What is the difference between Crime scene investigator and crime scene technician?
An ‘investigator’ implies that the person is a detective – a sworn law enforcement officer – who will handle the investigation of the entire offense from beginning to end. A’crime scene technician’ is a specialist whose duties it is to gather the evidence at the scene of the offense and preserve it in such a way as to make it useable as evidence. The ‘technician’ may, or may not, be a sworn officer.
