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Mission Statement
"The mission statement of the Technical Service Bureau is to provide crime scene investigation to the Wichita Police Department through recognition, collection, and preservation of physical evidence. Provide to this department and outside agencies, examination and analysis of physical evidence, expert testimony in a court of law to aid in the prosecution of the guilty and the protection of the innocent." |
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Pat Cunningham
Lab Director
(Email me here)
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The Technical Service Bureau is divided into two sections;
Property & Evidence and the Crime Laboratory
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Property & Evidence Section |
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The Property and Evidence Section is responsible for maintaining care and custody of all evidence, personal and found property submitted by the police department. Inventory is kept by logging all properties in the computer system. Once a year the Property & Evidence Section have an auction to sell off properties that were never claimed. Quarterly the Property & Evidence Section auction unclaimed vehicles.
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Joetta Richardson
Administrative
Assistant
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Donna Richard
Property Clerk |
Millie Burgett
Service Officer |
JoAnne Redfield
Service Officer |
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Anne Keazer
Service Officer
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Joan Kyle
Service Officer |
Paula Halstead
Clerk II |
Joan Yunker
Clerk II |
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The Crime Lab is divided into the following units: |
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Latent Prints
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Latent Print Examiner
Mindy Craig
Certified Latent Print (IAI) |
Latent Print Examiner
Det. Tim Mitchell |
The Crime Lab has two Latent Print Examiners. Their responsibilities are to examine, grade, compare and run the latent prints into the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) and the International Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). The Latent Print Examiners process approximately 30,000 latent prints a year.
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Photography
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Photographer
Pam Huffmier
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Photo Technician
Jerry Ogburn |
The Crime Lab has one Photographer and one Photo Technician. They are responsible for developing all of the rolls of film taken by the police department and the printing of photographs for the courts. They also develop and print photographs from other agencies. The Photography Section develops approximately 7,000 rolls of film each year. |
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