Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for Law Enforcement¶
National Institute of Justice. (2013). Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for Law Enforcement: A Guide for Law Enforcement. U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice.
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Mechanisms¶
- Custody Chain Reconciliation
- … producing accountability that survives scrutiny: a reconstructed chain in which every link is evidenced and every unproven interval is openly owned is exactly what a court, an auditor, or a regulator needs, because the standard it must meet is not "the numbers agree" but "we can show who was responsible throughout."
This sourceDefines chain of custody as a chronological record of every custodian and transfer of an evidentiary item.
- … producing accountability that survives scrutiny: a reconstructed chain in which every link is evidenced and every unproven interval is openly owned is exactly what a court, an auditor, or a regulator needs, because the standard it must meet is not "the numbers agree" but "we can show who was responsible throughout."
- Custody Roster or Stewardship Rotation
- Handoffs are logged with condition — like a chain of custody
This sourceRequires a documented chain of custody that identifies evidence handlers and records when custody events occur.
- Handoffs are logged with condition — like a chain of custody
- Sealed Evidence Package
- The safeguard is to log at the moment of transfer
This sourceRequires the custody log to be updated at the moment of transfer.
- The safeguard is to log at the moment of transfer
- Source-Tracing Table
- It formalizes the discipline of chain of custody — the principle from evidence handling that a claim is only as trustworthy as the unbroken, documented trail from observation to assertion.
This sourceRequires an unbroken, documented chain of custody from evidence collection through transfer and submission so its trustworthiness can be assessed.
- It formalizes the discipline of chain of custody — the principle from evidence handling that a claim is only as trustworthy as the unbroken, documented trail from observation to assertion.
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