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CITY OF BURBANK ILLINOIS |
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FACT: Did you know that your fingerprints, those patterns of whorls, arches and loops, were formed before you were born and will never change except from injury or disease.
60 to 65 percent of the population have loops, 30 to 35 percent have whorls and about 5 percent have arches.
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Evidence Technician
The Burbank
Police Department has a highly trained group of Evidence Technicians. In
addition to their regular duties as Patrol Officers and Detectives, the
Evidence Technicians are called out to process crime scenes and retrieve
evidence. The primary duties of the
Evidence
Technicians are identifying,
collecting, and preserving trace evidence; locating and preserving
fingerprints; documenting crime scenes through still photography, video,
diagrams, and drawings; utilizing computer programs to generate facial
composites; and |
preserving anything of evidentiary value. A major responsibility of the
position is to safeguard and maintain the integrity of all evidence and a
chain of custody in accordance with State law, City ordinance, and
Departmental policies and procedures. There is at least one Evidence
Technician on duty or on call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.