Blackstone's Senior Investigating Officers' Handbook is designed specifically to meet the quick-reference needs of any officer conducting a serious investigation. The only portable step-by-step guide to the processes and actions involved in the role of a Senior Investigating Officer (SIO), it explains all the relevant procedures and instructions integral to the position in a clear and accessible style.
Now in its fifth edition, this Handbook takes you through all the stages inherent to an SIO's role: from management, leadership and decision making to initial response, crime scene management, conducting searches, applying investigative strategies, and managing victims, suspects and witnesses, as well as conducting death investigations and sudden infant deaths.
Whether you conduct, review, or take a professional interest in major and serious crime investigations, this title will be an invaluable resource. It is a 'must have' reference tool for any SIO or prospective SIO.