Body Lists

Question 1

What is the PURPOSE OF A POST MORTEM

(PENDDD)

Answer 1

PURPOSE OF POST MORTEM

(PENDDD)

• Provide areas of interest for subsequent interviews
• Establish how injures and events contributed to death
• Negate possible defences
• Determine nature and size of weapon used
• Determine approximate height and stature of suspect
• Determine possible mode and time of death

Question 2

What to do when Moving the body

(R

(PAWLAR)

(REOCCUPIES)

Answer 2

Moving the body

(RREOCCUPIES)

• Record details -

(PAWLAR)

Possession of limbs

Appearance of body

Wounds and clothing

Lividity

Any direct of blood trails

Rigor mortis

• Record the position of the body by sketch, photos or audio
• Ensure clothing on the body is not contaminated by foreign objects
• Obtain approval from the O/C to removethe body
• Consider health risks by handling the body
• Cover the head, hands and feet with a paper bag and tape
• Undertaker arranged to remove the body to the morgue when directed by the O/C
• Place body in a plastic sheet before body bag
• In consultation with the O/C record and mark the body from a fixed object
• Ensure the exhibits retained, sheets, body bag and other materials used to move body
• Search underneath where the body lay

Question 3

What to do on Arrival at morgue

(REEEA)

Answer 3

Arrival at morgue

(REEEA)

• Retain any key used to secure the body
• Ensure the mortuary staff do not wash the body
• Ensure the body remains in the present condition
• Ensure the body is labelled and secured in the fridge
• Arrange formal identification

Question 4

What to do when Stripping the body

(PRELIM SPEARS)

Answer 4

Stripping the body

(PRELIM SPEARS)

• Pathologist must be present when the body is stripped
• Remove body from the bag with minimal disturbance
• Exhibit the body bag and the sheet
• Label each item of clothing and seize
• Innovatory made of items seized
• Maintain security of the body and the exhibits
• Seal each item separately
• Photographer directed to take extra photos if necessary
• Ensure there is no cross contamination with exhibits
• Assist mortuary staff to take the body from the fridge to the exam room
• Remove and search items of clothing
• Sieve over the drain hole to collect trace evidence

Question 5

Responsibilities with a body

(RAPID DOMESTIC CRAPS)

Answer 5

Responsibilities

(RAPID DOMESTIC CRAPS)

• Remove clothing and personal effects from the body
• Attend the post mortem with O/C and deputy
• Photographers directed
• Identification arranged (POL2658
• Debrief with pathologist and record finding
• Details recorded of medical staff to tended to the victim
• Observations of the body
• Maintain the security and continuity of the body, exhibits and samples
• Establish whether the body has been moved or
• Sudden death procedures completed
• Transport the body to the mortuary on the authority of O/C
• In situ, photograph the body
• Certificate of life extinct signed by an advanced paramedic or doctor (POL265)
• Cultural responsibilities addressed
• Record label and secure samples associated with the body
• Arrange fingerprints and palm prints to be take
• Preserve evidence from the body
• Secure and guard body, exhibits and samples