6-8 ARSON- DEATH INVOLVED



HOMICIDE BUREAU

DETECTIVE DIVISION

BUREAU ORDERS

 

Bureau Order Number:  6-8

Subject:  ARSON – DEATH INVOLVED

Effective Date:

09/01/1995

Last Date Revised:

04/30/2021

Last Date Reviewed:

04/30/2021

Next Review Date:

04/30/2022


Special Enforcement Bureau Arson Explosives Detail (AED) investigates all fires where deaths occur, as a joint assignment with Homicide Bureau.  Arson investigators shall be dispatched to the crime scene concurrent with the Homicide investigators.

If Homicide Bureau is called in by an outside jurisdiction because of a fire or explosion death, AED shall also be notified.  The AED investigators shall be the notified and dispatched whether or not the outside jurisdiction has other arson investigators at the scene.