NCJ Number
86362
Date Published
1974
Length
144 pages
Annotation
The purpose of this manual is to furnish guidance, suggest policy, and outline standardized practices for the benefit of personnel and agencies concerned with the handling and security of narcotic and dangerous drug physical evidence. Emphasis is on the maintenance of accurate and comprehensive records.
Abstract
Handling procedures involve the general actions that may be performed in the course of processing evidence, i.e., collection, identification, preservation, receipt, analysis, storage, presentation (if trial results), and eventual disposition or destruction. Security pertains to the measures which are taken during the processing sequence while safeguarding the evidence in order to maintain intact its integrity. The manual is also intended to serve as a basic reference document for the training of individuals in narcotic and dangerous drug evidence handling procedures. In addition, the text contains certain recommendations pertaining to structural standards and intrusion detection devices for evidence rooms, vaults, and repositories. Tabular data and an explanation of terms are given. Appended are schedules of controlled substances, a sample court order authorizing destruction of drugs, sample procedures for destruction of drugs, the role of Drug Enforcement Administration laboratories, and a series of charts pertaining to the textual material.