Recovery Team
• Collect evidence : bodies and body parts, personal property & record the findings accurately
• Requires accurate mapping:– photographic aerial overview/GPS mapping
• Body numbering:– by Interpol guidelines – be applied by all teams to avoid errors and creation of even more
chaos. – International country telephone code, site number & body number
as applied in the Tsunami disaster (ex. 32-1-00596) – has to stay with the body during the subsequent stages of the
identification process and will be visible on all related documentation (forms, photographs)
Identification Centre
• handles & compares AM & PM documents forwarded from the AM & PM Units → final judgment must be made by professional experts & be based on personal evaluation of the evidence → verified by the different experts on the Reconciliation Board
• Results obtained from the specialized sections are fed back to the Identification Files Section to be combined into one master list of results
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