Thread: Body Tents - Disposable or Reusable?

Do SOCO's/CSI's use disposable body tents or reusable tents

I heard they use reusable but surely that could lead to a DNA contaminated scene

We always reused ours. DNA is everywhere, the potential for contamination is most likely all of the people milling around looking for evidence. You just wash down the canopy with bleach, very little DNA will fly off and onto something of value, certainly not enough to show up in a test.

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