It's the guy who's trained on how to collect evidence - dust for prints, take pictures of crime scenes, swab blood samples - but doesn't have the forensics know-how to do the lab work and process all the data collected.
Why would one of these have a van with flashy lights and "evidence technician" written on the side? Wouldn't you expect the van to say "forensics" or something so that her seniors could drive it, too?
Maybe only evidence technicians ever use the van. Sometimes you'll have a few units serving an entire metropolitan area, rather than being divided up by departments as other jobs in the police department. are. Sometimes they're not even cops, just city employees of the police department, or even contractors.
Of course, my answer is filtered through what gets referred to as MAS: Male Answer Syndrome.
A little web searching would indicate that "evidence technician" is basically just a contraction of "Forensic Evidence Technician" or sometimes "Crime Scene Evidence Technician". But basically, it's the forensics field guys of all stripes.
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A little web searching would indicate that "evidence technician" is basically just a contraction of "Forensic Evidence Technician" or sometimes "Crime Scene Evidence Technician". But basically, it's the forensics field guys of all stripes.
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