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How to Select the Right Locker for Your Needs

Evidence continuity is of supreme importance to law enforcement agencies which know they need reliable temporary evidence lockers in order to establish the "chain of custody" for a piece of evidence to be admissible in court.

But identifying the correct requirements and criteria for your temporary evidence storage means much more than picking out a color and a handle type.

It's important to consider every aspect of how your department handles evidence -when evidence must be temporarily stored until the property officer can process it.

Here's a good list of questions to get the process started:

What types of evidence could you conceivably store? Long guns take up more space than handguns. Is there paper evidence that will need temporary storage? Drugs? Consider if options such as drop slots for evidence envelopes are needed. What about evidence requiring a temperature controlled, refrigerated environment such as blood specimens and rape kits? Make sure you have the right range of locker sizes to accommodate the evidence you might need to store.

A special note about refrigerated evidence lockers: it's vital the evidence is useable and admissible. Make sure the refrigerator you choose does not contaminate cardboard containers and removes the moisture normally associated with refrigeration.

What space is available for the lockers? Are there special architectural details to work around? Do you require pass-through or non pass-through lockers?

Regardless of the size and number of lockers you need, there are important security features that all temporary evidence lockers should have:

  • Slam-shut latches
  • Spring loaded door hinges
  • Heavy duty 16 gauge cold rolled steel construction
  • Heavy duty 14 gauge continuous hinges


Tiffin Metal, the manufacturer of Sentinel Security Lockers, specializes in the manufacture, sales and support of temporary evidence storage.
Contact us now to find the right evidence lockers for your needs.
 

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