First Inquiry, Evidence and Police Handover
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After a theft, an assault or a serious accident, you are often the first person in charge. What you do in the first hour decides whether the facts can be found later. Good notes, protected evidence and a clean handover help the police and protect your guards. Pressure, guesswork and handling evidence carelessly can ruin a case, and can put you and your agency in trouble.
Focus: collect facts, protect evidence, and hand everything to the police. Investigating crimes is the police's job. Guards and supervisors never interrogate anyone.
Learning objectives
- Explain what a supervisor's first inquiry is, and where it stops.
- Take first accounts from witnesses in their own words, without leading them.
- Protect physical items and keep a chain of custody.
- Explain why logs and registers can become evidence, and why they must never be changed.
- Read an access-card log correctly.
- Export camera footage so it can be used later.
- Hand over to the police properly, and prepare to be a witness.
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