Performance Audit of USCP Controls Over Evidence

The United States Capitol Police (USCP or the Department) maintains a Crime Scene Search (CSS) Unit, which is responsible for collecting, receiving, identifying, processing, documenting, preserving, securing, transferring, and disposing of physical evidence obtained from crime scenes within the jurisdiction of the USCP.  At the request of the Chief of Police, the Office of inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit of controls over evidence because the CSS unit mixed physical evidence from multiple cases.