Respond to a Crime Scene
Has a significant impact on the success of an investigation.
What are the actions of the first responder?
Keeps crowds away from evidence.
What is a crime scene perimeter?
Help protect the scene and evidence from unnecessary intrusion.
What is an alert officer?
Multiple officers maintaining crime scene logs are a result of.
What is multiple entry/exit locations or secondary scenes?
Open to the public.
What is public property?
Make detailed and systematic inquiries or observations.
What is an investigation?
The first action taken when arriving on a crime scene.
What is an officers safety concerns?
Risk when unauthorized people enter a scene
What is officer safety?
an action taken, after receiving a warning for violating crime scene barrier tape.
What is an arrest?
the act of documenting and collecting artifacts on a scene prior to investigative personnel arriving on scene.
What is protecting evidence from the weather?
Submission of a report, turn over to a detective or an investigator, or testifies in court.
When does an investigation end?
Artifacts furthest from the center of a crime scene.
What helps determine boundaries of a perimeter?
The use of verbal commands and directions.
What is enforce the perimeter?
Destroyed, altered or contaminated evidence within a crime scene.
What is required documentation within a report?
Crime scene perimeters should be
What is larger rather than smaller?
Anything that can prove or disprove a fact.
What is evidence?
Depends on the type of crime, evidence, and location.
What determines the size of the crime scene?
Fourth Amendment expectation of privacy in a public setting.
What is a requirement of a search warrant on private property?
Once a survey of the scene is complete, a supervisor or investigator may
What is adjust the original boundaries?
Provides proof of security.
What is a crime scene log?
Is less reliable because people perceive events differently, do not remember accurately, or lie.
What is testimonial evidence?
Personal observation, statements from victims and witnesses.
What determines the extent of a crime scene?
can easily cause damage, contaminate, degrade or destroy evidence at a scene, if an officer does not recognize impending threats.
What is curious people?
Will also accept
What is weather?
What is a crime scene log?
Perishable objects such as fingerprints, blood, or tire tracks.
What is physical evidence?