Crime Scene
To find out what crime was committed, when was the crime was committed, who committed the crime, how the crime was committed and why the crime was committed.
What is A Crime Scene Investigation?
* Amounts of concern from the public expressed by roadblocks
* Likelihood of success that roadblocks provide for the public
* The severity that roadblocks influence with free will of the public
What is The Requirements of Roadblocks?
Give investigators a workable area to work on.
What is Search Patterns?
*Firefighters
*Police
*Paramedics
What is Who Responds To A Crime Scene?
Evidence that in any way is not admissible.
What is Contaminated Evidence?
Can search a passenger’s belongings with an arrest or probable cause. After an arrest officers can search the entire vehicle to look for evidence.
What is Officers?
Officers are assigned lanes by a superior to investigate.
What is Lane-Search Patterns?
911
What is The Emergency Number If A Crime Is or did Occur?
Can only begin after the scene has been secured, witnesses have been located for questioning and a search plan has been created.
What is a Search?
To gather information from drivers and passengers.
What is Roadblock Stops Are Used?
Officers start in the center and work their way in an ever-widening circled until the entire area has been investigated.
What is a Circled Search?
*Sexual Assault or Assault
*Arson
*Burglary
What is Emergency Crimes?
Coordinates to a specific crime. Not every item found at a crime scene qualifies as evidence.
What is Specific Evidence?
Can be done without the need of a warrant or any suspicion. Passengers of vehicles are all detained at stops and can be arrested for possession of contraband found.
What is Border Searches?
The entire area is divided into squares and is number for officers to investigate.
What is Zone/Sector Search Pattern?
Act on their own judgement if they have no time to ask for a warrant such when loud screams are heard coming from a house.
What is Officers Are Allowed To?
Requires investigators to consider the approximate size of the item before searching and is the most effective way for investigators to find the most important evidence with the chance of evidence being destroyed.
What is the Elephant-In-A-Matchbox Doctrine?
The court has the responsibility to protect the property from unauthorized interference, being stolen or damaged, away from the public (ex. stolen items) and finding the owner of the property.
What is After Property Has Been Seized?
Ex. The floor provides the most evidence followed by doors and windows. The ceiling may also contain evidence such as bullet holes. The search for these items inside of property.
What is Interior Searches?
* Officers must believe that a real emergency has occurred
* Cannot be used to solely to find evidence
* The emergency and the area being searched must have some sort of connection
What is Emergency Situation Requirements?