direction and the other will move in a east to West Direction.
What is the grid search pattern?
The final component of the lead investigator report.
What is the condition of the victim?
Measures the distance of the object from two fixed points of known distance from the other.
What is the triangulation measurement?
Digital Photos can be easily manipulated.
Why is digital photography not the preferred method of choice?