Dispatch Of Units On 421 Flashcards
421:
Patrol units will not respond to routine sick and injured persons calls that include: injuries from falls or accidents,______________, heart attacks, and _____________?
General illness
Accidental Overdoses
421:
Patrol units will be dispatched to 421 calls that include?
- Are suspicious in nature
- Unknown trouble
- Traffic or criminal acts
- Result of a gunshot
- Other circumstances where police are needed.
421:
Escorting civilians, transporting patients for medical emergencies must be_________________?
Avoided
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If a person is suffering from a life threatening injury or substantial head trauma, what is always done?
An ICR (sick and injured) AND Photographs
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Manners of death?
Natural Accidental Homicide Suicide Undetermined
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What is the first thing a patrol officer must do upon arriving on a death?
Determine if it is suspicious or the result of a homicide, before securing the scene
421:
T/F, Supervisors are required to respond to ALL deaths?
False, suspicious deaths
421:
Supervisors on death scenes are required to?
Ensure CSA has been requested
Ensure homicide detectives have been notified.
421:
When WILL Homicides and suspicious deaths be completed on ICR’s?
When requested to do so by homicide.
421:
According to policy, regarding deaths, when is the deputy coroner advised by patrol officers?
Dead Bodies OTHER than homicides, In-Custody Deaths.
421:
According to Policy, when is CSA advised regarding deaths?
Deaths considered NOT natural, specifically including suicides and overdoses.
421:
Supervisor responsibilities on deaths include?
For Homicides and Suspicious Deaths
- Ensure CSA is requested.
- Ensure Homicide has been requested.
For DB other than Homicides:
- Ensure CSA requested on Suicides, OD, other NON-NATURAL
- Ensure Coroner requested for Natural Deaths
- Ensure ICR completed
- Confer with Homicide over DB report.
421:
Who is immediately contacted on high profile deaths (media interest, Child deaths related to physical violence, LVMPD employee or family member)?
Homicide LT
421:
T/F, Notifications to Homicide must be made for suicides, homicides and overdoses?
False, no notification for suicides, overdoses and non suspicious deaths.
421:
Deputy Coroner is responsible for investigating all deaths that are not?
Homicide
In Custody
Suspicious
421:
The Decedents wedding ring will be the responsibility of _______________ and will be _______________?
Deputy Coroner or PA
Impounded.
421:
On the scene of a suicide by a gunshot wound, three firearms are located, one of which is in the decedents left hand, the other two are located on the kitchen table 30 ft. away. The distraught sister of the decedent is concerned about the children in the house getting ahold of the guns, how is this situation resolved?
- CSA impounds the firearm used in suicide
- (If the guns were owned by the decedent the Coroner is responsible for them)
* *** However LVMPD does have the authority to impound them for safekeeping and articulate the need in the property report.
421:
A coroner locates $5,000 in cash in the middle compartment of a decedent’s vehicle. The vehicle is parked in the driveway, unlocked, windows down. He provides it to your Patrol Officer to impound and requests that you tow the car. What do you advise your Officer?
Coroner is responsible for all valuables inside of a vehicle and securing the vehicle. As the vehicle is not a hazard on a public roadway, per policy you are not required to tow the vehicle.
421:
On dead body calls explain how and why residences are secured.
- If LVMPD did NOT damage the structure the coroner is responsible for securing, we MAY stay until secured but are not required.
- If LVMPD damaged the structure we are responsible for notifying the on call securing company AND staying at the scene until secured.
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T/F, Supervisors are only required to arrive on child deaths that are suspicious in nature?
False, all child deaths
421:
If possible signs of abuse/neglect appear on a child death, the responding patrol officer will?
Deny the family access to the child until investigators arrive and determine if access will be allowed.
421:
If questions exist on the criteria for allowing parents to have contact with a child who has died, the _____________ should be contacted?
Abuse neglect LT
421:
On child deaths, patrol supervisors are required to?
Ensure CSA has been requested
Ensure homicide and AN has been requested
421:
T/F a suicide happening in close proximity to LVMPD Officers, is considered an in-custody death?
True
