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  • From: "David Skofstad" <dbs54neigh@earthlink.net>
  • To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] How do you avoid trampling on evidence during aMSAR operation?
  • Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:33:55 -0600

Sounds like the most significant advice is the last sentence:   "Back off. Call it in."
 
David Skofstad
 
"The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory belongs to the Lord."
- Proverbs 21:31
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: 1/26/2012 12:50:40 PM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] How do you avoid trampling on evidence during aMSAR operation?

You look where you are walking, riding, driving, etc.  This applies to all cases.  If you trample the evidence the trackers can’t track, and the CSI people will never let you

search in their area again.

For specific guidance check with authority in your area. General rules:

Airplanes belong to the NTSB and the FAA or the military.  Nothing gets touched, nothing gets moved except living victims without Federal clearance.

Everything gets photographed and documented before being moved or even touched.  This will also apply to common carriers and passenger trains and buses if NTSB is called in.

Boats usually belong to the Coast Guard on navigable waterways, same rules.

Bombs belong to the ATF or FBI depending on who gets there first.

If a large vehicle or craft is involved it is likely that its location will be known before recovery efforts are started. Small or light aircraft and watercraft that do not

carry black boxes will be harder to locate unless the ELB goes off.

 

In the event of a large event it is unlikely that the crime scene will be hidden from view of those documenting the scene.  It is more likely that during a search for a single missing person that evidence will be destroyed by trampling because there will be so little of it to start with. If you have a large area of evidence you must first secure the area and then move toward the center carefully, slowly, watching where you put your bootie covered feet.  You do not want to take a horse into the debris field because

he will be injured by the debris.  Unless you are assigned to evidence recovery you should not be near a crime scene as a search person longer than it takes you to pull back and report your find.

 

Irv Lichtenstein

SE PA SAR

 


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