CJ-471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Altered Images, F-Number, Lossless Compression

• School: Boise State University
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ-471
• Professor: Vickie Gooch

Document Summary

Note- taking begins when the investigator is contacted and requested to report to the crime scene. The crime scene notes should begin with: the identity of the person who contacted the investigator, time of contact and arrival at the crime scene, preliminary case information, personnel present on arrival and those being contacted. Notes contain a personnel log, all observations made by the investigator and the time observations were made. Notes are taken in a uniform layout, concurrently as the observations are made. Notes are written in a bound notebook in blue or black ink. So people that are reading it can understand what you did in a chronological order. Investigators may choose to record crime scene notes on audio tapes. This leaves the hands free to process the scene as the notes are taken. Tapes-recorded notes must eventually be transcribed to a written document. If you"(cid:396)e (cid:374)ot goi(cid:374)g to collect it then it"s not evidence.