Evidence Technician Division

 

Contact: To make an appointment to pick up recovered property please call  (530) 542-6145

Our Evidence Technicians are non-sworn civilian employees with specialized training forensics.  They assist in Crime Scene Investigations.  They perform a wide variety of responsible, technical and professional duties involved in preparing, identifying, and maintaining criminal identification records and evidence as part of the investigation and prosecution work of the Police Department.

 

Among the several duties of our evidence technicians, they assume responsibility for the preparation, identification, and maintenance of fingerprints and other related identification records. They conduct specialized tasks in photography, latent fingerprint development, arson and bomb investigations, bloodstain interpretation, hair fiber and trace evidence collection. They also fingerprint suspects, prisoners, and corpses; classify and identify fingerprints; assist in identification matters with Federal, State and local authorities; prepare fingerprint displays.  Our evidence technicians conduct identification calls to crime scenes; searches for and collects physical evidence; photograph and video records crime scene; make diagrams and log items collected from each location.

 

Evidence technicians will book property into and out of evidence to preserve the chain of evidence; maintain files and daily logs; destroy and release property; inventory monies and narcotics; generate reports and assists other members of the department with investigations. They also serve as expert witnesses by providing courtroom testimony.

 

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