Crime Scene Investigation

During which step of crime scene investigation do investigators take photographs?

• Step 1 Securing the Scene

• Step 2 Separating Witnesses

• Step 3 Scanning the Scene

• Step 4 Seeing the Scene

Who is in charge of securing the crime scene?

• the suspect

• The first responders

• Investigators

• witnesses

True or False: Pictures are taken before a sketch is made.

• True

• False

During which two steps of crime scene investigation do investigators mark evidence with evidence markers?

• Steps 1 & 2

• Steps 3 & 7

• Steps 3 & 6

• Steps 4 & 6

What are 3 examples of questions that detectives may ask crime scene witnesses while one question is not an example.

• who do you think is the killer?

• What did you see?

• Do you recognize the person?

• What brought you

  to this location?

True or False: a record of everyone who enters the crime scene must be kept

• true

• false

criminal laboratories also need _______ to run.

• breaks

• evidence

• gloves

• cars

What process must investigators follow when collecting evidence and packaging evidence at the crime scene?

• The chain of custody

• preserve and protect

• ask questions

• take pictures

How do the officers secure the scene?

• saying
  "Do not Pass"

• with a camera

• with rope and barricades

• using evidence markers

What is the process of taking photographs at a crime scene?

• A scale marker must be in each photograph

• the entire crime scene must be photographed

• It can be blurry

• evidence must be photographed at 3 different angles