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LEO Assessment 2 Questions and Answers (Latest update 2024)
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LEO Assessment 2 Questions andAnswers (Latest update 2024)
Responsibilities of Medical Examiner include: - Correct
Answer ✅ • Determine cause of death
• Determine manner of death
• Obtain positive identification
• Provide expert testimony in court
Operation and staffing of the Office of the Medical Examiner
and the capabilities of the office. - Correct Answer ✅ ♦
OME is a subsidiary of the Utah Department of Health and
has statewide jurisdiction
♦ OME Staff Positions
• Forensic Pathologists
• Deputy Medical Examiners
• Investigators
• Forensic Anthropology Consultants
• Forensic Odontology Consultants
Who can pronounce someone dead? - Correct Answer ✅
Any reasonable person
,LEO Assessment 2 Questions and
Answers (Latest update 2024)
Who can sign a death certificate? - Correct Answer ✅ A
physician licensed to practice in the state of Utah
Attended/Unattended deaths - Correct Answer ✅ •
Attended death is a death which results from natural causes
and where the physician has seen the patient within the last
30 days
• A regular physician may sign the death certificate on an
attended death
• All other cases are considered unattended and must be
reported to the Medical Examiner
Appropriate and inappropriate activities by officer on the
scene of a dead body: - Correct Answer ✅ When an officer
arrives at the scene and a death has been determined, all
activity involving the body should cease
• Officers should not allow movement, cleansing, viewing by
family or other activities that will interfere with the
investigation
• Appropriate activities, such as viewing by family, may be
allowed after the on-scene investigation is concluded
,LEO Assessment 2 Questions and
Answers (Latest update 2024)
Officer responsibilities at the scene of a dead body: - Correct
Answer ✅ Initial duties:
• If the death appears to be natural, question family, friends,
witnesses and look for medications that will establish medical
history
• Contact the attending physician and determine whether
they will sign the death certificate
Determine what the "scene" is
♦ Secure and restrict unnecessary movements and
contamination
♦ Obtain statements from the people present
Secure and preserve evidence
Extra officer responsibilities at the scene of a dead body: -
Correct Answer ✅ • An attended death may be released to
the mortuary of the family's choosing and need not be
reported to OME
• All other cases must be reported
• If you have any doubts or questions, call OME for
assistance• For most cases that are under the jurisdiction of
, LEO Assessment 2 Questions and
Answers (Latest update 2024)
the Medical Examiner, an OME investigator will respond to
the scene
Initial responding officer should wait for the OME investigator
before collecting or processing evidence
• OME is entitled to the body and anything associated with
the body
• This evidence must be viewed in its original state for
documentation and assessment of what occurred
• The death scene is a joint jurisdictional investigation and
the needs of all parties must be satisfied
Considerations for evidence collection from a dead body: -
Correct Answer ✅ ♦ Physical evidence on the body should
be preserved for the forensic pathologist to see in its place of
discovery
• It will be collected during the OME examination
♦ Hair, fiber, fingernails, clothing, Code "R" sexual assault at
the request of the investigating agency, and trace evidence
will be collected and released to law enforcement
investigators for further forensic examination
♦ Gunshot Residue (GSR) test
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