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What are the primary functions of initial police responders at a serious crime scene?
- Attend the scene at an early stage
- Take control of the situation
- Co-ordinate tasks
What is the definition of the appreciation method?
It considers all appropriate factors and weighs the benefits and risks of all alternative solutions, allowing sound decisions to be taken.
What are the benefits of the appreciation technique?
- Informs the Police of the objective
- Manages risk
- Ensures nothing is overlooked
- Reduces uncertainty
- Ensures effective use of resources.
- Establishes a sequence of activities to be carried out.
What is the first priority in attending any scene?
Ensuring the safety of attending Police. It is also imperative that Police responders ensure their own safety, the safety of other responders and others at the scene.
What are the three categories of the physical condition of the victim?
- Alive and uninjured
- Alive but injured
- Shows no signs of life
What is the purpose of a scene guard and log?
Ensure:
- No unauthorised entry,
- Evidence is secured,
- Intel opportunities are maximised, an
- Contamination issues managed.
What factors should be considered when removing a body from a scene?
- Notify the Coroner and confirm response.
- Obtain the views of the Crown and Pathologist
- Consult other experts
- Requirements of other examinations required before removal.
- Best method/route for body removal.
- Supervision of body removal.
- Chain of custody of the body from scene to mortuary.
- Safe custody of exhibits.
- Family/cultural considerations.
- Standard operating procedure for protective clothing disposal.
What evidence may be lost or contaminated by moving the body?
- Larvae and insects
- Potential fingerprints
- DNA
- Firearms residue
- Loose hairs, fibres, glass, paint or other fragments
What might the pathologist’s findings show?
- Mode and time of death
- How injuries/events lead to death
- Nature and size of the weapon used
- Stature and height of the suspect
- ID the victim
- Negate possible defences
Which members of Police should attend the post mortem?
- OC Investigation
- OC Body
- Fingerprint officer
- Police photographer
- Designated exhibits officer
When skeletal remains are found a pathologist, assisted by a forensic anthropologist, can usually provide what information?
- Whether the remains are bones
- Whether the bones are human
- The age, gender and height/race of the person
What is the primary function of a family liaison officer?
They are an investigator first and foremost. Their day to day role includes the management of the partnership between the family and the investigation.
They must also offer, facilitate and co-ordinate support that addresses the needs of the family.
What points should a family liaison plan consider?
- Selection of the FLO
- Exit plan for the FLO
- Objectives of the family liaison
- Methods of family interviews
- Information to be released and withheld from the family
- Why requests from the family were declined.
- Complaints made by the family.
- Support for the FLO.
- Liaison with Victim Support and other agencies.
What is the purpose of an area canvass?
Identify witnesses to the movements of the offender before and after the offence occurred, as well as the witnesses to the actual offence.
What should an area canvass strategy cover?
- Objectives
- Location parameters
- Time parameters
- Risk assessment
- Identifying suspects/POIs
- Identifying witnesses
- Resources
- Use of questionnaires
What are the purposes of the suspects team?
- Obtaining information about suspects and POIs
- Thoroughly profiling and investigating all suspects and persons of interest
- Seeking evidence to cover all ingredients
- Mitigating and dealing with possible defences
Name some potential sources of information about suspects
- Financial records
- CCTV
- Telco
- Cell phone data
- Internet
- Vehicle GPS
On appointment to the role the disclosure manager must
- Read the file
- Ensure they have the relevant access in IMT
- Report to the 2IC for a briefing around what is discoverable and what is not.
The O/C Exhibits should only accept an exhibit if …
- The exhibit is labelled with a unique number and the operation name.
- The scene exhibit schedule contains the exhibit with description, finders name, time, date and location of finding.
- The exhibit is correctly packaged and sealed. The exhibit label is visible and secured to the outside of the package.
- Any action required to preserve the exhibit has been taken promptly.
What is the process for submissions of exhibits for examination?
- Ensure exhibit examination decisions are confirmed through the forensic strategy meeting.
- Record in the exhibit register all decisions taken about the types of examinations to be considered and the priority allocated to each exhibit.
- Ensure OC investigations has authorised the proposed examination.
- Prepare Pol 143
- Prepare exhibits before being delivered:
- All items separately wrapped.
- All parcels sealed
- All items named and numbered
- All items listed and list attached to Pol 143
- The pol 143 is consistent with the labels on the items.
- Items are in an appropriate condition.
What is the chain of custody?
Every individual who has had custody of an exhibit from the time it was first discovered until the time it is produced in court.
It is used to demonstrate the integrity, and therefore admissibility, of exhibits.
List the exhibit number ranges
Admin - 10000 Victim- 15000 Witnesses - 20000 Area Canvass - 25000/CCTV Scene - 30000 Suspects - 50000 Fingerprints - 70000 Document Section - 75000 Forensics - 78000 HTCG - 80000 External - 90000
