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6FS001 Forensic Science for Policing

ASSIGNMENT 1 CASE STUDY ANALYSIS

Member of Staff Responsible: Dr K. Farr

Assignment Task: Analyse a crime scenario from the scene management and evidence gathering perspective, presenting the results in the form of a structured report.

e-Submission date: Friday 9th December 2016

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:

Be able to discuss the following with specific reference to the scenario described below:
•    The crimes committed and their categories;
•    The number and location of crime scenes;
•    Overall case management, including scene preservation
•    The range of specialist personnel that may be called to the scene
•    The type and nature of evidence that could be found at each of the scenes
•    Evidence that might need to be sought at or outside the crime scenes
•    For each piece of evidence, the correct recovery method
•    Issues of continuity and integrity

You need to be able to show that you can:
(i)    Describe the actions of the following in the management of the crime scenario:
–    First officer attending
–    Senior investigating officer
–    Crime Scene investigator
(ii)    Outline, giving reasons, any other specialist personnel that may need to attend the scene.
(iii)    Give an account of all recording and documentation of the crime scene prior to and during the removal of items of evidence.
(iv)    For the described scenario, identify possible key evidence items and for each evidence type, outline the correct procedure for packaging of that item.

Requirements for first class grade (over 70%):
The crime scene management is thorough with all necessary factors taken into account. The use of specialist personnel is as necessary. The crime scene has been thoroughly recorded using appropriate techniques. The key evidence items have been identified, properly located recorded and packaged. There is no evidence of gathering items of little evidential value.

Requirements for a minimum pass (40%):
There is some attempt at crime scene management. Some relevant personnel have been called to the scene but this is incomplete and some unnecessary personnel have been called. There has been an attempt to record the crime scene although some methods are absent or some techniques are described vaguely or inappropriate techniques have been used. Some key evidence items have been identified, properly located, recorded and packaged. There is some evidence of gathering items of little evidential value.

The following information is a summary of the events that took place during an alleged criminal act.

PERSONA.    Victim:    Michaela Olivia CAINE. 74 years. Born 01.04.1942. Retired. Resident at 23 Railway Cuttings, Wolhampton.
Suspect:    Peter PIPER. 29 years. Born 20.9.1987.
Unemployed. Resident at Flat 6, Boulton House,
Bordesley Hill.
Witnesses:    John BITTER 57 years. Born 1.2.1959. Post Office Counter Worker. Resident at 14 The Mews, Wolhampton.
Henrietta WILSON, 32 years. Born 6.12.83 Resident at 15 Railway Cuttings, Wolhampton.
Colin Brian CAINE 76 years. Born 15.5.1940. Retired. Resident at 23 Railway Cuttings, Wolhampton.
Police Constable 3965 Peter Ivan ROBERTS.
Police Constable 4567 Satbhinder KAUR.
Police Constable 7212 Mark NEILSON

Statements from the abovenamed witnesses are in the attached appendices.

BRIEFING NOTES.

CAINE is retired and on Friday 9th September 2016 left home to collect her pension from Wolhampton Post Office. The weather was bright and sunny although it had been raining for the last few days. She was seen leaving home by her husband at 09:45 hours. She walked from Railway Cuttings to the Post Office via an alleyway, which leads to entrance gates to Central Park. She crossed the park to gates on the far side which lead out to a small street where the Post Office is situated.
The alleyway is paved and has grass verges on either side with wooden fences lining the sides.

CAINE arrived at the Post Office at 10:04, where she queued for 7 minutes before obtaining £119.30 from her account, given to her by the cashier BITTER. CAINE left the Post Office shortly after 10.19 and made her way home across the park.
CAINE left the park and entered the alleyway. Almost immediately WILSON, seated on a bench in the park and checking her phone, heard shouting coming from the alleyway and observed a man running out of the alleyway, into the park, carrying an unidentified package. WILSON states that the time was just after 10.30 as she had just heard the park clock chime before hearing the shouts.

WILSON entered the alleyway and saw CAINE lying apparently unconscious with clothing in disarray and blood seeping from wounds to head and abdomen. WILSON checked for a pulse and used her phone to contact the emergency services at 10:45.

Police (ROBERTS) and ambulance crew (Paramedics FINDLAY & WATSON) arrived together at 10:58. The paramedics checked CAINE for vital signs and took her to the Accident and Emergency Unit of Wolhampton General hospital.

ROBERTS took details from WILSON at 11:04. Details of the suspect were circulated and at 11:18 NEILSON and KAUR spotted a person answering the description of the suspect at the other end of Central Park. A chase on foot ensued and the suspect attempted to evade the officers by jumping from a footbridge onto a path in a small ravine in the centre of the Park. The suspect fell and was found semi-conscious, requiring hospital treatment. KAUR called for an ambulance and the suspect, identified as PIPER from personal details held in his wallet, was taken to the Accident and Emergency Unit of Wolhampton Central Hospital, accompanied by PC Neilson.

Appendices

The following pages contain appendices to the examination. You will find statements from the serving police officers attending the incident (PC Peter Roberts), and at the Park (PC Satbhinder Kaur) as well as a witness statement from Ms Henrietta Wilson and the Post Office worker, Mr John Bitter.

Forensic Science Department
Witness Statement

(CJ Act 1967, s.9 MC Act 1980, ss.5A (3)(A) and 5B MC Rules 1981, r70)

Statement of John Bitter

Age if under 18 over 18 (if over 18 insert ‘over 18’) Occupation Post Office Worker

This statement (consisting of 1 page/s each signed by me) is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make it knowing that if it is tendered in evidence, I shall be liable to prosecution if I have wilfully stated in it anything, which I know to be false or do not believe to be true.

Dated 9th Day of September 2016

Signature

I am a full-time counter worker at the Post Office in Keg Street, Wolhampton. I reside at 14 The Mews, Wolhampton with my wife.
On Friday the 9th of September 2016 I opened the counter at 09:00h and started serving. At 10:00h approximately I served Mrs Michaela CAINE. Mrs CAINE was wearing her dark blue coat and carrying a brown leather handbag. I know Mrs CAINE well as she regularly transacts financial business here.
On this day, Mrs CAINE withdrew her weekly pension (£119.30) from her Post Office account, most of it in £20 and £10 notes. I counted it out for her and she placed the money inside a plastic glasses case, before putting this into her handbag, as she normally does, before leaving the premises at about 10.20 hrs. The recorded time for printing out the withdrawal slip was 10.14.

Signature Signature Witnessed By______________

Forensic Science Department
Witness Statement

(CJ Act 1967, s.9 MC Act 1980, ss.5A (3)(A) and 5B MC Rules 1981, r70)

Statement of Henrietta Wilson

Age if under 18 over 18 (if over 18 insert ‘over 18’) Occupation: Waitress

This statement (consisting of 2 pages each signed by me) is true to he best of my knowledge and belief and I make it knowing that if it is tendered in evidence, I shall be liable to prosecution if I have wilfully stated in it anything, which I know to be false or do not believe to be true.

Dated 9th Day of September 2016
Signature

My name is Henrietta WILSON, born 6.12.83 and currently resident at 15 Railway Cuttings, Wolhampton. I am presently occupied as a waitress at the Happy Eater Diner in Keg Street, Wolhampton.
I left my home at 09:30 today. As I do not begin work until 11.00h and as the weather was sunny, I decided to spend some time at leisure in Central Park, Wolhampton. I arrived at Central Park, Wolhampton at around 10.00h and found a bench free near the alleyway leading to Railway Cuttings.
At 10:32 approximately, as it was a couple of minutes after the half hour chimes on the park clock, I noticed an elderly lady, whom I know to be Michaela CAINE, wearing a navy blue coat and carrying a brown leather handbag, walk along the path through the park and enter the alleyway.
Very soon afterwards I heard shouting of two people in the alleyway, which lasted for about 15 to 20 seconds. A young man emerged from the alleyway shortly afterwards, running through the gates into the park. He was in his mid-twenties, of average height with long brown hair in dreadlocks under a brown knitted hat. He was wearing a brown home knit jumper, combat trousers and green ‘converse’ plimsolls. My view of this man was clear and unobstructed and I would be able to recognise him again.
He was clasping something to his chest. He ran across the grass and disappeared into the bushes and I lost sight of him.

Signature Signature Witnessed by
Witness Statement

Continuation of Statement/Interview of Henrietta Wilson

I was suspicious of the circumstances of the past few minutes and at about 10:40 I entered the alleyway and noticed Mrs CAINE lying on the ground. She was unconscious having sustained two wounds: one to the head and the other to the abdomen. The wound to the head appeared to be a blow from a fist and the other appeared to be the result of a stab wound. I checked her wrist for a pulse. I found a pulse and at 10:45 dialled for the emergency services for ambulance and police to attend.
I waited for the police who arrived with an ambulance crew just before 11.00h. The ambulance crew checked for vital signs before removing Mrs CAINE from the scene to the waiting ambulance. I then described the person leaving the alleyway to PC ROBERTS before making my way to work.
Later that day, I went to Wolhampton Central Police Station where I was show a series of photographs by PC ROBERTS. From those photographs I identified a man who I now know to be Peter PIPER as definitely being the person I saw leave the alleyway on the day of the incident.

Signature
Witness statement Signature Witnessed By___ __
Forensic Science Department
Witness Statement

(CJ Act 1967, s.9 MC Act 1980, ss.5A (3)(A) and 5B MC Rules 1981, r70)

Statement of Satbhinder Kaur

Age if under 18 over 18 (if over 18 insert ‘over 18’) Occupation: Police Officer

Dated 9th Day of September 2016

Signature

I am Police Constable 4567 with the Wulfruna Police Force attached to attached to mobile patrol duty and stationed at Wolhampton City Police Station, Sainsbury Street, Wolhampton.
At 11.08 hrs on Friday the 9th September 2016, I was on mobile patrol duty with PC Mark NEILSON (7212) in the Western Traffic area. Weather conditions at this time were dry. As the result of a radio message received I proceeded to the Central Park area of Wolhampton to maintain search for suspect who was described as a young Caucasian male in his mid-twenties, around 1.78m in height with long brown hair in dreadlocks wearing a brown knitted hat, a brown home knit jumper, combat trousers and green ‘converse’ plimsolls.
At 11.18 as we approached the northerly entrance of the park a man answering a description of the suspect, wearing a brown knitted hat, a black “Star Wars” T-shirt, combat trousers and green ‘converse’ plimsolls, was spotted just inside the gates. As our car approached, the man turned and ran towards the middle of the park.
The car was parked and pursuit was made on foot. During the chase the suspect entered onto a footbridge over the ravine that runs through the park and was trapped between myself and PC NEILSON who had entered the bridge from the opposite end. The suspect was warned to remain in his present position and in response to that he climbed the protective railings at the side of the bridge and jumped into the ravine below. The suspect fell badly and when I reached him he was not speaking coherently. At 11:27 I used the radio to request ambulance assistance to the scene.
A preliminary search of the suspect’s pockets for identification revealed the presence of a relatively large sum of money mostly in £10 and £20 denominations, coins, wallet, mobile phone and house keys. I would estimate there was about £150 in his possession but I did not count it. The money and other items were placed in a sealed envelope and labelled as Ref. No. SK/1 and kept in my possession.
At 11:44 the ambulance personnel arrived and removed the suspect on a stretcher. PC NEILSON accompanied the suspect to the Wolhampton General Hospital.

Signature Signature Witnessed By

Forensic Science Department
Witness Statement

(CJ Act 1967, s.9 MC Act 1980, ss.5A (3)(A) and 5B MC Rules 1981, r70)

Statement of Peter Ivan Roberts

Age if under 18 over 18 (if over 18 insert ‘over 18’) Occupation Police Officer

This statement (consisting of 2 pages each signed by me) is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make it knowing that if it is tendered in evidence, I shall be liable to prosecution if I have wilfully stated in it anything, which I know to be false or do not believe to be true.

Dated 9th Day of September 2016

Signature

I am Police Constable 3965 with the Wulfruna Police Force attached to beat duty and stationed at Wolhampton City Police Station, Sainsbury Street, Wolhampton.
My beat duty includes the area on Keg Street, Wolhampton and the Central Park area.
On 10:53 on Friday 9th September 2016 I was on my beat when I received a radio communication to attend a possible incident in the alleyway at the back of Central Park that links the park to Railway Cuttings, reported by a witness Ms Henrietta WILSON.
I proceeded to the location and found Ms WILSON attending an elderly person, whom I now know to be Mrs Michaela CAINE, who I was lying prone on the ground with blood emanating from two wounds, one to the abdomen and one to the head. I was just about to check the body for vital signs when an ambulance arrived. The paramedical personnel, Mr JAMES and Ms HANCOCK, are known to me and I let them deal with Mrs CAINE, whom they removed after about five minutes.
I then approached the person who made initial contact with the emergency services, Ms WILSON, to elicit information about the circumstances surrounding Mrs CAINE’S injuries. Upon her advice I issued a call to all personnel in the vicinity of Central Park to be on the lookout for a person answering the description of ‘a young Caucasian male in his mid-twenties, around 1.78m in height with long brown hair in dreadlocks wearing a brown knitted hat, a brown home knit jumper, combat trousers and green ‘converse’ plimsolls’.
Later on Friday, at the identification suite at Wolhampton Central Police Station, I showed a series of photographs to Ms Henrietta WILSON. From these photographs Ms WILSON identified and selected one of a man named Peter PIPER. I produce this series of photographs and identify them Ref. No. PIR/1.

Signature_________________ Signature Witnessed by________________

Assignment questions

You should answer the following 13 questions as fully as you can.

•    Write about 2000-3000 words. Write in sentences, unless advised otherwise, and cite any reference materials that you use.
•    Answer the questions in order, numbering your answers clearly.
•    Give concise answers to each question. Answer the question and do not include irrelevant information.
•    You will find information to help you answer these questions in the lecture notes that you have made during the module AND in the recommended text books. You may also find information on WOLF, in your practical and from other sources. More than anything you should also use your own common sense!
•    Read the separate Coursework Guidance document and Assignment Marking Grid for more details about what is expected.
•    This is a mythical scenario and you will not find reference to these places, events or individuals on-line!

1. a) List, in bullet point format, all the major crimes that appear to have been committed.

b) List, in bullet point format, all the volume crimes that appear to have been committed.

2. List, in bullet point format, all the potential crime scenes in this scenario. Remember, each crime scene will need to be investigated.

3. Explain briefly why it is important to consider all of these crimes and crime scenes, and not just the major ones, and why evidence should be collected for each of them.

4. Describe the actions that PC Roberts, the First Officer Attending at the alleyway, should take AFTER the victim has been taken to hospital, and any other tasks he could usefully carry out. Make clear the order of his actions and his priorities.

5. Describe the actions that PC Kaur, the First Officer Attending at the park, should take AFTER the suspect has been taken to hospital and any other tasks she could usefully carry out. Make clear the order of her actions and her priorities.

6. Describe clearly, and justify, where exactly any cordons should be placed. Who would be responsible for placing and monitoring these cordons? What should be done with any members of the public who might be inside the areas to be cordoned off?

7. Describe the actions that PC Neilson should take AT the hospital. Make clear the order of his actions and his priorities.

8. Identify possible key evidence items (i.e. ones that are most likely to help to secure a conviction). Explain where these items might be located and how they might be found, protected or collected by the First Officer Attending or other officers. If any key evidence items are missing, where, when and how might they be located?

9. List, in bullet point format, all types of recording and documentation of the crime scenes prior to, and during, the removal of any items of evidence. Who should do this? Comment on both continuity and integrity of evidence handling, making clear what these terms mean.

10. For each potential key evidence item, briefly outline and justify the correct procedure for packaging of that item.

11. For the described scenario, identify any reference (control / elimination) samples that should be taken. Explain what samples should be taken and why. Who should take these samples, and where should they be collected?

12. List, in bullet point format, any other specialist personnel that be required to provide specialist support. Explain exactly where and when they would need to attend and what they would be tasked to do. Give consideration to the seriousness of the crime(s) and available funding – be realistic about what is required and prioritise requests for additional personnel.

13. Discuss which sources of evidence are the most likely to secure a conviction for the more serious crime categories. Explain your reasoning.

List any references that you use at the end of your report.
Use Oxford, Harvard or any other standard referencing format.
You don’t have to use any references if you feel you don’t need any.
If you wish to make sketch maps to explain your points please do so.

Read and check your work thoroughly before submitting it. Ensure that you have answered all the questions. Ensure that you have written in good English and that your answers are clear and concise.

State the number of words that you have used at the end of your answers.

Often the questions ask you to give an answer and to explain your answer: “the answer is this because this”. Don’t forget to give the explanation if you are asked to explain or justify your answer.

1.) The writer needs to be knowledgeable that holds a Masters or PHD in Criminology or in a similar subject.

2.) The writer needs to make sure that Learning Outcomes (LO), LO1,LO2,LO3 are covered in this case analysis.

3.) The writer needs to Analyse the case study and follow the full instructions as requested on the coursework.

4.) I require the writer to provide me with at least two drafts of the work before submitting the actual coursework, I would need to understand how you are going to plan and organise the coursework. I need to know your thoughts about the coursework, including what references your going to use and why.

5.) I need to achieve 70+ in this coursework, I would like you to follow the marking grid to ensure that you are meeting the first class grade. All the additional information is uploaded including the case analysis coursework.

6) Read through every attachment including general coursework feedback, this will give you a view of what mistakes other students have made so then you can make sure you are not following that direction.

7) I would like you to communicate with me throughout the process of this coursework, I would like updates regularly.

8) I have uploaded the timetable for my studies. Alongside it is important that you read upon the books that it indicates in the CR section. This will help to complete the coursework. Keep an eye on this regularly.

9) I have uploaded the Case Analysis Coursework brief, Harvard Referencing Guide, Task words, Guide to planning your assignment, report writing guide, presentation slides on my lectures, Packaging crime scene items guide and practical technique guide etc make use of this. Just make sure it’s consistent, readable, organised and no complicated big words. 10) If you don’t understand anything don’t assume just ask

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