Quality Assurance
The software program used for document management and other QA related workflows.
What is Qualtrax/Ideagen?
The Chief Legal Counsel of the Massachusetts State Police.
Who is Jennifer Staples?
The name for the red label used to ensure the integrity of Drug Evidence.
What is a Drug Security Seal?
A test that indicates but does not confirm the presence of a substance.
What is a screening or presumptive test?
The three level 1 patterns of fingerprints.
What are loop, arch, and whorl?
CAR in Quality Assurance
What is Corrective Action Report?
MSPCL records are deemed to be within the ______, _______, and _______ of the Commonwealth regardless of whether they are actually transmitted to prosecutor.
What is Care, Custody, and Control?
The type of cases retained for 9 months from date of receipt.
What are postmortem cases?
The unit comprised of civilian personnel from multiple other units.
What is CSRU (Crime Scene Response Unit)?
NIBIN
What is the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network?
The term used to define an opportunity for improvement in casework.
What is Nonconforming work?
Evidence that is favorable to the defendant in a criminal trial that exonerates or tends to exonerate the defendant of guilt.
What is exculpatory evidence?
Title of a Drug Report
What is a Certificate of Drug Analysis?
The realignment of two or more objects to prove that they at one time formed a single object.
What is a physical match?
Any individual convicted of a felony in MA must submit a DNA sample to this database?
What is CODIS?
Procedure by which an authoritative body gives formal recognition that a lab is competent to carry out specified tasks.
What is accreditation?
A request that does not require the requestor to identify themselves or the reason for the request.
What is a Public Records Request?
The Toxicology Unit performs testing for the presence of what three things.
What are alcohol, drugs, and poisons?
The timeframe for when GSR Primer Residue Collection on an individual should be completed.
What is within 4 hours?
RAC in Footwear Analysis & Comparison
What is Randomly Acquired Characteristics?
The year in which the MSP Crime Laboratory was first accredited.
What is 2002?
The Massachusetts Rule of Criminal Procedure that governs Discovery in Criminal Cases.
What is Rule 14?
The Office of Alcohol is accredited in what field.
What is Forensic Calibration?
The four steps of DNA testing.
What is Extraction, Quantification, Amplification and Interpretation?
Name one of the test fire machines used in firearm examination.
What is Water Tank, Cotton Recovery Device, or Snail?