Interface A Guide for Professionals Supporting the Criminal Justice
A wide variety of professionals find themselves intimately involved in the criminal justice system; firefighters, emergency medical providers, nurses, physicians, public health personnel, environmental professionals, public works personnel, and many other
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Series Editor Ashraf Mozayani, Ph.D. Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office Houston, Texas, USA
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Paul R. Laska
Interface A Guide for Professionals Supporting the Criminal Justice System
Paul R. Laska Forensic Consulting, Inc. Palm City, FL 34990 USA [email protected]
ISSN 2157-0353 e-ISSN 2157-0361 ISBN 978-1-61779-278-6 e-ISBN 978-1-61779-279-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-61779-279-3 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011932490 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Humana Press, c/o Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Humana Press is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The past 30 years have seen tremendous changes in the roles of the various professionals who comprise the public safety realm. These changes especially affect the nonlaw enforcement components. Where “first aider” ambulance drivers had little interface with patients, EMS professionals have extensive interchange with their patients. Many jurisdictions see either fire departments routinely running with, and assisting, EMS responders, or absorbing EMS into Fire-Rescue Departments, with the assigned firefighters encountering the same conditions as their EMS counterparts. The growth of heavy rescue and technical extrication teams has also changed the role of the fire service, as professionals in these specialty fields often interface with law enforcement on a frequent basis. Their role in rescue often makes them the only knowledgeable witnesses to a scene prior to its being greatly altered by rescue activities. Similarly, the advent of hazardous materials (haz-mat) teams has impacted the relationship of public safety responders to the criminal justice system. With the parallel growth of environmental investigations, haz-mat personnel may either be complaining witnesses to criminal incidents, or provide support services to the investigators. Clandestine drug laboratories (clanlabs) and explosives laboratories fall within the response purview of haz-mat teams, and deeply intertwine their operations with the investigative process and the bomb squad response. The “war on terrorism” has further involved the haz-mat unit into bomb and weapon of mass destruction (WMD) response protocols. Public health services
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