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Findings and Recommendations 2 findings
F1
The Police Departments all follow California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST). Some also comply with the more rigorous International Association of Property and Evidence standards. Property officers, both sworn and civilian, were well trained.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
The Sheriff should update property room policies and procedures to meet industry standards, especially those pertaining to the temporary storage of evidence to make it more secure.
F2
The Sheriff’s Department complies with the POST Standards and all legal statutes. Officers are all well trained and disciplined in their recording of evidence. Corrections in the storage of evidence has made it more secure from theft or intermingling with other cases. Policy and procedure directives are dated and supervision of Substation property rooms was lax until after Grand Jury inspections.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
The Sheriff’s Department should conduct regular, independent monitoring of substation property rooms.
Conclusions 1
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CL1The Grand Jury found no indication of compromise of the chain of custody. The Police Departments and the Sheriff’s Department all followed set industry standards for evidence processing and storage. All had written policies and procedures for logging in evidence, though the Sheriff Department’s policy and procedure directive was dated. They all had a full or part time property manager, and restricted access to locked evidence. All had some form of refrigerated DNA storage. The Grand Jury commends the Arroyo Grande Police Department, the Atascadero Police Department, the City of Grover Beach Police Department, the City of Morro Bay Police Department, the City of Paso Robles Police Department, the Pismo Beach Police Department and the San Luis Obispo Police Department for the security of their property rooms. We also commend the San Luis Obispo Superior Court and the District Attorney for their Evidence Storage rooms.
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