Emergency Healthcare Teams’ Approach to Crime Scene and Evidences in Forensic Cases: A Descriptive Study in Turkey
Muzaffer Berna Doğan, Ayşe Selcen Güçhan, Itır Tarı Cömert, Itır Erkan, Özlem Kolusayın Ozar, Kadir Daştan, Emel Hülya Yükseloğlu · Forensic Science Policy & Management An International Journal · 2013
The healthcare teams that are the first to reach the crime scene perform emergency intervention on the victim or perpetrator on the crime scene. And they have important impacts on the evidence, whether knowingly or unknowingly. This study aims to measure the level of knowledge possessed by emergency healthcare teams in some Istanbul ambulances with respect to crime-scene investigation, protection of evidence, and approaches to the crime scene. As a result of the study it was found that the members of staff employed to cover the pre-hospitalization stage did not have the desired level of knowledge in relation to crime-scene awareness, crime-scene investigation, and the collection and preservation of evidence.