2.1.9
Protection of Documentation.................................................. 37
2.2 Planning and Preparation of Information-Gathering ................ 38
2.2.1
Risk Assessment ...................................................................... 38
2.2.2
Security Measures ................................................................... 42
3.
2.2.3
Determining the Trustworthiness of Other Actors ................. 45
2.2.4
Training and Accountability of Team Members ..................... 48
2.2.5
Interpreters and Intermediaries.............................................. 49
2.2.6
Logistics of Documentation .................................................... 55
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION ........................................................... 59
3.1 Documentary Information............................................................. 59
3.1.1
Hard Copy Documentation ..................................................... 59
3.1.2
Digital Information ................................................................. 67
3.1.3
Producing Photographic and Video Images .......................... 73
3.2 Documenting and Recording a Crime Scene ............................... 77
3.2.1
In Principle, Refrain From Any Investigations ...................... 77
3.2.2
Securing a Crime Scene .......................................................... 78
3.2.3
Observing and Recording a Crime Scene .............................. 80
3.3 Forensic Information ..................................................................... 82
3.3.1
Documenting Physical Injury ................................................. 83
3.3.2
Collecting Forensic Information of Sexual and Gender-Based
Violence .................................................................................. 86
3.3.3
3.3.4
Human Bodies ......................................................................... 86
Artifacts ................................................................................... 90
3.4 Documenting Information From Victims and Witnesses ........... 94
3.4.1
Guidelines for Conducting an Interview ................................ 95
3.4.2
Documenting Information on Psychological Injury ............. 105
3.5 Documenting Sexual and Gender-Based Violence .................... 107
3.6 Documenting Information from Minors .................................... 112
4. MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION ...................................................... 114
4.1 Verifying Information .................................................................. 114
4.2 Indexing, Cataloguing, and Storing Information...................... 118
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