Handbook on Criminal Investigation in Pakistan

Description

This Handbook has been prepared as a practical guide to investigators in a variety of situations. It covers all the major aspects of criminal investigation ordinarily undertaken by Police officers in Pakistan. These include the initiation of an investigation, visiting the crime scene, managing the crime scene and gathering evidence from it, ensuring medical examinations or post-mortems, obtaining witness statements, conducting searches, making arrests, applying for remand of suspects, interrogating suspects, recording confessions, undertaking identification parades, analyzing all types of evidence, preparing key documentation especially the final police report, engaging with prosecutors, among numerous other issues.

The Handbook is structured upon self-contained chapters for ease of reference.