Scene of crime officer

Training of laboratory staff, police, and scene-of-crime officers—>... 

The section also provided a 24-hour, 7-day/week call out service to the security forces. Forensic staff members are available to attend scenes of crime which are large, controversial, or too difficult for the police or civilian scenes of crime officers to deal with. There were aspects of scenes of crime examination that most other laboratories do not experience the possibility of booby traps or sniper attack the scenes were often in hostile areas, so that the time to examine a scene was sometimes very limited (before a riot erupted or a sniper got organized) and many scenes extended over a large area, involved a large number of people and exhibits, and were of a controversial nature. 

Recovery of evidence. Consider a scenario in which a piece of evidence could prove vital to the case if found at the scene of a murder. The scene of crime officer is not fully trained and fails to recognise its... 

Suppose that a suspect in a theft investigation is a researcher in a biology laboratory. The suspect frequently works with formaldehyde, CH20. Police officers find traces of a substance at the crime scene, and send samples to the Centre for Forensic Science. The forensic analysts find that the substance contains a compound that has an empirical formula of CH20. Will this evidence help to convict the suspect Not necessarily. 

Forensic science is the application of scientific principles to the analysis of numerous types of evidence, most commonly evidence collected at a crime scene. Crime scene investigators, usually police officers, collect evidence at the crime scene and submit it to a crime laboratory for analysis by forensic scientists. 

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