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A Race the Rats Cannot Win
Recently, the chief of a large U.S. city police department went before her city council to describe the "deplorable" conditions of her police headquarters building. The facility, built in 1968, was experiencing an infestation of cockroaches, rats, and other physical...
Maintaining Regulatory Compliance: The Role of Inventory Audits in Law Enforcement
Maintaining evidence integrity is necessary for any law enforcement agency for many reasons, one being that it's the law. Along with those federal and state laws come many other regulations, standards, and best practices that agencies must comply with. The sum of...
First Step for a New Chief of Police: Ordering an Evidence Room Audit
Congratulations! You have just been sworn in as a new chief of police. While you will have many opportunities to demonstrate your leadership abilities, ordering an evidence room audit can help set the tone of your administration. It immediately indicates that you...
Ensuring Accountability: Standards and Regulations for Privatized Evidence Storage Providers
Law enforcement agencies are turning to the private sector for solutions to their long-term evidence storage needs. This industry has been around for over 20 years, and many departments take advantage of their services – if they are lucky enough to have one in their...
Unveiling Hidden Issues: How Regular Audits Identify Operational Challenges in Evidence Rooms
While patrol functions, SWAT Teams, and major crime investigations are often in the limelight of a police department's operations, back at the station is a facility and personnel who will probably never be featured on a station tour. However, the role they play in the...
Police Evidence Room Inventories: Demonstrating Accountability Via Audits
While a thorough evidence room audit will examine its operations, systems, and security, in most instances, the first benefit that comes to mind is ensuring the inventory is appropriately maintained and accounted for. It’s what police property and evidence rooms do....
Exploring the Role of the Private Sector in Long-Term Evidence Storage: Advantages and Considerations
Proper evidence management is one of law enforcement's most basic but vital daily tasks. Collection, packaging, preservation, transportation, storage, and retrieval - all while maintaining a documented chain of custody history - must be accomplished in a near-perfect...
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