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1.4. Members of the police party engaged in the action shall not touch any material<br />
evidence, including weapons used against them, with their bare hands. If it becomes<br />
essential to handle any object or body at the site, they shall either use gloves, or in their<br />
absence, handkerchiefs or pieces of cloth to cover their hands.<br />
1.5. Bodies of persons who have died in the action [police as well as citizens] will be moved<br />
with the utmost care, ideally in body bags and in the presence and under the supervision of<br />
forensic experts. When such experts in forensic medicine are not immediately available, they<br />
shall be replaced by the nearest available medical officer of a Government hospital and<br />
great care must be taken to ensure that no evidence is lost or contaminated in the process of<br />
shifting the deceased from the venue of the police action.<br />
1.6. Particular care must be taken to ensure that the hands of the deceased persons and of<br />
those injured, are covered with clean cloth, to preserve evidence of gunshot residue through<br />
a mandatory dermal nitrate test for gun power residues.<br />
2.0: SITE OF THE ENCOUNTER: DUTIES OF POLICE / SPECIAL INVESTIGATION<br />
TEAMS<br />
2.1. Other policemen, including forensic experts][medicine and science], who are not<br />
belonging to the police party that was engaged in the police action and not under the same<br />
senior officer who led the action will take over the site at the earliest from their colleagues<br />
who were involved in the ‘police action’. They will carry equipment essential for the gathering<br />
of evidence, and ensure it is collected, recorded and despatched securely and quickly<br />
following all precautions to ensure no evidence is lost. .<br />
2.<br />
2.2. The forensic experts, or in their absence, the senior police officer now in charge of the<br />
investigation, will:<br />
2.2.1. be assisted by an assistant to undertake a continuous videotape, with sound<br />
recording, which will detail what they see, find, recover, store and despatch from the place of<br />
action; if such finding, recovery etc is in different places, care shall be taken to ensure that in<br />
each of the places the videography is carefully and skilfully carried out to ensure that all<br />
national and international standards and guidelines are adhered to.<br />
2.2.2. ensure that all samples taken are immediately stored in sterile packaging, clearly<br />
labelled;<br />
2.2.3. take samples on sterile swabs from the hands and fingers of the dead men to be<br />
tested in a forensic laboratory for the presence of gunshot residue and conducting<br />
the dermal nitrate test ;<br />
2.2.4. lift fingerprints from all objects recovered from the bodies, including weapons and<br />
mobile phones;<br />
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