Dept. Procedure 3 Flashcards
3.01 – ORGANIZATIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES (4/12/13)
How are Department investigative activities and personnel organized?
- Centralized investigations
- Criminal intelligence
- Area investigations
- Traffic investigations
3.01 – ORGANIZATIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES (4/12/13)
How are case responsibility and assignment determined?
- Type of offense
- Age of suspect
- Age of victim
- Location of offense
3.01 – ORGANIZATIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES (4/12/13)
Which investigative unit will assist the homicide unit with scene reconstruction?
Traffic investigations
3.01 – ORGANIZATIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES (4/12/13)
Juvenile Services Teams will investigate sex offenses with the victim and suspect under the age of 18. True or False?
TRUE
3.01 – ORGANIZATIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES (4/12/13)
Narcotics Section manages investigative funds, maintaining and retaining all investigative fund master records for how long?
Three years
3.02 – IMPOUNDS and EVIDENCE (09/25/2014)
Large car parts such as doors, hoods, bumpers, windshields, etc. will not be accepted in the property room. What do officers have to do?
Contact Property Room personnel for special arrangements to impound parts for specialized cases that will be examined for evidence.
3.03 – VEHICLE IMPOUND (08/16/2013)
The owner/suspect will be held responsible for administrative costs associated with the tow, storage for ONE day, and storage after the hold is removed. True or false?
TRUE
3.03 – VEHICLE IMPOUND (08/16/2013)
Vehicles impounded at a contracted tow company facility will become the responsibility of whom?
Case investigator
3.03 – VEHICLE IMPOUND (08/16/2013)
Vehicles impounded for evidence must be released within how many days?
Within three working days
3.03 – VEHICLE IMPOUND (08/16/2013)
Vehicles impounded for evidence must be released within how many days?
Within three working days
3.03 – VEHICLE IMPOUND (08/16/2013)
Who can approve extension to the three-day impound rule?
The lieutenant of the investigative units
3.03 – VEHICLE IMPOUND (08/16/2013)
The impounding officer or the assigned investigator will conduct an inventory of the vehicle being impounded and held as evidence?
Assigned investigator
3.03 – VEHICLE IMPOUND (08/16/2013)
Can vehicles be impounded and stored at a substation parking lot?
Not without express permission from Tow Admin or the watch commander
3.03 – VEHICLE IMPOUND (08/16/2013)
The assigned investigator and/or laboratory personnel will process the impounded vehicle and release it within how many working days?
Within three working days
3.03 – VEHICLE IMPOUND (08/16/2013)
Only who will contact the tow yard to initiate the release of a vehicle being held for evidence?
Only the tow administrator and the watch commander have authorization to remove the hold.
3.03 – VEHICLE IMPOUND (08/16/2013)
After how many days of receipt of the certified letter sent to the registered owner, who has not made any attempt to contact the investigator, will tow administrator make arrangements to have the vehicle towed to a contracted tow yard for lean sale processing?
10 Days
3.05 – JUVENILE INDEX (08/22/2014)
What is a juvenile index?
A central record file of all San Diego County juvenile residents taken into custody within the county.
3.04 – MARKING OF EVIDENCE (02/15/2011)
Officers in the field will not directly mark on items of evidence. True or false?
TRUE
3.05 – JUVENILE INDEX (08/22/2014)
Who maintains the juvenile index?
The Probation Department at Juvenile Hall
3.05 – JUVENILE INDEX (08/22/2014)
All wanted notices and/or cancellation notices for juvenile suspects by the SDPD should originate with which unit or Command?
Area command Juvenile Services Team
3.08 – JUVENILE PROCEDURE (02/13/2015)
Juvenile hall cannot accept minors under what age without a judge’s approval?
TWELVE (12)
3.08 – JUVENILE PROCEDURE (02/13/2015)
Officers should take juveniles with traffic warrants directly to where?
Deputies at traffic court
3.08 – JUVENILE PROCEDURE (02/13/2015)
Will the San Diego juvenile court website contain the minor’s school grades and attendance?
YES
3.08 – JUVENILE PROCEDURE (02/13/2015)
Officers cannot hold a juvenile longer than how many hours
Six hours