Knowledge of Law Enforcement Methods, Practices and Procedures
DIRECTIONS: Each situation below puts you, as a police lieutenant, in a position where accepted police practice settles what should be done. Answer from that practice applied to the facts as the situation states them.
An officer brings you a knife recovered from a public stairwell at a stabbing scene. He carried it to the station in his jacket pocket and says he handled it by the blade only. No photograph was taken of the knife where it lay, and nothing has yet been written down about where it was found.