Evaluate The Issues That Arise That Would Compromise The Investigation And Prosecution Of Alleged Perpetrators?

1. Evaluate the issues which arise when first responders (police or paramedics) are called to a crime scene, which (prior to their arrival) is discovered to be a source of digital crime. What complexities are likely to arise that would compromise the investigation and prosecution of alleged perpetrators? Unit 3. Many criminal investigations will include computers at some point in a case. Murder and rape suspects, through a search warrant, may have their email and Internet activities analyzed to find evidence about their motives or hiding locations. Corporations investigate computers when an employee is suspected of unauthorized actions. Fraud investigations collect transaction history evidence from servers. Imagine police officers are dispatched to a domestic disturbance call. The officers arrive at the location of the call and perform all of the proper protocols they have been trained for domestic violence calls. They determine the locations of the victim, suspect, children or pets. Next, they determine if any weapons are involved or are there any weapons in the household. All parties are then separated and then interviewed. During the interview of the victim, the wife, the officers learn that the husband is involved in child pornography. The wife’s discovery of

In interrogating of the victim, the officers decided this incident is a single-location crime scene because there is not any multifaceted networking or anything with huge storage capacity. In order to ensure proper protocols in this investigation, the officers call for a trained investigator from their department who has the basic skills to organize the investigation, determine the elements of the crime and the connection between the suspect and the crime, and document the investigation (Taylor, Fritsch, Liederbach, and Holt,