APPROACH - SOFT SPOT

Question 1

Approaches and questions differ with the type of suspect being questioned:

Answer 1

a) Emotional Approach
b) Sympathetic Approach
c) Kindness/Friendliness
d) Extenuation
e) Shifting the blame
f) The Mutt and Jeff or Sweet and Sour Method
g) Tricks and Bluffs:
h) Stern Approach
i) Removing the Ethnic or Cultural Barrier
j) Searching for the Soft Spot

Question 2

This is a technique where the investigator, combining his skills in of an actor and a psychologist, “addresses the suspect with an emotional appeal” to confess.

Answer 2

Emotional Approach

Question 3

This is applicable to first time offenders or those who are of the “emotional type of characteristics “ displayed by nervousness or emotional disturbances.

Answer 3

Emotional Approach

Question 4

“Devotees of a religious group” may belong to this type.

Answer 4

Emotional Approach

Question 5

The investigator, in his preliminary or probing “questions must dig deep” into the past troubles, plight and unfortunate events in the life of the suspect.

Answer 5

Sympathetic Approach

Question 6

An offer of “help, kindness, friendliness”, may win his cooperation.

Answer 6

Sympathetic Approach

Question 7

A “friendly approach coupled” with posture of sincerity may induce the suspect to confess.

Answer 7

Kindness/Friendliness

Question 8

The simplest technique is to assure that the suspect will confess if he is “treated in a kind and friendly manner”.

Answer 8

Kindness/Friendliness

Question 9

The investigator indicates he does “not consider his subject’s indiscretion” a grave offense.

Answer 9

Extenuation

Question 9

The “first set of investigators must appear to be rough”, mean and dangerous.

Answer 9

The Mutt and Jeff or Sweet and Sour Method

Question 9

The interrogator makes clear his belief that the subject is obviously not the sort of person who usually gets “mixed up in a crime like this.”

Answer 9

Shifting the blame

Question 9

The interrogator could tell from the start that he was not dealing with a fellow who is “criminal by nature and choice.”

Answer 9

Shifting the blame

Question 10

When they had finished the interrogation, the second investigator intervenes by “stopping the first set of investigators”

Answer 10

The Mutt and Jeff or Sweet and Sour Method

Question 11

. By being sympathetic and understanding, he begins his interrogation. If the suspect still refuses to cooperate, then the process is “repeated until there is confession.”

Answer 11

The Mutt and Jeff or Sweet and Sour Method

Question 12

Tricks and Bluffs:

Answer 12

(1) The Pretense of Solid Evidence against the Accused
(2) The Weakest Link/Playing one person against the other
(3) Drama
(4) Feigning Contact with Family Members
(5) More Tricks and Bluffs
(6) The Line-up
(7) Reverse Line-up

Question 13

The investigator bluffs the suspects that even if he will not confess, “there is enough evidence to send him to jail.”

Answer 13

The Pretense of Solid Evidence against the Accused

Question 14

Among the suspects, there must be a “careful selection” as to who among them is the weakest link where the interrogation will begin.

Answer 14

The Weakest Link/Playing one person against the other

Question 14

If he will confess, the investigator will see to it that his “prison term will be within the range of probation.”

Answer 14

The Pretense of Solid Evidence against the Accused

Question 14

By tricks and bluffs, this _____ will be told that his companions had already confessed.

Answer 14

The Weakest Link/Playing one person against the other

Question 15

The suspect could be tricked that the investigator had “gone to the residence and the family members” had supplied facts against the suspect.

Answer 15

Feigning Contact with Family Members

Question 15

had “dealt the fatal blow” or that he received the lion share of the loot in order to intrigued him.

Answer 15

The Weakest Link/Playing one person against the other

Question 15

The weakest link used to “fake pain” and the agony by ordering him to shout, accompanied by banging a chair on the wall to make it appear that a commotion is going on.

Answer 15

Drama

Question 15

The other suspect in separate rooms must hear the DRAMA before telling them that their partner had confessed.

Answer 15

Drama

Question 16

Depending upon the “imagination of the investigator” in each particular situation.

Answer 16

More Tricks and Bluffs

Question 16

“The suspect’s family” will be dragged in to the investigation if the suspect will not confess.

Answer 16

Feigning Contact with Family Members

Question 17

The complainant, witness or victim is “requested to point positively” the suspect who is among persons in the police line-up.

Answer 17

The Line-up

Question 17

The suspect is placed among other “persons in a line up” and he is
identified by several complainant and witnesses who will associate the suspect in other several crimes.

Answer 17

Reverse Line-up

Question 17

This will cause the “suspect to become desperate and confess” only to the case under investigation, to avoid from being charged on false accusations.

Answer 17

Reverse Line-up

Question 17

Stern Approach:

Answer 17

(1) Pretense of Physical Evidence
(2) Jolting
(3) Indifference
(4) Feigning Protection and Consideration
(5) Opportunity to Lie

Question 17

The witnesses, victims or complainant are previously “coached about the identity of the suspect.”

Answer 17

The Line-up

Question 18

Once discovered, there must be a face-to-face meeting with that person and that “heart of steel will melt to pieces.”

Answer 18

Searching for the Soft Spot

Question 18

If the suspect is an Ilocano, he should be interrogated by an Ilocano investigator and the “same with other ethnic or cultural groups.”

Answer 18

Removing the Ethnic or Cultural Barrier

Question 19

in every man’s heart, there is always that “softest spot. “

Answer 19

Searching for the Soft Spot

Question 20

That “spot” maybe the youngest child, the wife, the mother, the brother who acted as his father, the grandparents or the best friend.

Answer 20

Searching for the Soft Spot