National Certified Investigator And Inspector Training (NCIT) Practice Test

On-scene crime scene processing is about the tasks you perform at the scene to preserve integrity and document what’s there. The five general stages taught in NCIT focus on actions conducted at the scene: scene size-up to assess safety and conditions, documentation to record findings, evidence collection to gather items, preservation and transport to maintain chain of custody, and a final assessment or reconstruction to understand how events unfolded. Evidence analysis, meanwhile, is the interpretive work done after evidence has been collected and is in the lab or controlled setting. It requires laboratory methods and equipment, not on-scene procedures. So it doesn’t fit as one of the on-scene stages, which is why it’s the correct choice as the thing that is NOT one of the five general stages.