scene preservation and taking a picture on case studies
"Just imagine a murder scene."
A police, a medical examiner and a court of justice all show different type of interests on their needs. A court of justice only cares about collecting evidence by preservation of the scene for the institution and support of a public action. The medical examiner also focuses on scene preservation in order to deter-mine the cause of death. However, the police are pressured on arresting a criminal and perfect scene preservation at the same time. A crime is committed faster, intellectual and being specialized over a wider area these days. Further, criminals even try to delude the police by faking an actual spot ingeniously rather by just damaging or demolishing it.
A little delay of police´ s action will make hard to find a criminal. Even if a criminal is arrested, it is still hard to find physical or human evidence, which results in necessary change in basic investigation process for the time being. The change should cover organization structure and HR management to catch up with ever-changing crime trend.
As a crime occurs, most of police investigation proceeds in following order; scene preservation, on-the-spot inspection, scene investigation, criminal investigation, criminal arrest, on-site verification, forwarding to the prosecution. Among them, spot investigation is most essential and primal part. However, as stated before, the police overemphasize a criminal arrest, which makes 100% perfectly pre-served scene almost impossible by overlooking its importance. Anybody related to crime scene, a victim, the bereaved, 119 firemen or first arrived officer, can be blamed for a scene preservation failure. But it s deplorable to say that the police are the one who damage a crime scene under the name of priority on rapid criminal arrest. They hardly care for securing evidence according to proper procedure. The problem caused by a primal scene preservation failure is not counted at all. The only concern they have is how rapidly they arrest a criminal.
In the end, we need to come up with a systematic process that experts can gather evidence at perfectly preserved spot. Furthermore, we can get job done great by an effective communication between different parties; arties i.e. a police, ~
a medical examiner and a court of justice.
Hereby, this dissertation will discuss the right ways to preserve a crime scene through related case studies, along with general introduction of current scene preservation tools and taking pictures of spot.
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