PM Protection guides to protect fields

In professional security operations, security guards should have a responsibility to protect the scene when the incidents such as as thefts, fire…happen. The purpose of protecting the scene is to ensure the scene to be unaffected of the other processes that change, shuffle traces of physical evidences or the victim’s bodies. If the scene is protected intact, it will create favorable conditions for the examination of the case as the basis for the investigation to clarify the nature of what happened.

Protecting the scene is not just a simple guard where the incident occurred, but a process in which people have a responsibility to protect the scene to carry out the work to prevent the effects altering the inherent situation of the general scene, physical evidence traces in particular. Phat Minh Vuong Security Services Company Limited (PMV) shares with you and your customers important steps in the protection of the scene.

1. What is the scene?

The scene is where the incident occurred. This is a common definition because it mentions the time of the incident and the scene indicates that is a space where certain things have happened we’re talking about.

One can imagine or talk about three types of time of the incident tied to a specific space: where the incident happened, where things will happen and where things are happening …

In criminal science, the field is defined as follows: There are cases where the nature of the incident should be considered criminal to serve for the investigation to clarify the causes and the course of event.

Based on the types of criminal cases, fields are divided into the following categories:

– Scene with the deads

– Burglary scene

– Explosion scene

– The technical, damaged machinery scene

– Robbery scene
– Tape scene

– Traffic accident scene

This classification is relative because there are scenes which complex criminal cases happened such as murder-robbery scene, the scene of the murder but was actually rape scene.

Based on the integrity of the scene, it can be divided into 02 categories:

– Intact scene

– Disturbed scene

Based on the location of the incident, it can be divided into 03 kinds of scenes:

– Indoor field

– Outdoor scene

– Indoor and outdoor scene

Also in practice there are “fake fields” that are where the perpetrator deliberately arranged creating traces to deflect investigations to conceal the offense.

2. The substance of the protection of the scene.

– Protect traces and material evidences from not being damaged, mixed.

– Recognize of the changes, transformations in the field (due to the impact of air temperature, wind etc …);

– Identify witnesses and who can provide documentation of the scene of the perpetrators.

– Recognize of the news related to the incident occurred;

– Exclude the dangers still threatening the lives and health of people;

– Protect valuable objects at risk of damage;

– Protect the field of regional security;

– Catch criminals (if any).

3. In the field of protection, note some of the following tasks:

Timely view the field range, ensuring that guards can see a the scene boundary. If the field is very wide, there must be more people covering the rest of the scene;

– Do not allow anyone not on duty in the area of the site;

– Do not carry any objects in the scene does go elsewhere, and vice versa;

– Not to leave the guard position;

– Do not disclose information and documents trace anyone who has no responsibility.

4. Fire field

Features of the fire scenes are often affected by the fire and rescuing the wounded, killed by fire or smoke inhalation, electrocution. Therefore the protection of this type of field should:

– Recognize the names of the people who participate in fire fighting;

– Recognize the time of warning the fire;

– Acknowledge the information: time fire detection, where the first fire, the largest fire points;

– Firing process: fire direction, the height of the fire, the color of the smoke, the smells of burning;

– Protect electrical system intact as breakers, fuses, wires relay;

– Protect the status of burned equipments;

– Record the testimony of witnesses or the victim:

– Record the statuses of doors, windows when the fire occurred.

– Wind direction, wind speed (if any)

– Recognize destroyed valuable objects.

– Recognize the status of the fire alarm system (if installed).

After the fighting is done, ask the participants leave from the field site in need of protection and to strictly protect the area.

Note: Avoid the dangers due to roof wall, the columns, electrical and fire phenomena.

5. Burglary scene:

Burglary scene usually has the following three types:

– Thieves use strength or support tool to break the door, broke into the house; sculpte roofs to break into top-down, unlock chests to get money or precious metals.

– Thieves use available or other keys (homemade keys, universal keys).

– Thieves take advantage of terrain and objects to climb the wall on the property sector to carry out acts of theft.

For the scene of the burglary, in addition to the basic principles on the protection of the site in general, need to do the following things:

– Expand the scope of protection to questionable rooms where the culprit acts.

– Protect both the access road and the exit road of the perpetrator.

– Store the outdoor tracks and carrier vapor sources such as gloves, towels, clothes, shoes …

6. The technical problems, damaged machinery field:

In addition to the common rules of the protection of the site,, protecting the scene of this kind should be noted:

– Exclude the losses due to the chain reaction caused by the incident.

– Eliminate hazards exist such as toxic substances, electricity, fire leaks.

– Prevent the operation of the agency to seek the cause, repair machinery field before handing over to the investigating agencies.

– Protect the technical documentation related to machinery, technical equipments and production lines damaged by the incident.

– Protect the documents of factories

– Need to know the situation of machinery and technical equipments before the technical problems of factories and enterprises.

– Need to know the situation of technical equipment before the technical incident.

Contact Info
Phat Minh Vuong Security Services Company Limited (PMV)
Headquarters: 40/18 Tran Nao, Binh An, District 2, Ho Chi Minh
Tel: 08- 3740 7026 – 27; Fax: 08- 3740 7028
Email: hcm@pmvs.com.vn
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