So saturday night i get called to help out with a possible OWI stop. The officer who made contact had to take the suspect to the hospital to get a blood draw. When the results came back (she was on a real buffet of drugs) he called me to go ahead and start my inventory and call for the next avaliable wrecker. as soon as I started my search I found two baggies of a "green leafy substance" and 5 "partialy burnt hand rolled cigaretts". so i begin taking notes of where I'm finding this stuff, and filling out the vehicle inventory sheet.
Here's where the photographing thing comes in....
I know all of our paid guys have a dept issued camera in their car, and use them quite frequently. How many of you have had your batteries die or have forgotten your camera at your desk only to need it. what did you do? take pics with your "smart" phone and either email them to yourself, or down load them when you get back to do the report? call another partol and use theirs?
It didn't dawn on me to use my phone to take the pics, so there I was taking copious notes of where all of this stuff was, since I knew would be filling out a supplemental report, packaging, and cataloging the evidence later.
Here's where the photographing thing comes in....
I know all of our paid guys have a dept issued camera in their car, and use them quite frequently. How many of you have had your batteries die or have forgotten your camera at your desk only to need it. what did you do? take pics with your "smart" phone and either email them to yourself, or down load them when you get back to do the report? call another partol and use theirs?
It didn't dawn on me to use my phone to take the pics, so there I was taking copious notes of where all of this stuff was, since I knew would be filling out a supplemental report, packaging, and cataloging the evidence later.
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