More Crime Scene Stuff
This documents who has handled a piece of evidence.
What is the chain of custody?
Updating your location and maintaining a high level of officer safety. If this person is not privy to this information, you better hope God is!
What is dispatch/communications?
Independent of the investigation, unaware of the suspect, and provides instructions to the victim or witness.
What is the lineup administrator?
The careful recording word for word or tape-recorded statement of the victim or witness including non-verbal communication or actions. Additionally, documenting the precise photograph selected, or explanation when unable to identify a suspect and why for the investigative file and preserving the entire photo array as evidence.
What is the lineup documentation process?
No direct bearing on the facts.
What are irrelevant questions?
A person you come in contact with on patrol can be a source of information and does not necessarily generate an incident report.
What is a field contact?
Crime scene unit, canine, aerial support, SWAT, or fugitive taskforce, to name a few.
What are Agency resources?
The two types of photo array presentations.
What is simultaneous and sequential?
Review of reports, case files, photographs, evidence, supplemental reports, videos, and the chain of custody.
What is preparing for testimony?
Giving the impression that you are inept, unreliable, or lacking confidence.
What are cross-examination tactics?
The Latin word for how someone does something, usually repetitive in nature.
What is Modus Operandi?
Victims and witnesses are separately taken to a location in which a suspect has been detained.
What is a showup?
Independent administrator presents individual photographs one at a time to the victim or witness.
What is a sequential presentation?
An attorney's office, the judge's chamber, or the witness stand.
What are places to give testimony or to testify?
Convey professionalism, knowledge, and confidence and give firm, decisive answers.
What is responding to cross-examination tactics?
Two main types of information to obtain information about an individual.
What are private and public records?
Comprised of a group of live, not dead, people that are examined by the victim or eyewitnesses of a crime.
What is a live lineup?
The Independent administrator presents a group of photographs to the victim or witness.
What is a Simultaneous Presentation?
Forbids those who will testify from discussing the case.
What is the fule of sequestration?
A quick definition of Locard's Theory.
What is every contact leaves a trace?
Victim and witness interviews, following leads of known associates or family members, and help locate this person.
What is the suspect?
What is a photo array?
The reading of standardized instructions to the victim or witness to ensure consistent administration of the photo lineup.
What is acknowledgment?
Take a pause, carefully listen, collect your thoughts, understanding what is being asked, and forget the fluff.
What are answering questions?
Your instructor's names and the agencies that they work for, and for how long.
Who are Paula, PCSO, 26 years; Yaiza, Lakeland PD, 6 years and Kim, Lakeland PD 24 years 9 months?