Unit 1 Review: Crime Scene

Unit 1 Review: Crime Scene

7 S's

• Secure the scene

• Separate Witnesses

• Scanning the Scene (find important areas)

• Seeing the Scene (photographs)

• Sketching the Scene

• Search for Evidence

• Secure & Collect Evidence

Multiple Choice

Processing a crime scene involves:

• only collecting evidence and taking pictures

• Collecting evidence, sketching the scene, taking pictures, interviewing suspects, and examining the scene

• only examining the scene and interviewing witnesses

• only sketching the scene and taking pictures

Multiple Choice

A crime scene sketch is a required part of an investigation.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

It is important to separate witnesses at a crime scene in order to 

• prevent contamination of evidence
• prevent them from talking and forming a collusion
• prevent them from leaving the scene

Multiple Choice

The first step in investigating a crime scene is to

• examine possible evidence

• secure the crime scene

• document what happened

• process the crime scene evidence

Multiple Choice

Typically the first to arrive at a crime scene and they secure the scene

• detectives
• specialists
• district attorney
• police officers