Isuzu D-MAX Survey Vehicle

Scene investigation is a documentation discipline, and documentation needs order. When the equipment is loose in a load bed, an investigator spends the first ten minutes at a scene looking for the camera, the markers and the measuring kit. Cabinets that hold each item in a fixed place cut that down to seconds and make it obvious when something has been left behind.

The layout separates wet and dry, clean and contaminated. Evidence boxes sit in a compartment that can be wiped out, survey instruments in a dry drawer, and cones and reels on an external carrier so mud does not come into the working area. The tailgate doubles as a work surface with a cutting mat and a measuring scale.

Night work is the normal case, not the exception. Scene lighting runs from the vehicle with a rechargeable set for areas the vehicle cannot reach, and the interior lighting is bright enough to write by without lighting up the whole street.