As a forensic supervisor, you play a critical role in ensuring that your team’s evidence collected is accurate, reliable, and admissible in court. Tracking all your stats is one way to improve your unit’s performance.
This blog post breaks down the primary reasons you should track your stats and how it can help your team.
Proving Situations without Emotion
One of the main benefits of tracking your stats is that it allows you to assess your unit’s performance and identify areas for improvement. By monitoring your stats, you can identify patterns and trends in your work, which can help you spot areas where you may need additional training or support.
When giving performance reviews it takes the emotion out of it. It says, look, no matter our personal feelings about each other, here’s the data that shows we need to improve.
Process Problems!
Tracking your stats can also help you to identify potential problems with the unit’s process. Hello, SOPs, we meet again! No more assumptions about why things always go wrong or specific tasks never get done.
By monitoring your stats, you can identify patterns that may indicate issues with the evidence-collection process or the accuracy of the analysis. This can help you take corrective action to ensure the evidence you collect is of the highest quality.
Improving Communication Across Platforms
Alright, another benefit of tracking your stats is that it can help you improve communication with other members of the criminal justice system.
You can provide detailed reports to judges and attorneys by monitoring your stats. Which, can help everyone understand the forensic evidence being presented.
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Use it in Court
Tracking your stats can help you defend your work in court. By having detailed statistics on your performance, you can provide evidence to support the admissibility of your evidence in court. This helps ensure that your collected evidence is used to achieve justice fairly and transparently.
You can also back up your team with process stats or logs. If your team’s competency or procedures or ever questioned. You’ve got the stats to prove you’re on it as their leader.
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