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 Kilgore Police Department received a $2,700 grant from the Texas Association of Property and Evidence Inventory Technicians to purchase a bar-coding system to track evidence and maintain complete chainof custody records. Angela Burch, KPD property and evidence officer, right, accepted the grant on behalf of the department during a recent TAPEIT convention in Corpus Christi. KPD Captain Randy Hancock, left, and Burch said the new system will be a great asset in Photo by Brenda Brown cataloging evidence in KPD's property room, constructed two years ago in order to centralize evidence and property then located in seven different rooms and storage buildings. Officer Burch said TAPEIT, formed 10 years ago, promotes professional education, laws, rules and guidelines for maintaining the integrity, chain of custody and disposal of property and evidence. |
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