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CSI Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American police procedural drama television series created by Anthony E. Zuiker and premiered on CBS. CSI follows Las Vegas forensic detectives as they utilize clear and convincing physical evidence to solve murder cases.
893 Questions
What is luminol used for in crime scenes?
The basic idea of luminol is to reveal blood traces with a light producing chemical reaction between several chemicals and hemoglobin.
CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) agents take pieces of evidence from a crime scene (anything from clothes and undergarments or pictures to various weapons) and subject them to a variety of chemical, physical and analytical tests to see know the who's, what's, where's and why's of that crime scene.
What does a forensic scientist do?
A forensic scientist is a scientist who analyzes biological, chemical, or physical samples taken into evidence during a criminal investigation. It's their work to provide the proof the police need to bring the case to court.
Also Forensic scientists examine contact trace materials associated with crimes in order to provide evidence for criminal investigations. The work is usually dealt with under three sections: biology, chemistry and drugs/toxicology.
They can use parts of the victim's body, usually the bones, to identify: the cause of death; the gender, ethnicity, age, height of the victim; and, how long the victim has been dead.
The clothes that forensic scientist wear is a plastic white suit and a plastic white shoes which like a shopping bag.
What are the examples of special crime investigation?
Special crime investigations often focus on unique or complex criminal activities, such as organized crime, human trafficking, cybercrime, and terrorism. For instance, task forces may be formed to tackle drug trafficking networks, employing advanced surveillance techniques and intelligence gathering. Additionally, financial crimes like money laundering and fraud require specialized forensic accounting to trace illicit funds. These investigations typically involve collaboration between various law enforcement agencies and specialized units.
Who is the first to arrive at a crime scene?
the FAO (first attending officer) is first on the scene when called to a crime.
What are types of evidence found at a crime scene?
Fingerprints, impressoin marks, broken glass, paint, hairs and fibers, ballistics, dust or dirt, documents, bodily fluids, etc.
What are types of crime scene search methods?
dusting for fingerprints, forensics, evidence of a struggle, how has the body (if any)
been killed, what has been taken, who is the victim of the crime, does the victim have a criminal record, does the victim have any links to the criminal/suspect.
What are some disadvantages of being a crime scene investigator?
Some disadvantages of being a crime scene investigator are being on call any time of the day or night, being exposed to dangerous situations and/or toxic chemicals, and the small risk one could be killed on the job.
One must travel to crime scenes fairly quickly to ensure evidence is not lost, tampered with, compromised or destroyed. Crime scenes may be discovered during inclement weather. Whether it is hot or freezing and snowing hard in a strong wind, you have to be on the scene. Crime scene investigation is probably safer than typical law enforcement activities such as settling domestic disputes or apprehending violent criminals.
How do you collect semen in a crime scene?
You get it off of any surface you find it on in the scene and contain it and label it. You cannot get a sample from the body (if there is one) until autopsy. When it comes to rape cases, you perform a Medical Exam with specifics on certain areas. This type of ME is commonly known as a rape kit. To get a sample from a possible suspect, you would need a warrant for DNA or a consentual subject.
What would the crime scene investigation unit do at a crime scene?
Crime scene investigators analyze every aspect of a crime, including the body, the location, fingerprints, fibers, ground, and sometimes air and water. They use special equipment that displays blood stains that may have been scrubbed away.
What kind of evidence does a crime scene investigator collect at a crime scene?
Hair fibers, finger prints, DNA, blood samples, weapon, anything to do with the crime. Not just things that the person has left behind but also personal things from the crime scene that belong to the victim to help determine who would have committed the crime, like mobile phones computers, certain types of work. also the background of the victim can be gathered by other people at the house or store and testimonies of people who live near or were passing are helpful.
Someone who gathers evidence at a crime scene?
I think first you have to realise what you say or document about a crime scene you will be accountable so you have to be honest and truthful. Then take it from the top and try to remember what you say or heard. If you will be brought to the witness stand you will have to stick to your story.Good luck.
How can you become a crime scene investigator?
In our department, all Crime Scene personnel are Police Officers assigned to the Detective Division. They receive additional training to be crime scene photographers.
In college, you should probably take up photography class, and it is strongly recommended, but not needed. The reason for this is because the better the photos you take, the more useful you are seen in the industry.
Also, you should take Criminal Law classes in order to understand the industry and how it is best to get the right shot at a most likely gruesome scene.
Just go to a crime scene and take a picture. HA HA HA HA HA HA.
What happens at a crime scene?
Lets start with the prints!
26105 PROCEDURE - CRIME SCENE FINGER MARK
COMPARISON & SPECULATIVE SEARCHING
Version: 7 Last Updated: 09/07/09 Review Date: 09/07/12
ECHR Potential Equality Impact Assessment: Low
1. About This Procedure
1.1.Finger marks recovered from crime scenes or developed /
photographed by the Chemical Treatment Unit are submitted to the
Fingerprint Bureau. This procedure outlines services available to
investigating officers from the Fingerprint Bureau and how they
should go about using those services.
2. Risk Assessments / Health & Safety Considerations
2.1.Normal health and safety considerations apply.
3. Procedure
3.1. General
3.1.1. Finger marks will only be accepted at the Fingerprint Bureau if
an occurrence number, or an explanation as to why an
occurrence number is not given, is supplied.
3.1.2 Where finger marks are received at the Fingerprint Bureau and
the occurrence is shown as detected on the Records
Management System (RMS), no work will be undertaken as a
matter of course. The Investigating Officer will be advised that
no action will be taken unless they specifically request it. Such
requests should be sent to the Fingerprint Bureau via the
appropriate occurrence on RMS.
3.2. Suspect(s) Nominated For Comparison
3.2.1 Officers should be aware that Fingerprint examination is a time
intensive process and that submission of speculative nominated
'suspects', not supported by strong intelligence, has a negative
impact on the ability of Bureau to provide an effective service to
investigators.
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3.2.2 Officers must use an intelligence led approach to nominating
suspects for comparison against crime scene finger marks. The
below should be used by officers as guidelines when nominating
suspects:
a) suspect stopped in the vicinity of the crime and information
recorded on C12;
b) suspect sighted in vicinity of crime and recorded on an
intelligence log;
c) provenanced intelligence log stating suspect is responsible
for crime;
d) suspect previously arrested for crime at same address /
immediate vicinity;
e) crimes either linked forensically or by a defined MO.
3.2.3 Officers can request the comparison of suspect(s) fingerprints
against crime scene finger marks by sending a task to the
Fingerprint Bureau via the appropriate occurrence on RMS,
stating:
a) the Scientific Services Department reference, if known,
otherwise the occurence number;
b) the full name, date of birth and Criminal Records Office
(CRO) number of the suspect(s) to be compared;
c) the provenance / reason for the nomination / request.
3.2.4 Fingerprint Examiners arrange and compare finger marks in a
hierarchical order of apparent evidential value (for example,
finger marks recovered from the inside of a stolen vehicle will
be compared before those from the outside). Once a finger
mark has been identified to an individual, comparison work will
cease. The fact that other finger mark(s) may remain
unexamined will be stated on an Identification Notification
issued by the Fingerprint Bureau.
3.2.5 This serves as 'primary disclosure' under the
Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act (CPIA) and it is the
responsibility of the Investigating Officer to inform the
Fingerprint Bureau of any other work that they require to be
undertaken, e.g. the examination of other finger marks against
other suspects etc.
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3.3 Speculative Computerised Searching (Automated
Fingerprint Identification System - AFIS)
3.3.1 Finger marks suitable for speculative searching on AFIS will be
compared against elimination (aggrieved, legitimate access,
witnesses) fingerprints, if supplied, and also the fingerprints of
any nominated suspect(s).
3.3.2 Any suitable marks which remain 'unidentified' after this process
will be speculatively searched on AFIS. There is no need for the
Investigating Officer to request that this is done.
3.4 Resulting
3.4.1 If finger mark(s) are 'identified' to an individual as a result of
either AFIS searching or suspect comparison, after appropriate
verification the Bureau will advise the Forensic Intelligence Unit,
who will record this on RMS and pass the information to the IMU
for the appropriate OCU.
3.4.2 Negative or inconclusive suspect comparisons will be resulted by
Bureau Staff directly to RMS.
3.5 Terminology
3.5.1 The Fingerprint Bureau uses the terminology below when
analysing finger / palm marks ("friction ridge detail") from
crime scenes. These terms are applied beforeany comparisons
are undertaken and indicate the quality / potential of the crime
scene impression(s).
a) AFIS - Sufficient degree of friction ridge detail present for
comparison and identification purposes. Also suitable for
speculative searching on an Automated Fingerprint
Identification System (AFIS).
b) SUFF - Sufficient degree of friction ridge detail present for
comparison and identification purposes. Not suitable for
speculative searching on an Automated Fingerprint
Identification System (AFIS).
c) FEPO (For Exclusion Purposes Only) - Sufficient degree of
friction ridge detail present for comparison purposes,
however insufficient for identification purposes. It may be
possible to compare such impressions against those on a
fingerprint form and exclude the possibility that they were
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made by that person. The only possible results from a
comparison will be either NOT IDENTIFIEDor
INCONCLUSIVE (see below). As such, marks analysed as
FEPO are not compared routinely, but only upon specific
request by the investigating officer.
d) INS - Insufficient degree of friction ridge detail present for
comparison purposes. The finger / palm marks from the
crime scene contain too little detail to be of any use.
3.5.2 To assist officers in their investigation, Bureau Staff also use the
above terminology to post a "Status" working sheet to RMS for
each submission received from Scenes of Crime or the Chemical
Treatment Unit. Officers should be aware that the "Status" is
effectively indicative of the "best" impression within each
submission and, therefore, impressions of lower standard /
potential may well also be present.
3.5.3 The Fingerprint Bureau uses the following terminology when
resulting the comparison of finger / palm marks from a crime
scene against impressions on a fingerprint form. These terms
are applied to crime scene marks after they have been
compared and so are the "result" for the person whose prints
have been compared:
a) IDENTIFIED - The same person made the finger / palm
impression on the fingerprint form and the mark from the
crime scene.
b) NOT IDENTIFIED - The person who made the finger /
palm impression on the fingerprint form is not the person
who made the finger / palm mark(s) from the crime scene.
c) INCONCLUSIVE - The finger / palm mark(s) from the
crime scene may or may not have been made by the person
who made the finger / palm impression on the fingerprint
form. It is not possible to give a definitive positive or
negative result.
d) Unable to make comparison due to the poor quality of the
fingerprint form. Some impressions on fingerprint forms are
not suitable for comparison. Results from the Fingerprint
Bureau will make it clear if this applies.
3.6 Elimination Fingerprints (Aggrieved, Legitimate Access,
Witnesses)
3.6.1 Officers are requested to obtain elimination fingerprints,
wherever practicable, and submit them to the Fingerprint
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Bureau to prevent unnecessary AFIS searching and / or
comparison of non-offenders finger marks. See 26104
Procedure - Taking and Submitting Fingerprints, Section 3.7.
3.7 Fingerprint Identifications
3.7.1 Full details of how officers should deal with fingerprint
identifications are set out in FPP 26116 Dealing with Fingerprint
Identifications
3.7.2 Specifically, FPP 26116 includes advice on interview strategy
(Section 3.4) and on the confirmation of identifications after
arrest using the evidential fingerprints (Section 3.5)
4 Roles And Responsibilities
4.1 The Officer shall:
a) provenance all suspect nomination requests;
b) where practicable, obtain and submit elimination fingerprints
to the Fingerprint Bureau.
4.2 Fingerprint Bureau Staff are responsible for undertaking comparisons
against crime scene finger marks, speculative computer (AFIS)
searching and liasing with the Officer as necessary.
5 Administration
5.1 Investigating Officers should use RMS tasking for all requests and /
or suspect nominations.
5.2 The Fingerprint Bureau will strive to undertake crime scene finger
mark comparisons and / or speculative computer (AFIS) searching
within the timescales stated in 26100 Policy - Scientific Services.
6 Monitoring / Evaluation
6.1 Monitoring the Bureau's performance against the Service Level
Agreement standards for crime scene mark processing set out in
26100 Policy - Scientific Services is the responsibility of the
Supervisory Fingerprint Officers.
6.2 Evaluation of the Fingerprint Bureau's performance is undertaken by
the Scientific Services Support Units Manager.
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7 Review
7.1 An annual review of this procedure is anticipated to ensure currency
and accuracy of the instructions provided.
8 Other Linked Procedures, Policies And Information
Sources
8.1 26100 Policy - Scientific Services
8.2 26116 Procedure - Dealing with Fingerprint Identifications
8.3 26106 Procedure - Requesting Fingerprint Evidence
8.4 Scientific Services Department Internal Procedure ISO/03:
Processing Fingerprint Case Submissions (available from Fingerprint
Bureau)
8.5 Contact Fingerprint Bureau: 71-1162 or 71-2055.
Origin: Scientific Services
Is the crime scene the most important area in forensic science?
Very important. A fingerprint is a step away from solving a crime, unless the fingerprint belongs to the victim. But, if someone was apparently murdered, and criminal investigators find fingerprints around the scene, they use those prints to match up to another person's prints, to figure out if this person is a prime suspect to the crime.
What is the average starting pay with an associates degree?
To answer this question simply, the type of degree you have, where you live, the experience you have, all are factors to how much you will be paid in the beginning, however, on the average, for a person with an associates degree in accounting, the pay is usually between $20 - 40K a year.
Can the grid method be used inside at a crime scene?
Is one method one evidence search technique that is more utilized in an outdoor crime scene rather then indoors.
What is the opera that ziva david was listening to at the end of NCIS S10E07?
"O Mio Babbino Caro" from the Puccini Opera Gianni Schicchi
How did warrik brown die on csi?
At the end of season 8, he was framed for killing a woman and then a man named Gedda. He is arrested and then killed by Undersherriff McKeen (he actually dies in the first season 9 episode).
If you read a realistic job description of a CSI, it's clear that the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation doesn't accurately portray the profession.
To be a CSI, you have to be physically fit and agile. You must have a firearm while working, so you'll be trained to handle a weapon for safety precautions.
To qualify to be a CSI you need exactly 720 hours of training in crime scene processing; you also need a combined total of 240 hours of training in 5 other important fields such as photography and fingerprinting.
The job requires much police work, and can often at times be dangerous and unsafe. There can be hostage situations, gun fire, and other risky factors. Remember that being a CSI means that, though it could rarely happen, you're involved with a murder - you could become a personal target of the perpetrator if something goes wrong.
Finally, you need to have a strong sense of justice. Being a CSI involves court cases, hearings, interrogations and observing many details at the crime scene to put perpetrator(s) in prison. The job is a mental and emotional challenge but can be enjoyable for those who want to help others and send criminals to jail.
Who found Warricks killer in csi?
Nick finds him in the mountains. Nick holds him at gunpoint. He nearly shoots him but he misses on purpose.
Who are the cast members of CSI Las Vegas?
Catherine Willows- Marg Helgenberger
Nick Stokes- George Eads
Jim Brass- Paul Guilfoyle
Greg Sanders- Eric Szmanda
Doc Robbins- Robert David Hall
David Hodges- Wallace Langham
Raymond Langston- Laurence Fishbourne
Wendy Simms- Liz Vassey
Sara Sidle- Jorja Fox
