Property and Evidence Manual

Burbank Police Department

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This manual is targeted at the relatively small area of the proper method of documenting, preserving, packaging and marking for later identification, those physical items already gathered and recognized as evidence.

Most items gathered as physical evidence can be handled by adhering to industry standards and best practices. For those items in particular, this manual has only generalized instructions. In-depth, specialized instruction regarding items which require special handling and/or distribution may be found in the index

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