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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Law, Public Safety, & Security
occupation category
Detectives and Criminal Investigators
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Blocks or rope off scene and check perimeter to ensure that entire scene is secured
- Establishes boundaries of the scene(s), starting at the focal point and extending outward to include: where the crime occurred
- Searches for and collect evidence, such as fingerprints, using investigative equipment
- Analyzes completed police reports to determine what additional information and investigative work is needed
- Responds to disorderly conduct
- Ensures that witnesses to the incident are identified and separated (e.g., obtain valid ID)
- Prepares legal documents such as arrest and search warrants
- Employs situational tactics such as tactical retreats
- Follows departmental policy and legal issues regarding the use of race and ethnicity to make decisions
- Makes initial observations (look, listen, smell) to assess the scene and ensure officer safety before proceeding
- Participates or assists in raids and arrests
- Examines records and governmental agency files to find identifying data about suspects
- Disposes of evidence in a timely and safe manner and document the disposal of evidence
- Establishes a crime scene debriefing team, which includes the investigator(s) in charge of the crime scene, other investigators and evidence collection personnel (e.g., photographers, evidence technicians, latent print personnel, specialized personnel, and initial responding officer(s) if still present).
- Performs undercover assignments and maintain surveillance, including monitoring authorized wiretaps
- Follows rules of search and seizure
- Articulates investigation and discovery plans
- Follows recommended presentation practices during testimony
- Identifies permissible charges and charge elements
- Documents any statements/comments made by victims, suspects, or witnesses at the scene.
- Prepares and serve search and arrest warrants
- Positions a vehicle during emergency situations
- Examines records to locate links in chains of evidence or information
- Obtains and verifies evidence by interviewing and observing suspects and witnesses or by analyzing records
- Assesses the victim(s) for signs of life and medical needs and provides immediate medical attention
- Provides information to lab personnel concerning the source of an item of evidence and tests to be performed
- Memorializes case activity in an accurate, timely, and complete manner
- Pursues and engages roadblocks, pursues across jurisdictions, and terminates pursuits due to safety concerns
- Notes or logs dispatch information (e.g., address/location, time, date, type of call, parties involved)
- Maintains surveillance of establishments to obtain identifying information on suspects
- Formulates plans for action based on the totality of factual information
- Prevents unauthorized entry
- Provides fair and equitable treatment based on constitutional protections
- Communicates obligations of arrest authority
- Issues related to warrant, warrantless and improper searches
- Organizes relevant information and prepares a case
- Gathers information that needs to be included in document
- Sets up physical barriers (e.g., ropes, cones, crime scene barrier tape, available vehicles, personnel, other equipment) or uses existing boundaries (e.g., doors, walls, gates)
- Secures deceased body and obtain evidence from it, preventing bystanders from tampering with it prior to medical examiner's arrival
- Obtains facts or statements from complainants, witnesses, and accused persons and record interviews, using recording device
- Applies supervision and sentencing recommendations on the community as well as the supervisee
- Drafts and reviews document
- Maintains tactical awareness during routine activities
- Identifies, establishes, protects, and secures potential points and paths of exit and entry of suspects and witnesses
- Notes facts and circumstances specific to the situation
- Knows, recalls, and states criminal law and procedure
- Identifies legal issues related to community notifications of sexual predators and other criminal groups
- Preserves, processes, and analyzes items of evidence obtained from crime scenes and suspects, placing them in proper containers and destroying evidence no longer needed
- Assesses forensic needs and call forensic specialists to the scene for expertise and/or equipment.
- Treats the location as a crime scene until assessed and determined to be otherwise.
- Uses restraints, including handcuffs and plastic cuffs
- Preserves and obtains electronically stored information
- Organizes scene search, assigning specific tasks and areas of search to individual officers and obtaining adequate lighting as necessary
- Ensures that there is no immediate threat to other responders — scan area for sights, sounds, and smells that may present danger to personnel (e.g., hazardous materials such as gasoline, natural gas
- Responds in a trauma informed manner to victims of sexual assault and domestic violence
- Participates in briefings and conferences with police and law enforcement agencies
- Follows procedures to secure scenes
- Prepares reports that detail investigation findings
- Applies legal powers for criminal investigation
- Takes witness, victim, and accused-persons statements
- Persists in locating relevant information until a sufficient amount is available to permit answering question or addressing the problem fully
- Manages a witness interview as needed
- Testifies before grand juries concerning criminal activity investigations
- Takes custody of violent or armed persons
- Uses personal protective equipment (PPE) to prevent contamination of personnel and to minimize scene contamination
- Evaluates safety issues that may affect all personnel entering the scene(s) (e.g., bloodborne pathogens , hazards
- Applies knowledge of municipal ordinances
- Retains and prepares experts and discovers expert opinions
- Documents the original location of the victim or objects that you observe being moved
- Avoids contaminating the scene by using the established path of entry
- Conducts a 360-degree survey of the scene
- Implements departmental, state, and local laws regarding police misconduct
- Notes, marks, and photographs location of objects found, such as footprints, tire tracks, bullets and bloodstains, and take measurements of the scene
- Converses with the first responder(s) regarding observations/ activities
- Protects individual rights of in-custody persons (e.g., duty of care may exist to provide or summon medical assistance for subjects)
- Communicates with supervisor about needs related to workload complexity and case quantity
- Evaluates search and seizure issues to determine the necessity of obtaining consent to search and/or obtaining a search warrant.
- Communicates detention and frisk parameters
- Identifies, obtains, and advises as to preserving evidence
- Communicates constitutional individual rights in investigation
- Documents the entry/exit of all people entering and leaving the scene, once boundaries have been established
- Searches persons and scenes during emergencies
- Portrays awareness of persons in vicinity, body positions, etc.
- Guides medical personnel to the victim to minimize contamination/alteration of the crime scene
- Approaches the scene cautiously, scan the entire area to thoroughly assess the scene, and note any possible secondary crime scenes
- Identifies persons most likely to have the needed information
- Utilizes proper procedures for managing victims and fatalities so that all evidence is discovered and preserved and the protocol procedures are followed
