Incident rooms

[vison]

At our house we are fond of British mysteries. Midsomer Murders, Morse, etc. We are puzzled by this: it seems when a murder is committed and the police get involved, the investigating officers set up an "incident room" near the murder scene. Maybe in a hall, or school, something like that. They haul computers to this room, and set up their desks, etc., and it seems so weird to me. Why? Does this really happen? Wouldn't it just make more sense to keep operating out of their actual building? I know the Brits like to imagine that they live in a Big Country, where it takes up to an hour to drive from one place to another . . . . is that the reason?

[CRSP]

Incident rooms are real, although I'm not sure how often they're set up "in the field", as opposed to just inside a police station. They're basically for keeping everyone who is working on the case in the same locality, for convenience's sake.

[vison]

I see. The police officers involved are not doing anything else? All their other work is dropped while they're working on this one?

[Glazer]

Why not use an Incident Response Mobile Headquarters Unit.

[vison]

Cool.

[Clayton_e]

Yes, its cool.. But I want to know how many cup holders that thing's got before I go shell out the big bucks for one.

[Glazer]

It's got plenty of cup holders. Cops practically live of coffee. So I'm sure it comes with a full coffee bar and microwave for the doughnuts.