English to Spanish Art/Literary Poetry & Literature novela policiaca

But in this case, procedures had involved smashing down the doors and flooding the place with water, then sending in firefighters in big boots to trample the sodden evidence. Well, the principles still applied. As long as compromises were recorded and reasons given

No entiendo todo el párrafo. No doy más contexto para no cansaros. "compromises "... ¿No se podría referir a la obligación de la policía científica de no comprometer/alterar las muestras de una escena del crimen?
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