Police

The police are involved in every single case that takes place on the planet and have a variety of roles, some ranging from the average officer to important inspectors. The police stay very close to the media and tell them what they can and cant put in their reports based on moral and ethical reasons, they are not as involved in the investigation process as most of the people in the investigation team but they still play a vital role. The police deal with most contact with the public such as taking statements and questioning suspects of the crime. However, there are different people in the police who deal with different parts of the investigation, for example there will be a media team who will deal with the media, there will be a house to house team who will go around taking statements and finding information about the area the crime had taken place in as well as people who interrogate suspects of the crime, to name a few. If the police attend a different investigation then their roles and responsibilities may change as they are needed to do different things in different investigations, such as in the case of an armed robbery it would be the polices job and responsibility to make sure everyone who was at the scene is safe and get the proper care they need.


OJ Simpson:

In the OJ Simpson case where he allegedly killed Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman the police did not play as big of a part as they usually would in an investigation. Usually in an investigation the police would inquire the people in the area where the crime had took place, set up an incident room and regularly question suspects but due to this being such a high profile case it was left mostly to detectives and specialists such as Henry Lee (who was the forensic scientist). The biggest part the police played in the case was arriving at the scene and securing the perimeter so that there was no chance of anyone being able to reach the scene accept people who where meant to be there. The two officers who were set with this task and they where the first attending officer Robert Riske and Miguel Terrazas, they where meant to place crime scene tape around the house and stop anyone from being able to enter the property, this was poorly done as shortly after the media arrived and made their way to the house to take photographs of the scene, to try to stop the media the officers started placing towels over the bodies of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman which resulted in any evidence on the bodies being completely contaminated.