The lead Venue Agency has the responsibility for making press releases about the incident and its investigation for the first 48 hours.
Officers in close contact with the Team are in the best position to comment about the facts of the case and the progress of the investigation.
The Employer Agency.
If the Employer Agency is not also the Venue Agency, fewer problems will arise, especially at the early stages of the investigation. If the Employer Agency limits its comments to the following areas.
The employer-employee relationship.
Factual material revealed by the Employer Agency’s own Administrative Investigation of the Incident.
Information which has been cleared for release by the Team.
The Criminalistics Laboratory
Information released will usually be confined to general laboratory procedures, scientific facts and principles, and testing procedures. Specific results of searching, testing and analysis will generally not be released without clearance from an investigator from the Team.
The Medical Examiner’s Office
Release of information will generally be limited to the following:
Autopsy findings, including the condition of the deceased, the cause of death, and toxicology test results, after the involved agencies have received this information;
The identity of those present at the autopsy, including the