7-322 - Forgeries

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7-321.01 - Food or Product Tampering
7-323 - Gunshot/Shots Fired

7-322 - Forgeries

  • Summary: Details procedures for handling cases involving forged documents or fraudulent financial instruments.
  • Effective Date: 08-14-2007
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Policy

Forgery is the making or altering of a document, writing or object with intent to defraud. The victim of forgery is a person or business that suffers a loss. An Offense/Incident Report shall be completed in all suspected forgery cases. 

Officers shall attempt to recover the original forged instrument or a photocopy if the original is not available, taking care to preserve all evidence in the condition in which it was received. All recovered evidence shall be inventoried at the Property and Evidence unit, not at precincts.

 

Definitions

Refer to the Commonly Used Terms page for general definitions.

7-321.01 - Food or Product Tampering
7-323 - Gunshot/Shots Fired

Document History:

Title Effective Date Revision Type Download
7-322 - Forgeries 08-14-2007 download PDF

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