Essential items for first responding officers.

Initial responding officer(s) must

have the following items readily available. Officers may want to consider keeping
them in police vehicles:

• Bindle paper. • Biohazard bags.

• Consent/search forms. • Crime scene barricade tape.

• First-aid kit. • Flares.

• Flashlight and extra batteries. • Markers

• Notebook. • Paper bags.

• Personal protective equipment

Essential items for crime scene personnel. Responding crime scene officer(s)
must have the following items readily available. Officers should keep them in
police vehicles or readily available toolkits.

• Bindle paper. • Biohazard bags.

• Bodily fluid collection kit. • Camera.

• Evidence seals/tape. • Flashlight(s) with extra batteries.

• Footwear casting materials. • Graph paper and pencils,
small ruler or straight edge.

• Latent print kit. • Measuring devices.

• Multifunction utility tool. • Notebook.

• Paper bags (various sizes). • Permanent markers.

• Personal protective equipment. • Placards

• Plastic resealable bags (various sizes) • Scales for photography.

• Spray paint, chalk, etc. • Syringe/knife tubes

• Tweezers(disposable).
Optional items. Officers may need to use other items, and may wish to have them
readily available in their police vehicle. These items include:
• Audio recorder. • Biohazard labels

• Bloodstain pattern examination kit. • Business cards

• Backup camera. • Chalk

• Cutting instruments. • Directional marker/compass

• Disinfectant. • Distilled water

• Entomology (insect) collection kit. • Evidence collection containers.

• Evidence identifiers. • Evidence seals/tape

• Extension cords. • Fingerprint ink pad and pint cards for

elimination prints
• Flags for marking evidence and setting • Forensic light source
up search patterns.

• Generator. • Gunshot residue kit

• High-intensity lights. • Labels

• Laser trajectory kit. • Magnifying glass.

• Maps. • Marker stickers such as numbers,
letters, arrows, scales.

• Marking paint/snow wax. • Metal detector.

• Mirror. • Nail clippers and orange peeler

• Phone listing. • Pocket knife.

• Presumptive blood test supplies. • Privacy screens.

• Protrusion rod set. • Rakes.

• Razor blades or knife. • Reflective vest.

• Refrigeration or cooling unit. • Respirators with filters.

• Roll of string. • Rubber bands.

• Screen sifters. • Sexual assault evidence collection kit.

• Shoe print lifting equipment. • Tarps to protect evidence from the weather.

• Templates. • Thermometer.
• Tool kit. • Traffic cones.

• Trajectory rods. • Waterless hand wash.

Examples of Evidence Collection Kits A blood collection kit might include:

• Coin envelopes. • Disposable scalpels.

• Distilled water. • Ethanol.

• Evidence identifiers. • Latex gloves.

• Photographic ruler. • Presumptive chemicals.

• Sterile gauze. • Sterile swabs.

• Test tubes/test tube rack.

A bloodstain pattern documentation kit might include:

• ABFO scales. • Calculator.
• Laser pointer. • Permanent markers.

• Protractor. • String.

• Tape.

An excavation kit might include:

• Cones/markers. • Evidence identifiers.
• Metal detectors. • Paintbrushes.

• Shovels/trowels. • Sifting screens.

• String. • Weights.

• Wooden/metal stakes.

A fingerprint kit might include:

• Black and white film. • Brushes.
• Chemical enhancement supplies. • Cyanoacrylate (super glue)

• wand/packets. • Flashlight.

• Forensic light source. • Lift cards.

• Lift tape. • Measurement scales.

• One-to-one camera. • Powders.

An impression kit might include:

• Impression • Bowls/mixing containers.

• Boxes. • Dental stone (die stone).

• Evidence identifiers. • Measurement scales.

• Permanent markers. • Snow print wax.

• Water.
A pattern print lifter kit might include:
• Casting materials. • Chemical enhancement supplies.

• Electrostatic dust lifter. • Gel lifter.l

• Wide format lift tape.

A trace evidence collection kit might include:

• Acetate sheet protectors. • Bindle paper.

• Clear tape/adhesive lift. • Electrostatic dust lifter.

• Flashlight (oblique lighting). • Forceps/tweezers.

• Glass vials. • Slides and slide mailers.

• Trace evidence vacuum with disposable collection filters.

A trajectory kit might include:

• Calculator. • Canned smoke.
• Dummy. • Laser.

• Mirror. • Protractor.

• String. • Trajectory rods.