Identify Your Intended Victim Locate a Scene for Murder Choose Method of Murder Lure Victim To Murder Scene Remember Your Forensic Counter Measures Murder Victim Provide Yourself With An Alibi. Simples.
Writing Crime – Using A Family Liaison Officer
We’ve previously found a dead body, now we need to keep in pretty close contact with the family of the victim. This takes a lot of time and instead of having a stream of different officers turning up at the door asking questions as and when needed, forces now have what are called family liaison […]
Post Mortems in Crime Novels
So, we’ve looked at how police talk to each other, deal with crime scenes and places you can research policing for your novel. Today we are going to look at the post mortem. In the UK, a Home Office Pathologist is appointed by the Coroner to perform a post mortem. The purpose is to find […]
Who To Call To Your Murder Crime Scene
So, we’re still at the crime scene. It’s a long and complicated job. A lot of it depends on the murder itself. If you have a domestic murder where a spouse has been hit over the head with a frying pan in the kitchen, and the offending spouse is stood there with said frying pan […]
What To Do When Attending The Crime Scene Of A Murder (Part 2)
At the end of last month, I wrote a post outlining what a uniform response officer would do when initially attending a crime scene where a murder has taken place. (You can find that first post Here.) Today I’m going to talk about what the investigating detectives are going to look at when they turn […]
What To Do When Attending A Crime Scene
Back in May I wrote a post on the working relationships of police officers and stated that it would be the first in a series of posts on policing. I haven’t yet followed up on that. This is now that second post. And from now on, I shall try to be a bit more regular […]