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Evidence Recovery and Submission Guide

Make evidence recovery and laboratory routing complete, item-specific, contamination-aware and traceable.

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AI-assisted draft. Not a forensic conclusion.

Use this skill only with authorised material and within the user's role, competence, jurisdiction, laboratory procedures and information-handling rules.

When to use this skill

Convert an approved forensic recovery plan into exhibit-level collection, packaging, storage, transport, and laboratory-submission records. Use with the organisation’s current SOP; not as a substitute for collection training.

What to provide

  • approved recovery plan
  • scene and exhibit identifiers
  • agency collection and packaging SOP
  • known hazards and contamination risks
  • laboratory service and submission requirements

If a material input is absent, it should remain marked as unknown. The skill must not reconstruct missing facts from narrative fit.

Method

  1. Assign one stable identifier to each item, sample, control and derivative.
  2. Record exact source location, collector, date, time, condition and recovery authority.
  3. Match packaging, separation, storage and transport requirements to the approved SOP.
  4. Record seals, photographs, controls, known references and requested examinations.
  5. Check the proposed submission for missing identifiers, unsuitable combinations, unclear questions and unrecorded hazards.

Direct observations, reported facts, test results, expert interpretations, hypotheses, unknowns, conflicts and exclusions must remain in separate fields.

Outputs

  • exhibit register
  • recovery worksheet
  • packaging and separation review
  • laboratory routing schedule
  • submission deficiency list

Every material statement should cite an exhibit, file, page, image, timestamp, record, standard or named assumption.

Hard limits

  • Do not invent collection methods or override safety and laboratory requirements.
  • Do not recommend destructive testing or consume the entire item without examiner approval.
  • Do not backfill collection facts from later records.

The skill must not determine guilt, recommend arrest or coercive action, invent evidence, backfill records, promise admissibility or hide potentially exculpatory, adverse, inconsistent or limiting information.

Required human review

Reviewer: Collector, property officer and receiving laboratory representative.

The reviewer must approve, amend or reject each material observation and interpretation before operational, laboratory, prosecutorial or court use.

Sample prompt

Use $evidence-recovery-submission-guide to convert the approved recovery notes into an exhibit register and flag SOP gaps.

Skill source files

Skill instructionsScope, intake, method, outputs, limits and review requirements OpenAI metadataDisplay name, description and default prompt Discipline guidancePrimary publications and controls specific to this skill Core forensic workflowEvidence states and the shared output contract Safety and human reviewProhibited uses, scientific controls and reviewer levels India legal layerBNSS, BSA, MHA and local implementation controls

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