Methods Of Investigations

Question 0

What is an example of intangible evidence?

Answer 0

A witness statement

Question 1

What are the two categories of evidence?

Answer 1

Tangible and intangible

Question 2

What is real evidence?

Answer 2

Evidence that speaks for itself

Question 3

What is an example of real evidence?

Answer 3

Fingerprints, a gun, a tire print

Question 4

What are the two basic rules of handling evidence?

Answer 4

1) Photograph and sketch crime scene before moving articles

2) Restrict handling to absolute minimum number of persons to shorten chain of evidence

Question 5

What are the four rules of marking evidence?

Answer 5

1) Avoid obliterating evidence while marking
2) Use a distinctive mark where possible
3) Should include date evidence secured and location from where taken
4) Mark should be on item itself where possible

Question 6

Before packing for shipment to a faraway lab, allow bloodstains to what?

Answer 6

Dry

Question 7

Where should all suspected body fluid stains be submitted?

Answer 7

To laboratory

Question 8

Articles of suspect and victim should not what?

Answer 8

Contact each other

Question 9

In obtaining known specimens of hair from victim and/or suspect, you should submit at least how many hairs from various areas of the head?

Answer 9

50

Question 10

Why should you never place loose fibers in a mailing envelope?

Answer 10

Because they are difficult to locate, and paper from which most envelopes are made contains fiber

Question 11

What should be done in the case of headlights?

Answer 11

All glass remaining in the shell should be recovered

Question 12

If soil is firmly attached to some object, what should be sent to the lab?

Answer 12

The object itself

Question 13

What should be used to scrape paint samples off?

Answer 13

A clean knife blade

Question 14

How should volatile liquids be handled?

Answer 14

They should be poured into a clean glass bottle and sealed tightly

Question 15

Where should bullets be marked?

Answer 15

On the base

Question 16

Where should cartridge cases be marked?

Answer 16

On the inside of the open end

Question 17

Where should unfired ammunition be marked?

Answer 17

On the side of the cartridge case near the end of the bullet

Question 18

How should a question document be put into evidence?

Answer 18

It should be sealed plastic or cellophane envelope

Question 19

How should charred documents be placed into evidence?

Answer 19

They should be placed on top of loose cotton in a box and hand-delivered to the lab

Question 20

What are the two methods of gathering information for people?

Answer 20

Interviews and interrogations

Question 21

The questioning of a person who has or is believed to have information of relevant interest to the investigation

Answer 21

Interview

Question 22

The questioning of a person suspected of having committed an offense, or a person who is reluctant to fully disclose information pertaining to the investigation

Answer 22

Interrogation or confrontational interview

Question 23

The investigator may start with what then shift into what?

Answer 23

They may start with an interview and then shift into a confrontational interview

Question 24

In an investigative interview, You should gain information to establish what?

Answer 24

The facts of an incident or recording

Question 25

In an investigative interview, What should be verified?

Answer 25

Information received from other sources

Question 26

In an investigative interview, Who should be identified? 1) 2)

Answer 26

1) Additional witnesses | 2) Persons responsible for the event and/or accomplices

Question 27

In an investigative interview, What should be secured?

Answer 27

Additional evidence

Question 28

In an investigative interview, Background information on what should be developed?

Answer 28

The specifics of the event or offense

Question 29

In an investigative interview, What should be eliminated?

Answer 29

Suspects

Question 30

In an investigative interview, What should be discovered?

Answer 30

Details of other offenses

Question 31

In an interview, What are the two stipulations regarding subject's statements?

Answer 31

They must be free and voluntary

Question 32

The interview must be conducted in what kind of a manner?

Answer 32

A manner in which an objective third-party to the interview is there

Question 33

In an interview, party is free to what?

Answer 33

Leave

Question 34

In an interview, you should position the interviewee how?

Answer 34

Within the confines of the interview area

Question 35

How many people should conduct an interview, and why?

Answer 35

No more than two, so they don't intimidate the interviewee

Question 36

What needs to be considered regarding the interviewee personally?

Answer 36

Background, intelligence, education, biases, emotional state, medical condition

Question 37

How should you communicate with the interviewee?

Answer 37

On a level that he/she can understand

Question 38

What kind of physical activity should you pay attention to in your interviewee?

Answer 38

Fidgeting, nailbiting, foot or finger tapping

Question 39

What kind of physiological activity should you keep an eye out for with your interviewee?

Answer 39

Eye blinking, dry mouth, perspiration

Question 40

When an interviewee is reluctant to talk, what might this indicate?

Answer 40

The need to protect himself/herself or others

Question 41

Responsiveness to certain questions may offer an indication of an interviewee's need to what?

Answer 41

Relieve himself/herself of guilt

Question 42

An interviewee's responsiveness to certain questions may offer other motives for what?

Answer 42

Providing information

Question 43

What are the six techniques of the investigator?

Answer 43

1) Establish a good rapport 2) Maintain eye contact 3) Do not jump to conclusions, maintain an open-mindedness 4) Listen attentively 5) Be perceptive to every comment 6) Maintain control of the interview

Question 44

What kind of question should an investigator ask?

Answer 44

Open ended

Question 45

As an investigator, silence can be used as a method of what?

Answer 45

Soliciting a response from the interviewee

Question 46

How should you have the interviewee describe the events?

Answer 46

As a chronology, starting from the beginning of the incident

Question 47

How should you test the truthfulness of the interviewee's responses?

Answer 47

By asking questions to which you already know the answers

Question 48

How should the investigator describe the incident or inquiry to the interviewee?

Answer 48

As very serious

Question 49

Request the interviewee to _____ his/her version of the events

Answer 49

Repeat

Question 50

When appropriate, _____ the interviewee with certain information that you have gathered during the course of your investigation

Answer 50

Confront

Question 51

Maintain _____ | Be ____ and _____

Answer 51

Maintain control | Be aggressive and fair

Question 52

What are the three forms a written statement may be?

Answer 52

1. Narrative 2. Question and answer 3. Combination

Question 53

What are the two techniques most commonly used during an interrogation?

Answer 53

1. Sympathetic | 2. Logic and reasoning

Question 54

What are the two main approaches used with interrogation?

Answer 54

Direct and indirect

Question 55

What is an indirect approach?

Answer 55

Exploratory in nature

Question 56

What is a direct approach?

Answer 56

Normally used to interrogate a suspect whose guilt is reasonably certain

Question 57

What are the two best known types of devices to detect deception?

Answer 57

1. Polygraph | 2. Psychological stress evaluation

Question 58

What are the four changes the polygraph records?

Answer 58

1. Respiration 2. Blood pressure 3. Pulse 4. Skin's sensitivity to electricity

Question 59

According to the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988, the polygraph may be used in the workplace if Employer is using polygraphs to assist in what?

Answer 59

Their ongoing investigation of certain kinds of workplace crimes

Question 60

According to the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988, the polygraph may be used for pre-employment if The employer engages in providing certain kinds of what?

Answer 60

Security services

Question 61

According to the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988, the polygraph may be used in the workplace if The employer engages in manufacturing, distribution or dispensing of certain kinds of what?

Answer 61

Controlled drugs

Question 62

Polygraph examination is only as good as what?

Answer 62

The examiner

Question 63

What are the three key points regarding the psychological stress evaluation test?

Answer 63

1. Does not require body attachment 2. Records and analyzes stress-related components of the human voice 3. Maybe used with or without the knowledge of the individual being tested

Question 64

The process of observing persons, places, or activities during the course of investigation

Answer 64

Surveillance

Question 65

Surveillance can be either what or what?

Answer 65

Covert or overt

Question 66

Results of a surveillance may be admitted into evidence in accordance with what?

Answer 66

Regular rules or evidence

Question 67

What is the most difficult type of surveillance?

Answer 67

Moving surveillance

Question 68

What are the two basic forms of surveillance?

Answer 68

1. Physical surveillance | 2. Technical surveillance

Question 69

How is physical surveillance performed?

Answer 69

By humans

Question 70

How is technical surveillance performed?

Answer 70

By technical and electronic equipment

Question 71

What are the three kinds of moving surveillance?

Answer 71

1. Keep subject under observation regardless of whether you are made 2. Discreet surveillance (Discontinued as needed to keep from being made) 3. Keep subject under observation at all times and do not get made

Question 72

How should surveillance logs be treated?

Answer 72

Should be maintained and may be introduced into evidence

Question 73

Surveillance is or is not expensive?

Answer 73

Is expensive

Question 74

What are two other phrases for electronic surveillance?

Answer 74

Bugging or wiretapping