Whenever there is a police shooting and someone is killed. When a policeman or policewoman shoots someone in the line of duty. Is it handled like murder investigation. OR Is there any investigation at all if its justified OR is there just a police integrity investigation. As far as i know they dont have a license to kill so i assume some investigation happens, assuming its not to clear their name but just to find out what exactly happened.|||My city in my state others may vary.
Any time an police officer shoots at someone (uses deadly force), whether the person is just hit, killed or not even injured there is a very full investigation by a number of groups.
My department sends out homicide detectives. They do most of the investigation, gathering of witnesses and coordination of evidence gathering. Then a representative of the department chief, an investigator and supervisor from the civilian police review board, an investigator from the police internal affairs division, a county prosecutor, the officer's commander, his watch commander and field lieutenant (who has done a separate street investigation) and the commander of the homicide unit all get together. The officer(s) and witnesses and often the person who was being shot at, give their statements and are questioned by anyone on the panel. The investigation is reviewed by the panel and a preliminary decision (pending analysis of physical evidence by the crime lab) is made.
The decision on whether to take the case to a grand jury or to charge and officer or to consider the shooting justifiable belongs to the prosecutor (by law). Any of the others can bring internal charges up against the officer for wrong doing.|||Yes. The internal affairs department of the police gets involved and I believe the officer has to immediately hand in his gun till the investigation is over. Even if the cop had all the right to shoot the person there will still be an investigation in a shooting where someone is killed.
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