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10-116 - Officer-Involved Shootings
10-117.01 - Surveillance Video Collection and Forensic Video

10-117 - Evidence Processing

  • Summary: Guidelines for collecting, preserving, and analyzing evidence to maintain its admissibility in court.
  • Effective Date: 05-03-2013
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Policy

All evidence that is collected by MPD personnel shall be property inventoried per MPD Policy and Procedure Manual, Section 10-400 Property and Evidence, prior to submitting any requests for forensic analysis.

All evidence shall be processed by the MPD Crime Lab if the requested service is a discipline that the MPD Crime Lab is equipped and trained to provide. No evidence shall be taken to any outside agency for analysis without the prior written approval of the MPD Crime Lab Commander or his/her designee.

Evidence to be processed by the MPD Crime Lab shall be submitted to the MPD Crime Lab using the Investigator’s Request for Service Form (MP-9010). All work requests will be screened and logged by the Crime Lab Unit.

If investigators have evidence that the MPD Crime Lab does not have the capability to process (i.e. DNA, trace evidence, questioned documents), but can be processed by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) Forensic Laboratory, the requesting investigator shall bring the evidence to the BCA to be analyzed.

 

Definitions

Refer to the Commonly Used Terms page for general definitions.

  • Investigators: All persons from the MPD Homicide unit and Internal Affairs unit who are conducting an investigation of the Critical Incident, unless other Criminal Investigating and Administrative Investigating Entities have been designated by the Chief of Police or their designee.
10-116 - Officer-Involved Shootings
10-117.01 - Surveillance Video Collection and Forensic Video

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