Integrity and Ethical Decision Making
This topic covers professional integrity, ethical judgment, and accountability when working with forensic evidence or other high sensitivity materials. Interviewers will evaluate your commitment to evidence integrity, accuracy, confidentiality, impartiality, and legal and procedural compliance. Candidates should be ready to describe concrete situations in which they prioritized rigor over expedience, resisted pressure to reach predetermined conclusions, maintained chain of custody and secure handling of sensitive data, or escalated concerns about possible misconduct or errors. Explain your process for preventing, detecting, and correcting mistakes including documentation practices, quality control steps, peer review, root cause analysis, and corrective actions. Discuss how you assess and communicate uncertainty and limitations, how you avoid bias and conflicts of interest, and how you balance timeliness with the need for reliable results. Demonstrate an ethical framework such as professional codes of conduct, organizational policies, or legal requirements, and be prepared to describe lessons learned and process improvements you instituted to strengthen integrity.
