Field Show Up Admonition

1. When conducting a field identification, officers must make sure that witnesses or victims view suspects separately. The witnesses were victims should not discuss the case with each other, or indicate whether they have identified a suspect.
2. Officer should advise victims or witnesses of the following information just prior to their viewing of a suspect.
   • You were under no obligation to identify this person as a suspect. We want to have guilty persons identified, but we also want to make sure that innocent persons are cleared of any suspicion in this matter.
   • You should not draw any conclusions about a person just because he/she is in our custody, or handcuffed.