Introduction
Photographic Bureau in the state is attached to the Police Head Quarters, This Division is headed by the Chief Photographer. This Bureau is having Units functioning in all District and City Police Offices, and in the headquarters of F.S.L and CBCID.
Evidential value
The Photographic Bureau shall function on & lsquoround-the-clock basis and its staff, in rotation, shall always be available to attend any call, be it routine or emergent, so that the division would attend the task of taking photographs/videos having evidential value on time.
The staff of this Bureau Photographing Scene of Crime, forensic evidence like finger prints, hair, blood stains and other valuable pieces of evidence for the purpose of establishing genuineness of such pieces of evidence that the same were found & collected from the very scene of crime involved in the case concerned, and photographing the process of Inquests conducted in Merger & Unnatural death cases, and photographing and video-recording all the functions conducted under the aegis of Police Department.
In addition to the above, the staff of this Division Video-recording the process of registering statements given by the victim before the Magistrate under section 164 Cr. PC, process of post-mortem examinations conducted in respect of deaths in Police custody and in Jails and the process of 'Exhumation' & conducted in the presence of the Executive Magistrate following direction of the Court, in suspicious death cases.
Memory card used for video-recording shall be handed over to the Officer-in-Charge concerned after sealing the same along with certificate, once the process of video recording is over, and receipt of the same shall be collected from the Officer to whom the Memory Card was issued, and be kept in Office.
Entire process of post-mortem examination conducted in the case of deaths in police action, shall be photographed and video recorded. The aim of video recording and photographing post-mortem examination should be:-
At the time of video recording the post-mortem examination the voice of the doctor conducting the post-mortem should be recorded. The doctor should narrate his prima-face observations while conducting the post-mortem examinations.