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Detectives and Collecting Evidence
A detective can be referred to as an investigator, because that is exactly what a detective does. There is no requirement that a detective has to be a police officer, it can be anyone from a law enforcement agency, or one hired in a private investigation company. It is basically the nature of the job which makes them a detective. Their main job is to investigate, find things out and solve a case by collecting relevant information, by digging out evidence and by interacting with the informants and witnesses. They collect the oral and physical evidence in order to solve a mystery or a case. They search records, or you might say they take all possible measures to solve a case. The detective’s job allows them to arrest the criminals, by solving the mystery of a case and then it can further lead to a conviction of the guilty in court.
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Collecting Evidence; In most cases it is the Police detective who will be responsible for investigating a crime scene. Their first objective is to interview any detained people or victims and carefully piece together an outline from which the forensic team can focus their search.
Collecting evidence has to be accurate enough so that a scene can be reconstructed, from which the biological, physical and material can easily be connected to the people involved in the crime. Starting with physical items such as mobile phones, guns, computers, get away cars etc, to help with understanding the scenario, allowing the detective to piece together the complex jigsaw puzzle of what happened. Biological evidence such as blood, body fluids hair and skin tissue – provides important DNA material that can identify a specific individual. Much of this work occurs in the laboratory after it has been collected from the scene. So what is DNA?
Deoxyribonucleic Acid; a living cell that carries genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all known organisms and many viruses.
“A DNA profile is a list of numbers that indicate how many repeat units are in each copy of 20 marker regions located throughout the genome. Here’s how that profile is generated” (sources Celia Henry Arnaud). Next is the ‘latent’ evidence, this is the residues left behind such as footprints, fingerprints and any other print that connects a human being to the crime scene. After that the scene goes down to the microscopic level collecting data like fibres, soil particles or vegetation to retrace the steps of before and after an action has taken place i.e. where the persons have come from, or can be followed. The Crime scene has to be rapidly assessed at all levels, as the Detective is working against the clock.
Good Cop Bad Cop
Here are some snippets of some enforcement issues that went awray.
The first is cringingly embarrassing. When a Mayor in california was posing for a group photo, after the photo opportunity had finished, one of the members stepped forward with a microphone in his hand and said, “You probably don’t remember me, but you are the police officer who falsely arrested me four years ago.” continuing, the group member said, “You lied on the police report, and i believe you are a rogue police officer and you don’t deserve to be here.”
Another case came to the attention of the county Authorities when dismissed policemen avenged the community. Keeping his uniform and making a counterfeit badge, he walked into a neighbouring county officers’ car park, stole a car then drove to a quiet side road. When a women driver was travelling on her own he shot at the tyres, then murdered the unfortunately driver. in fact as many as 5 women were killed before the rogue was tracked down.
‘Hot cop’ fell from grace after heroically rescuing members of the public trapped in a hurricane’s destructive wake, when he was later caught taking a selfie making rude remarks and personal jokes about people.
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