today we're at the albuquerque police
metropolitan forensic science center
this is the evidence unit my name is
michael sullivan
i'm the supervisor of this section
we pick up evidence in 16 different
locations spread out throughout the
albuquerque and bernalillo county
metropolitan area this is the evidence
intake area
all the evidence that comes in here is
sorted by type
and it gets disseminated out into
the different locations that it's going
to be stored in
there's several items that we don't
store in regular locations those are
high risk items
that would be items like cash and
jewelry
drugs and guns those are all stored in
walk-in vaults where they're segregated
from all the rest of the evidence
this section everything is either
safekeeping
found or it's tagged to be destroyed by
state statute we have to keep
every anything we take in if it's
unclaimed we have to keep it for a
minimum of 90 days
a new process we have here is
any electronic device like a cell phone
or a
tablet type of computer we're required
to put it in
a faraday bag which is a bag that will
prevent a signal being sent to the phone
or the device
so that ain't no data can be deleted
from it
our department makes copies of audio
tape videotape
and lapel videos before we're allowed to
make a copy
for anyone we need to have an
authorization from
the district attorney the city attorney
or kurt services the next area is the
gun
office is our name for it this is where
detectives and technicians will work
processing guns that are in the process
of being prepared to be
destroyed
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