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What is the major role that a crime scene investigator plays in an investigation?


A Crime Scene Investigator is a member of law enforcement agencies who is solely responsible for identifying and investigating the physical evidence at the scene of a crime. It is also often believed that crime scene investigators are the professionals performing tests on the physical evidence which is the job for forensic scientists and professionals.


 

Depending on what the crime scene investigator's role in the particular agency is, their duties vary significantly. Some of them perform standard physical evidence collection and preservation duties while in some places the CSIs perform more specialized tasks, such as DNA and print recovery, etc.

The crime scene investigator is responsible to make sure that every piece of evidence at the crime scene strays uncontaminated and to ensure the authenticity of each and every evidence piece so that there is no tempering.They are also responsible to mark out as to how spread-out the crime scene is and where the markings need to be laid in order for the records to show the area of the crime scene. They work day in and out in order for the detectives to get every single piece of evidence analyzed properly and to make sure that the useful information is extracted from every piece without skipping on or leaving out any detail.

Moreover, they are responsible for maintaining the quality of every piece of equipment in the labs so that none of the evidence goes by unanalyzed and every piece is identified and investigated on time and efficiently.The CSIs also prepare detailed reports on every case to be stored in police records for the database to be created so that it can be referred to in the future with similar or even different cases.

People all around the world, especially the Americans, have a special obsession when it comes to crime shows and dramas and it does not seem to be going away anytime soon. To some extent, if we think the idea of crime scene investigation is not that bad at all because it has benefited both law enforcement agencies and the courts to put way the bad people and make sure that the innocent ones are safe.

In the novel, The Enigma Man, author says that everything that happens at a crime scene leads the detectives and investigators towards the criminal so they need to be very careful when it comes to analyzing the crime scenes because they are the playgrounds for the criminals and if analyzed properly and effectively they lead us directly to the criminals too. Detectives and investigators show how experienced or inexperienced they are by the way they analyze the facts and figures.

Every detective gains experience with each case that they solve and it does not matter how much time they take in order to solve it, it ends up adding experience at their side of the ledger and makes them learn as to what needs to be done in what kind of case.

Author Bio:

Devan Roberts is one of the most experienced mystery novel writers who write mind-boggling detectives takes that entice the readers and keep them involved in the books until the last page. He is an aspiring author and writer who believes that the best way for people to express their thoughts is by expressing them through words.

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