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all right so here on this tobacco university video we're gonna be looking at the chain of custody and how this relates to crime scene in the processing and handling of evidence so first of all what is the chain of custody well chain of custody is a record a recorded list of all persons who come in possession of an item of evidence so the goal is to maintain a document that includes exactly what happened to the evidence from the time it was found to the time it is presented in court anyone that goes to see it and when that gets passed on that chain of custody that chain that's you're able to follow a paper trail of where the evidence went now the requirements of the chain of custody here we want to have the list of evidence including the item number and a brief description this identifies the location the item was stored the date and time of all transfers that may have occurred signature from the individual releasing the evidence to another individual or location the signature of the in