How to Ensure Your Chain of Custody is Bulletproof

Maintaining an unbroken chain of custody can be challenging, but it’s critical to ensuring that your department’s evidence remains admissible. Poor evidence management can lose cases and damage your department’s reputation. Thankfully, it can be easy to start tracking physical evidence as it makes the rounds from person to person—if you rely on an evidence management system such as PMI Evidence Tracker™.

By using our evidence management system, law enforcement agencies can now guarantee that there has been no mishandling or tampering of their evidence. To learn more about our system and how it works, read the information below.

What Is PMI Evidence Tracker™?

PMI Evidence Tracker™ is a complete evidence management system featuring our easy-to-use, yet robust, evidence tracking software. Some of the outstanding features of our software include:

• Modern user interface, featuring an easily customizable evidence screen
• Impressive data storage using SQL server
• Evidence and asset modules
• Site licenses for a minimum of 2 users
• Three levels of security
• Detailed activity log
• Import, backup, and restore functions
• Free technical support including software updates

In addition, the complete evidence management system features a barcode scanner, barcode printer, ribbon, evidence labels, and shelf labels. You can also print your evidence and shelf labels directly from the program.

Bulletproofing Your Chain of Custody

PMI Evidence Tracker™ helps your department bulletproof its chain of custody by providing you with a way to guarantee that it remains unbroken. With our system, evidence is checked in and checked out simply by scanning its barcode, and the system automatically creates a log entry each time. The system can also show you a history log of who handled a piece of evidence—and this information can be downloaded as a spreadsheet file for easy printing and presentation, in case you have to prove the item’s authenticity. By using our evidence tracking software, you can ensure that every investigation goes as smoothly as possible, and that evidence can be taken to court without any complications.

Reliable Evidence Tracking Software

Handling evidence carefully is essential to make sure you don’t let criminals walk free. To ensure that your evidence is completely admissible in a court of law, rely on PMI Evidence Tracker™. Our system is designed by Cops for Cops, to be user-friendly yet full-featured. We offer our systems for managing evidence and assets to law enforcement agencies nationwide. To learn more about our software’s capabilities and how it can benefit your department, contact us today.