Evidence / Seized Property
Police routinely seize property and evidence at crime scenes, which is critical to bringing criminals to justice. Defense attorneys have become skilled at brining into doubt the chain-of-custody and tracking procedures used by Police in controlling access to such evidence.
Most property or evidence is assigned an identification #, and is placed in a container and/or on a shelf / bin location. Bar coding has been 'best practice' for tagging and tracking assets, but, with bar coding it is scanning one item or location at a time from close proximity.
With RFID, property and evidence can be rapidly inventoried and missing items found with a portable radio wave scanner. Choke point detection zones keep real-time track of property and evidence at receipt, removal or movement.