PRINT IT!
Type of fingerprints found using powder and brush.
What are latent prints?
What is cross contamination?
Evidence will rot and/or mold if placed in plastic.
Why do we allow wet items to dry and package them in paper?
These are the four common search methods used to survey/search crime scenes.
What are strip, grid, circular, and quadrant?
Evidence must be properly packaged to prevent this while being transported.
What is preventing damage and maintaining the physical integrity/original state of evidence?
Smooth, hard, clean surfaces are more likely to reveal these.
What are fingerprints?
Prepare this any time evidence is tagged and packaged.
What is an evidence receipt?
This type of evidence helps investigators narrow the possibility of one person having committed the crime.
What is DNA?
This is the proper order for processing a crime scene.
What is properly approach the scene, protect the scene, remove & separate witnesses, conduct a preliminary survey, then record/document the scene?
When might it be appropriate to remove evidence before processing the scene?
What is security reasons, inclement weather, and preventing contamination of evidence?
This type of fingerprint is left behind when a finger touches materials such as wet paint, soft wax, or soap.
Hint: It's visible to the naked eye.
What is a plastic print?
The seizing officer should mark evidence he/she collects by doing this.
(and watching my head explode)
What is marking evidence with his/her initials?
An impression, other than fingerprints, that can be found at a crime scene.
What is a shoe, tire, teeth, screwdriver, or pry bar impression?
(Anything that leaves behind an indention)
The best search method for outdoor searches.
What is a strip search?
The investigator should make precise notes on this when collecting evidence.
What is recording exactly where evidence was collected from?
After developing a fingerprint using fingerprint powder and a brush, how to you lift it?
What is lift tape?
Items which by their very nature can not be marked with initials.
What are paint scrapings, drugs, hair, and broken glass?
The first steps in collecting non-fingerprint impressions.
(Should also be used when collecting fingerprint impressions)
Start in the center and move out in widening rings.
What is a circular search?
Common methods used to document a crime scene.
What are notes, photographs, and diagrams or sketches?
Fingerprints should be collected from these individuals to help eliminate unidentified latent prints from a crime scene.
What are victims and suspects?
In general, anything you can preserve, protect, and transport from a crime scene can be sent here for further details.
What is a crime lab?
The three main sources of physical evidence
What are the crime scene, the suspect, and the victim?
Search north to south, then east to west,
What is a grid search?
This is done to properly maintain the integrity of physical evidence.
(From collection to court)
What is
-Maintaining evidence in its original state/unaltered
-Maintaining a chain of custody
-Properly packaging to prevent damage
-Properly marking evidence to be identified in court?