Initial Response Flashcards
VAWSEIPO:
Victims - identify and locate
Appreciation - assess risk, preserve life
Witnesses - locate and contain
Scene - preserve
Exhibits - note and preserve if neccessary
Ingredients - consider in regards to offence
Powers - identify what are available
Offender - identify and apprehend
4 things to do at scene
Freeze
Control
Guard
Preserve
4 steps of appreciation
Aim - clear accurate and consider statement that demonstrates a single objective
Factors - any circumstance or fact that could have an effect on the manner you will achieve your desired outcome
Courses open - list of possible ways the aim can be achieved
Plan - proposed course of action to achieve the desired outcome
If the victim is alive but injured
Call ambulance and consider resuscitation and note original body position and movements
If the victim is taken to hospital, do the following:
11 steps
Obtain a medical opinion on victim
Seize the victims clothing
Establish victims identity
Obtain a pre-transfusion blood sample
Seize any discarded bandages and record position where they came from
Arrange firearms residue samples where firearm is suspected
Note and photo any injuries
Arrange DNA swabs to be taken from the victims skin if appropriate
Obtain details of any and all people who visit or contact victim
Conduct a scoping interview with the victim if appropriate
Conduct preliminary interview with ambulance/emergency staff
If a victim shows no sign of life
Preserve life. If they have to be moved, record it.
Remain with the body until relieved
Arrange a doctor to pronounce life extinct
Treat the victim as a scene
Instruct medical stuff to leave clothes on the body
If medical treatment has been given leave anything in situ
If possible conduct scoping interviews with medical staff
Ascertain whether the victim spoke to anyone before death
Record body position and anything of note
Objectively record anything observed using all senses
Record all exhibits
Sketch a plan including the position of the body
