Crime Scene Response Guidelines

• Overview
  
  
• Personnel Duties and Responsibilities
  Team Leader
  Photographer and Photographic Log Recorder
  Sketch Preparer
  Evidence Recorder/Custodian
  Specialists
  
  
• Organization and Procedures for Search Operations
  Preparation
  Basic Stages in a Search
  Approach Scene
  Secure and Protect Scene
  Initiate Preliminary Survey
  Evaluate Physical Evidence Possibilities
  Prepare Narrative Description
  Photograph Scene
  Prepare diagram/sketch of scene
  Conduct Detailed Search/Record, and Collect Physical Evidence
  Conduct Final Survey
  Release Crime Scene
  
  
• Documentation Procedures
  Administrative Worksheet
  Narrative Description
  Photographic Log
  Diagram/Sketch
  Evidence Recovery Log
  Latent Print Lift Log
  
  

Crime Scene Response Articles

• Searching in Stages to Prevent Destruction of Evidence at Crime Scenes, by Greg Dagnan
• Increasing Crime Scene Integrity by Creating Multiple Security Levels, by Greg Dagnan
• Duty Description for the Crime Scene Investigator by Mike Byrd
• Disaster Management by Mike Byrd
• Hazards and a Crime Scene by Mike Byrd
• Reaching Beyond the Norm by Mike Byrd