Exam Questions (2) Flashcards
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What is family?
- parents, partners, siblings, children, guardian, anyone with close relationship with victim
- chosen family
- reflect victim’s culture and lifestyle
Benefits of the appreciation technique
- expectations to achieve
- increase chances of success
- establish sequence of events
- manages risk
- reduces uncertainty
- eliminates duplication
- ensures nothing is overlooked
- effective use of resources
What to include in a prelim witness interview?
- what happened
- where exactly
- when
- who involved
- what witness did
- where witness went
- what witness touched/who touched them
- description of those present
- what others present say/do
- who else was present
Why/when second PM ordered
Directed by coroner if
- pathologist unable to determine cause of death
- suspects lawyer seeks approval to conduct and independent PM
- solicitor general orders PM after application to the high court
Scene guard to record what
- Secure scene
- Record details
- Control movements
- Record movements
- Brief other
- Avoid disturbance
- Protect scene
- Brief replacement
- Respect security
- Demonstrates courtesy
- inform others 
Other approaches in an area canvas
- use of experts
- use of an aide memoir and script
- leaflets
- media, poster campaign, Mail Drop, high profile police presence
Definition of appreciation
- analytical approach with features are identified
- Evidence based process of managing solutions
- Proven method of problem-solving
What is covered in a forensic strategy meeting?
- Delivery to ESR
- Exhibits to prosecutions
- What exams ESR to do?
Initial police responders role
- attending the scene at an early stage
- taking control of the situation
- coordinating tasks
Families are what to an investigation
- family should be respected regardless
- Family should be seen as partners and the investigation
- Liaison with families is a vital function of the investigation
Categories examining lifestyle of victim
- lifestyle enquiries e.g history of violence
The more information obtained, the better opportunity analysts will have to assist the investigation
People data
- Family/friends/colleagues
- active information/travel movements/customers/suppliers/cultural considerations
Passive data
- NIA
- medical history
- metal health records
- hsmu
- phone records
- vehicle details
1S file requirements
- statement of formal identification
- pol 47
- deceased person certificate
- deceased person identification
Information obtained from skeletal remains
Pathologist with forensic anthropologist
- whether remains are actually bones
- Whether the bones are human
- Age, gender, height, and race of person
what needs to be considered what exhibits are going to be produced
OC case is responsible for managing exhibits
Maintain integrity, security and continuity of exhibits from when they are seized until presented.
Ensuring integrity and admissibility
- Ensure evidential value is understood
- further lines of enquiry are identified
- investigative opportunities from each exhibit realised
Procedures and protective material when moving body from scene
- Record body position
- Consider marking the position
- Record all details of the position
- consider health risks when handling the body
- Cover hands feet and head with paper bags and secure
- Ensure clothing is not contaminated with foreign objects
- Wrap the body in a plastic sheet and place in body bag
- Search underneath the body
- Retain all sheets bags in material as exhibits
- OC investigation to approve removal
- ensure body bag is sterile 
Briefing from officer initially in charge
- what has occurred
- What action has been taken?
- What has been done?
- What needs to be done?
Information to obtain from informant
- ID and location of suspect
- What they know
- Precise detail details of the scene
-Circumstances leading to discovery - ID of victim
- Anyone else there
- Full details
- Demeanour
- Relationship to victim or suspect
- Actions of the complainant
- hazards or safety issues 
When there is a delay in police attendance
Evidence may be lost or contaminated to reduce the risk:
- Return to scene and guard
- Not to enter obvious boundaries of scene
- Not to touch or move anything
- Prevent others from entering or touching the scene
- Await police arrival and ID themselves to police
On arrival note what informant says, demeanour, clothing
When several witnesses
- contain, isolate and seek witnesses cooperation
- Prioritise interviews by investigative importance
- Conduct scoping interviews
- Photograph witnesses/injuries
- consider if witnesses are scenes 
Four actions to assist police when obtaining key materials from witnesses at scene
Consider warrantless search powers
Recover evidence
- dna swaps of the witness the suspect has touched
- Swabs of blood present
- Swabs of relevant stains
- Forensic medical exam e.g. fingernail scraping hair combing
- Seizure of clothing and footwear
- seizure of any items of property touched by the suspect 
Four objectives a FLO must establish before meeting family
- Perimeter of information to be shared/held back from family
- Familiarise themselves with the inquiry
- familiarise with family dynamics, cultural and lifestyle considerations, religious beliefs, communication require requirements
- Familiarise with information and intelligence which could impact liaison role
- Establish what contact the family has had with police since the death
- Establish what information has been given to the family
- establish what information is already in the public domain 
Three matters before exhibit is accepted into safe exhibit storage
OC canvas report to OC must contain
- summary of all actions taken
- Any significant findings?
- action taken, which was outside the original phase strategy 
Three states of a victim
- Alive and uninjured.
No injuries, no issues or complications - Alive but injured.
Call ambulance. Have to be moved not original body position. Record any previous movements ambulance destination to be recorded detective should accompany if possible. - Shows no sign of life.
Should not be moved any more than necessary to establish victim as alive
