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