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BrassMonkey wrote:Of course you begin a written chain of custody with that handoff since you disarmed him/touched it/took possesion of the firearm right? Would this be any different than if legal porescription drugs were taken off of him? personal property, such as an expensive watch?

grandpatim wrote:In the service where I work we give the weapon to the police or sheriff deputies on scene. If none are there we place it in the lock box where we keep our narcotics until we can give it to the LEO's.

We document it in our run report and we write up an incident report where we found the weapon, where we put it and who we finally gave it to. Personal possesions are put on a form that we use specifically for that purpose. If money is in a wallet we give it to the hospital personel and count it together. We don't ussually have time on scene to document because if the patient is bad enough not to keep his wallet, watch, etc. then we don't need to be dilly dallying on scene. Weapons though always get given to LEO's on scene or placed in the lock box no matter what condition the patient is in.

In the service where I work we give the weapon to the police or sheriff deputies on scene. If none are there we place it in the lock box where we keep our narcotics until we can give it to the LEO's.