Crime Scene Processing

The first step in the seven S's of crime scene investigators is

• scanning the scene

• searching for evidence

• securing the scene

• securing and collecting evidence

Who can enter a crime scene during the crime scene investigation?

• Anyone as long as they sign the log sheet

• only crime scene investigators and authorized personnel

• Suspects

• witnesses

The first officer arriving at a crime scene, after providing or obtaining medical assistance for the injured and effecting an arrest of suspects (if possible), should immediately:

• photograph the scene.

• search for evidence.

• make a rough sketch of the scene.

• secure the scene.

The ability to establish the exact whereabouts of an item of evidence and under whose control it was from its collection at the crime scene to its presentation in the courtroom and everywhere in between is called

• chain of command

• record of evidence

• chain of custody

With contact between two items, there will be an exchange. This is known as _____

• physical evdience

• Locard's exchange principle

• Forensic exchange principle

• the law of forensics 

small but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at a crime scene

• individual evidence

• class evidence

• direct evidence

• trace evidence

An alternate location where additional evidence has been found.

• Secondary crime scene

• Primary crime scene

• Physical location 

• Suspected location 

1st "S" of crime scene investigation

• secure scene

• secure evidence

• see

• search

3rd "S" of crime scene investigation

• sketch scene

• scan scene

• see scene

• search

5th "S" of crime scene investigation

• sketch scene

• scan scene

• see scene

• search