When i was in the police (UK) we did crime scene training, and a few hours of it involved talking about how we can try and cope when seeing a dead body for the first time.
The advice we were given is that basically they are no longer a person. They are a fleshy meat sack which we should consider as being evidence of a potential crime. We were told to ignore the body and concentrate on the scene.
What can we see/smell/hear. Document everything. Were lights on/off, were doors locked/unlocked. Windows open/closed. Smashed glass on the inside of the house or the outside.
It didn’t matter if it was suspicious or not. We were reminded we weren’t detectives, we weren’t there to solve a murder, just secure evidence.
And it worked. Found a dead person on my second day. She, like every other sinilar job I’d been to had died of natural causes. But I remembered my training and just did my job.
Other cops would rely on humour. Ignore the corpse, crack jokes.
And yes, we were shown pictures of incredibly gruesome scenes. My favourite was the embolism, looked like a scene from Saw.
Haha no. Most people who died from natural causes were found by family members and we wouldn’t be involved.
We would generally only attend if the death was untimely (like a healthy young person), if there had been an “accident” or if the paramedics thought something didn’t seem right.
We were only called on this occasion because it started as a concern for safety call for an elderly person and we were needed to force entry. Knew pretty much straight away that it wasn’t suspicious, (doors locked with keys on the inside/windows closed/no signs of a struggle etc).
As a trainee I needed the experience with all different types of job so my tutor would cherry pick incidents and take us to stuff like this to broaden what I was exposed to.
When i was in the police (UK) we did crime scene training, and a few hours of it involved talking about how we can try and cope when seeing a dead body for the first time.
The advice we were given is that basically they are no longer a person. They are a fleshy meat sack which we should consider as being evidence of a potential crime. We were told to ignore the body and concentrate on the scene.
What can we see/smell/hear. Document everything. Were lights on/off, were doors locked/unlocked. Windows open/closed. Smashed glass on the inside of the house or the outside.
It didn’t matter if it was suspicious or not. We were reminded we weren’t detectives, we weren’t there to solve a murder, just secure evidence.
And it worked. Found a dead person on my second day. She, like every other sinilar job I’d been to had died of natural causes. But I remembered my training and just did my job.
Other cops would rely on humour. Ignore the corpse, crack jokes.
And yes, we were shown pictures of incredibly gruesome scenes. My favourite was the embolism, looked like a scene from Saw.
Holy shit that was fast. Or is it that common?
A lot of people die.
*everybody dies
[citation needed]
This was at least true until August 20th, 1909 [source]
*so far
Some slower than preferred. Some far earlier.
Haha no. Most people who died from natural causes were found by family members and we wouldn’t be involved.
We would generally only attend if the death was untimely (like a healthy young person), if there had been an “accident” or if the paramedics thought something didn’t seem right.
We were only called on this occasion because it started as a concern for safety call for an elderly person and we were needed to force entry. Knew pretty much straight away that it wasn’t suspicious, (doors locked with keys on the inside/windows closed/no signs of a struggle etc).
As a trainee I needed the experience with all different types of job so my tutor would cherry pick incidents and take us to stuff like this to broaden what I was exposed to.