2.4 Importance of Scene of Crime (SOC) Examination and Steps Involved

The SOC — the crime's theatre: the evidence's richest source (the Locard's principle's home). Thesteps (the exam's list):1. The securing — the scene's protection (the cordon, the access log — the contamination's prevention).2. The preliminary survey — the scene's overview (the safety, the scope).3. The documentation — the photography (the overall-midrange-close), the sketching (the measurements), the videography, the notes.4. The systematic search — the patterns (the grid, the lane, the spiral — the thoroughness's methods).5. The collection-and-packaging — the traces' proper taking (the wet-and-biological separate; the standard-and-control samples).6. The reconstruction — the evidence's narrative (the event's sequence).7. The scene's release — the completion's formality.