Investigating the Scene
This person must preserve and isolate the scene as much as pobbile
What is the First Responder
Three methods for crime scene recording
What are photography, sketches and notes
These are the two types of Sketches.
What is Rough and Finished?
All evidence from a Crime Scene must be packaged this way.
What is seperately?
True/False
Crime Labs do not solve crimes.
True
Have the potential to unintentionally destroy evidence
Who is every individual who enters the scene?
The most important prerequisite for photographing a crime scene.
What is an unaltered state?
This sketch is done during the early phase of the investigation.
What is the Rough Sketch?
These are unintended changes that can happen to physical evidence.
What are contamination, breakage, evaporation and scratches or bending?
This is where Forensic Science begins.
What is at the Crime Scene?
To be useful in any investigation, evidence must remain in this condition.
What is its original condition?
Photographs of this are especially important as it is often destroyed during testing.
What is Biological Evidence?
The Legend defines these.
Evidence indicated with Alphabet Characters and Camera Locations
These should never be used with evidence that is wet or contains biological material.
What is plastic packaging?
Not all Crime Scenes require this.
What is the removal of physical evidence?
Any object that can establish that a crime has or has not been committed
What is Physical Evidence?
This is a primary danger or concern when using digital images.
What is manipulation?
Three of the six additional items listed on the sketch.
What are: Case Number, Address or Location, Date and Time of Investigation, Type of Crime, Victim and Investigator?
This is a key concern in the collection of DNA evidence and should be guarded against with the use of masks worn by the collector.
What is contamination of the DNA evidence?
A list of all people who came into possession of physical evidence.
What is Chain of Custody?
Accomplishing this is the mark of a trained crime scene investigator
Three types of photos required from the Crime Scene.
What are Overview, Medium Range, Close-up?
One CAD program that will enable users to draw Crimes Scenes using a computer
What is SmartDraw 2019 (or others)?
These are two possible health concerns for investigators at the site of the Crime Scene
What are AIDS and Hepatitis C?
These are Crime Scene Search patterns.
What are Line, Grid, Spiral, Quadrant and Wheel/Ray?