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Jun-27-2006 23:46

How does it work? Thus far I know that Step 1 is ... belong to an agency - preferably a really great one with great people ... yep, check.

Step 2 ... what do you do to submit evidence? In what circumstances would you want to do this?

Side Step ... when would you analyse evidence yourself? Do your contacts have any bearing on this, or is it purely to do with your own skills?

Jun-28-2006 01:06

AdSide Step: Usually, you analyse the evidence yourself when you examine the crime scene where, provided you have the skills, you'll be able to tell whether a hair is straight or curly, a note is written by a right- or lefthanded person an so on.

However, sometimes, even when wearing a maxed-up set of smarts items to the crime scene (smart gear inproves the chance of success with the advanced skills mentioned above), you can still have a piece of physical evidence that you haven't gotten the extra information on (i.e. curly/straight, right/left etc.) and that's when the crime lab can be quite useful because...

Ad2: you can leave the case in your case files, and a member of your agency can then analyse the unspecified piece of evidence for you in the crime lab. NB! The person who does the analysing has to have the skill to do it (i.e. Advanced Hair for hair, Advanced Thread for threads, Handwriting for notes, an Footprint for shoes) :)

Jun-28-2006 01:44

The other thing about the crime lab is that you can't analyze your own evidence and you can only analyze one piece of evidence per day. So, you analyze someone else's and another detective in your agency will analyze yours. :)