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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Maintain documentation
   • Compile and maintain accurate, complete, legible and comprehensible documentation including notes. and associated records relating to cases/jobs/tasks.
   • Ensure appropriate handling of documentation to the security level of the document concerned.
2. Handle documentation
   • Submit documentation such as notes, reports and associated records.
   • Store/archive notes and associated records at the conclusion of proceedings.
3. Maintain documentation
   • Compile and maintain accurate, complete, legible and comprehensible documentation including notes. and associated records relating to cases/jobs/tasks.
   • Ensure appropriate handling of documentation to the security level of the document concerned.
4. Handle documentation
   • Submit documentation such as notes, reports and associated records.
   • Store/archive notes and associated records at the conclusion of proceedings.

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least one occasion.

preparing, completing and submitting statements, reports, task files, logs and other forensic documentation including at least two of:

handwritten notes

forensic reports

legal reports

sketch plans

photographs

scale plans

video/audio tapes

digital voice records

task logs

witness statements

external reports

exhibit registers

exhibit logs

photocopies of published research/supporting materials

database and case management system entries

reports, including statements, statutory declarations and affidavits

preparing exhibits including at least two of:

sketch and scale plans

photographs

digital voice records

task logs

reports

photocopies of published research/supporting materials

database and case management system entries

information technology skills

organisational skills

gathering, recording, collating, analysing and re-evaluating techniques

maximising the potential evidentiary value of the electronic media forensic documentation

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

quality system requirements relating to note taking and preparation of task files/reports

organisational policy and procedural requirements for the reporting of findings to clients/stakeholders

approved formats of forms, case files and reports

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