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Role Of Responding Officer In Criminal Investigation

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The role of crime scene investigator is the most challenging and complicated, albeit the roles of the criminalist and responding officers cannot be taken for granted. The investigator here is like a supervisor – s/he supervises the investigation, or how each part of the evidence connects with the other parts, and in collaboration with the responding officers and criminalist try to re-enact the scene. It appears at first glance that the victims were raped before they were killed; the scenes were blood stained or turned into a mess, and then the suspects turned away, realizing what they had done, or content of what had just occurred. The investigators must identify the significance of every aspect of evidence found in the scene, i.e. they have …show more content…

The responding officers were the first on the crime scene. In any crime scene investigation, responding officers are the first to witness what has just occurred, and their role is the most dangerous because it could happen that the criminal or criminals are still in the crime scene. Responding officers have to be on alert, anytime they will be at gunpoint, or they will receive the suspects’ bullets. One of the most important things they must do is to preserve the evidence – allow the scene to be in a state where they first arrived and ensure no one would touch anything. They have to establish the boundaries of the crime scene, present it to the investigator and the criminalist the way they arrived and saw it first, and locations where crime-related activities may have occurred, including pathways/entries/exits used in relation to those activities. It is their responsibility to allow the crime scene to be a strong evidence to support the filing of several cases in …show more content…

CSI show has had an effect on the viewers. Criminals also watch this programme which can obtain ideas on how to cover up their tracks in crime scenes. Currently, investigators examine crime scenes more intricately for new kind of evidence, which is creating problems with tracking and storing evidence, so that even as the criminals leave few traces of themselves behind, a backlog of cold-case evidence is building up. Furthermore, CSI not only provides viewers with entertainment but also be leading them to have certain expectations about criminal cases and the administration of justice. CSI's are shown doing the work that about four different people do in real life, and that this has resulted in many university students coming into his criminal justice classes to train for jobs that don't actually exist. On the other hand, CSI influences the younger audience to seek a criminal justice career. However, CSI programmes are shown doing the work that about four different people do in real life, and that this has resulted in many university students coming into his criminal justice classes to train for jobs that don't actually

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