Property and Evidence

Personnel assigned to Property and Evidence are responsible for the intake, management, control, and disposal of all property received by the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office.

Their duties include…

• Collecting items of evidence and processing latent impressions at crimes scenes and in the laboratory; creating photographs of evidence at crime scenes, at autopsies, and in the laboratory; comparing latent fingerprints to prints on file for identification purposes; and providing expert testimony in court. The Bureau transports items of evidence to the Arizona Department of Public Safety Crime Laboratories for examination of controlled substances and other chemical substances, blood alcohol analysis, toxicology analysis, and firearms examination
• Maintaining evidence, tracking found/stored property in such a manner that the items are secured from theft, loss, or contamination, and can be retrieved in a timely manner
• Maintaining reports of all actions associated with chain-of-custody
• Ensuring the timely destruction of found and safekeeping property, and researching and authorizing the destruction or release of recovered/seized property
• Receiving and processing court-ordered releases of evidence/property
• Ensuring the timely and legal, correct notification of owners for found property