As
a role of the First Attending Officer at a crime scene, it is their
responsibility to make sure that the scene is cordoned off. The crime scene in
cornered off using crime scene tap, upon the tape it will state ‘Crime Scene –
Do not enter’ or ‘Police line do not cross’ depending on the type of scene they
are securing. This is to ensure that the no contamination from the public,
media or anyone who is unauthorised to be at the scene enters. Therefore it is
important to cordon off the scene so that there is only one point of entry to
the scene to make sure that no one enters or leaves the scene without recording
it. When cordoning off the scene, the officer doing so much ensure that they
are cordoning off a wide area surrounding the crime scene to make sure that no
evidence is over looked.
To
prevent unauthorised personnel from entering the crime scene and officer will
stand at the entrance to the crime scene with an entry log form. The officer in
charge of the entry log will ask for specific information of the individual
entering the crime scene as long as authorisation is given to let the
individual in. A record is kept off all the individuals that enter and exit the
crime scene in case any of the individuals need to be contacted regarding the
investigation.
In
order to protect the crime scene from the weather conditions, in some cases a
tent will be placed above the crime scene, this is to ensure that the whole area
surrounding the crime scene is covered, thus protecting the evidence. Also this
will limit the media and press from capturing any footage of the crime scene or
any neighbours or the public from overlooking.
The
O.J. Simpson Case
At
the crime scene murder investigation, of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman,
Robert Riske was the First Attending Officer at the scene; therefore it should
have been his responsibility to corner of the crime scene. However, when Riske and
Fuhrman entered Nicole Brown’s condo, to use her phone to call for back up, Sargent
Martin Coon, and Officers Edward McGowan and Richard Walker arrived at the
scene within minutes. It was Coon, McGowan and Walker who secured the scene by
using crime scene tape. Yet they only cornered off the crime scene at the gate
which led to the footpath to the entrance of Nicole Brown’s condo. As the whole
area of the crime scene was not secured, this meant that potentially crucial evidence
was missed and therefore compromised by contamination or lost.
They first responding officer did not look for any victim or look out for suspects. Second the first responding officer contaminated the scene and phone. The only secured a small part of the scene, instead of the whole entire home/area.
ReplyDeletethey should bring in a new officer
DeleteThe first responding officer didn't secure the scene which was his responsible the other officer shouldn't be the one to secure it because they wasn't the first to arrive at the scene.They also didn't secure the entire area they only secure a small potion, which mean that evidences can still be outside the scene that is secure and the evidence might get contaminated.
ReplyDeleteThe first officer didn't secure the scene and didn't search it either.
ReplyDeletefirst officer was respomsible for it but since he missed his collegues should have reminded him to do it properly nnext and properly do it them selfs to
ReplyDeleteThe first officer did not look for any evidence there was no suspect found. The first officer had to secure the area not the second officer because they were the first to arrive.They need to check everything they only checked the small area not the entire house or the outside.
ReplyDeletehe should have secured the crime scene but failed to do so
ReplyDeleteThe should have blocked off the crime scene more than just one strip of police tape.
ReplyDeleteThe first officer didn't secure the crime scene when he first got there
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