Fundamentals of Investigation and Intelligence

This is the questioning of a person suspected of having committed an offense.

• Interview
• Information
• Interrogation

Physical evidence can be obtained in a computer used by the perpetrator in committing the crime.

• True
• False

After all information have been given by the subject, that is the time for the investigator to ask question to clarify about the case under investigation.

• Inquiry

Positive attitude is one of the techniques in controlling digression.

• True
• False

Investigators hold valuable information on recurring crime problems and could occupy a central role in developing creative responses to stop the next crime.

• True
• False

The second phase of criminal investigation is the preliminary investigation.

• True
• False

The miranda warning also know as the miranda rights (miranda doctrine) is optional in arresting individual guilty of a criminal offense.

• True
• False

Investigation is a systematic, minute, and thorough attempt to learn the facts about something complex or hidden;it is often formal and official.

• True
• False

Any extrajudicial confession made by a person arrested, detained or under custodial investigation shall be admissible as evidence.

• True
• False

Investigation is a method of getting vital information, facts, circumstances and evidence for the purpose of knowing the truth.

• True
• False

Logical approach is based on reason.

• True
• False

Goldstein (1979) argued that police departments were much too focused on how they were organized to do their work rather than on the crime problems they needed to solve.

• True
• False

It is good to get the positive feeling of the subject towards the investigator, such friendly atmosphere is as vital for both the subject and the investigator to have a better interaction.

• Rapport

Technology, and other scientific methods have been integrated in investigation for the solution of crimes.

• True
• False

Any person detained or under custodial investigation shall and should defend himself.

• True
• False

The method of investigating a criminal offense is different when a police office investigates a civil crime.

• True
• False

NBI clearance is a type of local agency check.

• True
• False

This refers to a person tasked to carry out the objectives of criminal investigation such as to identify and locate the guilty and provide evidence of his guilt.

• Criminal Investigator

All custodial investigation report shall be read and explained to the arrested individual in Filipino since it is the national language in the Philippines.

• True
• False

What is the purpose of Interrogation? (Choose all appropriate and correct answers).

• To induce the suspect to make admission
• To help the witness remember the scene of the crime
• To develop information which lead to the recovery of the fruits of the crime
• To obtain confession to the crime
• To learn the identify of the accomplice
• To discover the details of other crimes participate
• To learn facts of the crime
• To clean the crime scene and identify the witnesses that might be suspects

Investigators essentially conduct ad-hoc reactive investigations to hold offenders accountable for crimes in the hopes of generating deterrence through making arrests.

• True
• False

This is done to extract information from the witnesses to apprehend the perpetrator.

• Information
• Interview
• Interrogation

In an interview, the person questioned gives his account of an incident under his own manner and words.

• True
• False

Criminal investigator conducts covert surveillance, including the use of advanced surveillance technologies.

• True
• False

Classes of Information (Choose all appropriate and correct answers).

• Fake news
• Regular
• Grapevine
• Cultivated
• Facebook post

The custodial investigation report shall be reduced to verbal testimony.

• True
• False

Defined as knowledge acquired by criminal investigators from various sources, which could be in the form of persons, places or things.

• Information
• Interrogation
• Interview

This is not governed by rigid rules or laws but most often, it is governed by intuition, felicity of inspiration and to a minor extent by chance.

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This procedure is conducted since suspects or culprits try to misdirect investigators by giving incorrect information.

• Information
• Interrogation
• Interview

Physical evidence is evidences stored digitally or in a computer.

• True
• False

This procedure is done to disclose the identity of other accomplices of the crime.

• Information
• Interview
• Interrogation

Crime information typically originates with the perpetrator or to the suspect of a crime.

• True
• False

Emotional approach addresses such negative feelings as hate, anger, greed, revenge, pride, and jealousy.

• True
• False

Simplicity of the questions is one of the rules in questioning.

• True
• False

Cognitive interview is to the point, allowing little possibility of misinterpretation.

• True
• False

Physical evidence is any data stored or transmitted using a computer that supports or refutes a theory of how an offense occurred or that address critical elements of the offense such as intent or alibi.

• True
• False

An arrested individual shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty.

• True
• False

Digital evidence under comparison is the process through which it is determined whether or not two or more objects have a common origin.

• True
• False

The first phase of criminal investigation is the follow-up investigation.

• True
• False

The interview must be made as soon as possible when the information is still in the mind of the witness.

• True
• False

This refers to asking questions to the witnesses of crime.

• Information
• Interrogation
• Interview

Digital evidence are the collected evidence at the crime scene.

• True
• False

The second objective of criminal investigation is to recover stolen property.

• True
• False

Direct question is a bit disguised and could elicit a variety of answer.

• True
• False

According to the article 4, section 17 of the 1945 Commonwealth Constitution, in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall be presumed to be innocent until the contrary is proved.

• True
• False

This procedure is conducted to a witness who is not cooperating with the investigator by not disclosing some important piece of information which is material to the investigation.

• Interview
• Information
• Interrogation

Place and time of interview can be modified to suit the exigencies and nature of the case.

• True
• False

Privacy during interview must be observed.

• True
• False

This include a procedure conducted to accomplish the three fold aims or criminal investigation.

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One objective of criminal investigation is to assist in the prosecution of the person(s) charged with the crime.

• True
• False

Criminal investigator helps by delivering justice to crime victims.

• True
• False

One question at the time is one of the rules in questioning.

• True
• False

Everything found in the crime scene is collected and scrutinized and later will be admitted as evidence.

• Interrogation
• Information
• Interview

Prior commencement of an interview, the investigator should identify himself to the subject by name, rank, and agency.

• Identity

Extrajudicial confession made by the person arrested can be in a form or digital or analog voice recording acquired by the investigator and shall be used as evidence.

• True
• False

Five Technical Divisions (Choose all appropriate and correct answers).

• Firearms identification
• Questioned document
• Forensic photography
• Lie detection or polygraph
• Latent or fingerprint examination
• You have correctly selected 4.

He is tasked to investigate all criminal cases.

• Criminal Investigator

This is done to examine all the records and information from different witnesses.

• Interview
• Interrogation
• Information

According to Braga (2008), crime tends to cluster among a few problem places, offenders and victims.

• True
• False

Criminal investigator gain intimate knowledge of repeat victims, high-rate offenders and locations that generate a disproportionate amount of criminal incidents.

• True
• False

Witnesses turning hostile is one of the challenges in conducting this procedure.

• Interrogation
• Information
• Interview

Torture, force, violence, threat, intimidation, secret detention places, solitary, incommunicado, and among others is in violation of article 3, section 2 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution.

• True
• False

A person who committed a criminal offense and under a custodial investigation is not allowed to be visited by anyone in his counsel or family since it may affect the investigation.

• True
• False

Referred to as knowledge or data which an investigator acquired from other persons and records.

• Information
• Interrogation
• Interview

Court clearance is a type of national agency check.

• True
• False

The 3 fold aim of criminal investigation (Choose all appropriate and correct answers).

Any waiver by a person arrested or detained or under custodial investigation can be in writing or in voice recording accompanied by the investigating officer.

• True
• False

A specialist in the field of criminal investigation.

• Criminal Investigator

Barangay clearance is a type of national agency check.

• True
• False

An interview is the questioning of person who is believed to possess knowledge that is official to the investigator.

• True
• False

When the investigator reaches the crime scene, he visualize each and every object of it.

• Interview
• Interrogation
• Information

Requisites of a Valid Confession (Choose all appropriate and correct answers).

• Signed by the accused
• It must be free from any threats or coercion
• Must be in the presence of a counsel
• It must be in writing
• Must be under oath

Investigator has to listen so that no important part is skipped.

• Interview
• Interrogation
• Information

This is done to a person who is reluctant to make full disclosure of information in his possession which is pertinent to the investigation.

• Interview
• Interrogation
• Information

Digital evidence can be done by identification or comparison.

• True
• False

This require high skills to draw out each and every fact in the mind of the witness.

• Interview
• Interrogation
• Information

Also referred to as the prober.

• Criminal investigator

Detectives or other investigative personnel take numerous factors into consideration when reconstructing a case in order to determine who committed the crime and under what circumstances the crime was committed.

• True
• False

Skipping by guessing is one of the rules in questioning.

• True
• False

Criminal investigator protects, manage, and prepares witnesses for trial.

• True
• False

The investigator must indicate why the subject is being contacted.

• Opening statement

Custodial investigation is the practice of getting the person investigated when there is an opportunity from the police officer to arrest the individual.

• True
• False

The investigator has to carefully visualize and inspect the reliability of the information given by the suspect.

• Interrogation
• Interview
• Information

Any extrajudicial confession made by a person arrested, detained or under custodial investigation shall be in writing and signed by such person in the presence of his counsel.

• True
• False

This method helps since different witnesses give different versions of the same crime scene.

• Interrogation
• Interview
• Information

Investigators can advise uniformed patrol officers on the nature of local crime problems and supplement their crime-control efforts with their expertise in conducting surveillance, doing undercover work, and interviewing victims and offenders.

• True
• False

Field of Inquiry - The IRONIC format (Choose all appropriate and correct answers).

• Resources
• Information
• Output based investigation
• Identity
• Cooperation
• Investigation
• Narrating
• Rapport
• Inquiry
• Opening Statement
• Conclusions
• Narrowing

Criminal investigator creates investigative results as well as the incorporation of investigative knowledge and actions into crime-control strategies.

• True
• False

The third objective of criminal investigation is to establish that a crime was actually committed.

• True
• False

All the objects are collected and examined to help identify the perpetrator.

• Information
• Interview
• Interrogation

It comprises of details and data which access knowledge to investigator regarding the perpetrator.

• Information
• Interview
• Interrogation

Any evidence relating to a crime is in the form of _________.

• Information
• Interview
• Interrogation

Investigation differs to the nature of crime occurred and with respect to the pertaining laws.

• True
• False

This procedure is conducted to a person who is suspected of the offence.

• Interview
• Interrogation
• Information

It is compose of data or raw facts that were collected and put together to form a significant idea or something.

• Interrogation
• Information
• Interview

If the arrested individual cannot afford a counsel, the investigating officer shall act as the counsel and will accept any confession made by the individual.

• True
• False

RA7438 enumerates the rights of persons arrested, detained or under custodial investigation; and duties of public officers.

• True
• False

Investigation is examination, inquiry, research express the idea of an active effort to find out something.

• True
• False

This procedure is done to induce confession of a crime.

• Information
• Interrogation
• Interview

Criminal investigation is defined as a reconstruction of a past event.

• True
• False

Forensic science is utilized to aid investigators in tracing the perpetrator.

• True
• False

After the interview, it is proper to close the interview with utmost courtesy and thanking the subject for h is cooperation.

• Conclusions

Common Traces of Information (Choose all appropriate and correct answers).

• Unverified Facebook post
• Testimonies
• News articles
• Grapevine
• Criminal complaint
• Information document subscribed by the prosecutor
• Depositions
• Conspiracy theorist

Main Divisions of Criminalistics (Choose all appropriate and correct answers).

• Biological Science or Medico-legal
• Physics or Physical Identification
• Chemistry

City of municipal clearance is a type of national agency check.

• True
• False

The first objective of criminal investigation is to identify and apprehend the suspect(s).

• True
• False

This requires interactive skills of an investigator to analyze the reliability of information and credibility of the witnesses.

This provide answers for the 5W’s and 1H.

• Information
• Interview
• Interrogation

This is an art which deals with the identity and location of the offender and provides evidence of his guilt through criminal proceedings.

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