Colorado POST (Test 5)fully solved 2024/2025

Colorado POST (Test 5)CLASS: ID and collection of evidence - correct answer 10/6/2016 Blood stain pattern analysis is dependent on what it hits - correct answer TRUE Are you as a patrol officer, skilled enough to know if a latent print is of any value or not? - correct answer NO What is the legal rule that you submit the original evidence? - correct answer Best evidence rule What are the three sources of evidence? - correct answer Victim, Suspect, Crime Scene (Evidence Triangle) Who is in charge of the crime scene? - correct answer The first officer on scene until relieved What are the three cardinal rules of protecting and preserving the evidence at a crime scene? - correct answer Don't touch anything, Control Access, Document items that have been disturbed How would you find the choke and barrel length of a shotgun? - correct answer Shot Pattern Blood stain pattern analysis depends on what two things? - correct answer Surface, Plane surface exists What does a bullet hole through a window look like? - correct answer Cone shaped. Small on entry, large on exit What is a standard of comparison? - correct answer Something that you know where it came from. You know the source to compare your evidence to