Fundamentals of Investigation and Intelligence

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

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

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

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

• Interview
• Interrogation
• Information

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

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.

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

• 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

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

Skipping by guessing is one of the rules in questioning.

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

This refers to asking questions to the witnesses of crime.

• Information
• Interrogation
• Interview

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

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

• Information
• Interview
• Interrogation

Positive attitude is one of the techniques in controlling digression.

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

• Interrogation
• Information
• Interview

Privacy during interview must be observed.

• True
• False

Logical approach is based on reason.

• True
• False

NBI clearance is a type of local agency check.

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

• Interview
• Interrogation
• Information

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

Physical evidence is evidences stored digitally or in a computer.

• True
• False

An arrested individual shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty.

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

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

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

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

• Information
• Interview
• Interrogation

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

Criminal investigator helps by delivering justice to crime victims.

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

This procedure is done to induce confession of a crime.

• Information
• Interrogation
• Interview

He is tasked to investigate all criminal cases.

• Criminal Investigator

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

• Information
• Interrogation
• Interview

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

• Identity

Digital evidence are the collected evidence at the crime scene.

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

• Information
• Interview
• Interrogation

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

• Information
• Interview
• Interrogation

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

• Interview
• Information
• Interrogation

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

• Interrogation
• Information
• Interview

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

• True
• False

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

• Criminal investigation

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

• Interview
• Interrogation
• Information

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

• True
• False

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

The investigator must indicate why the subject is being contacted.

• Opening statement

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

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

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

• CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION

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

• Interview
• Interrogation
• Information

Court clearance is a type of national agency check.

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

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

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

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.

• CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION

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

• 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

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

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

• True
• False

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

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

• Information
• Interview
• Interrogation

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

• Information
• Interrogation
• Interview

Digital evidence can be done by identification or comparison.

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

• Interrogation
• Information
• Interview

The second phase of criminal investigation is the preliminary investigation.

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

• 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

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

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

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

• Conclusions

Also referred to as the prober.

• Criminal investigator

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

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

Barangay clearance is a type of national agency check.

• 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

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

• True
• False

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

• Information
• Interview
• Interrogation

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

• Interrogation
• Interview
• Information

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

• Interrogation
• Interview
• Information

A specialist in the field of criminal investigation.

• Criminal Investigator

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

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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

• Interview
• Interrogation
• Information

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

• True
• False

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

• 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

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 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

The custodial investigation report shall be reduced to verbal testimony.

• True
• False