Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

Module 14: Serious Crime > Area Canvass > Flashcards

Area Canvass Flashcards

1
Q

The main objectives of an area canvass may include?

A 
• identifying the offender
• identifying and locating evidence, such as vehicles, discarded clothing, weapons and
other articles
• identifying witnesses
• gathering information.
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Other benefits of conducting an area canvass may include?

A
  • sightings of the victim or offender before or after the event
  • sightings of relevant property or vehicles
  • sightings of potential witnesses
  • creating the opportunity for an early arrest through early identification of the offender
  • obtaining key information to drive the investigation or develop lines of enquiry
  • promoting awareness of significant occurrences
  • eliminating unidentified vehicles or persons reported by other witnesses
  • obtaining an accurate record of the local community.
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

An area canvass must be regularly?

A

Reviewed as new evidence is gathered and amended

accordingly.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

The OC Investigation, OC Area Canvass and OC Suspects should attend the external/general scene as soon as practicable, to?

A

Make a reconnaissance of the area and conduct an appreciation and set the parameters and objectives of the canvass.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Relevant locations which may influence the setting of location parameters include?

A

• scenes, for example:
- sites where victims, offenders or witnesses have been present
- sites where offences have taken place
- sites where vehicles, property or exhibits have been found
• premises within the line of sight of scenes
• access and egress routes to and from scenes
• areas where an offender may have lain in wait
• location where the victim was last seen alive
• locations or premises frequented by the victim
• locations of similar or previous incidents identified by intelligence as having occurred in the same locality as the offence under investigation.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Specialist Police units such as the Criminal Profiling Unit or criminal or geographic profilers may be consulted to assist with?

A

Setting parameters or identifying locations where suspects are likely to frequent or to reside.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Risk assessment
Once the location parameters are set, intelligence systems should be analysed to establish whether there are any people or events in the area which those carrying out the enquiries should be aware of. This may include?

A
  • violent offenders
  • persons wanted by police for other crimes or wanted on warrant
  • groups with particular linguistic or cultural needs
  • local incidents or issues which residents may raise with Police.
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Time parameters are used by area canvass staff to verify the presence of individuals at an address or area, and to interview potential witnesses. Time parameters should be set for?

A

• the offence (i.e. times between which the offence is thought to have occurred)
• the scene (i.e. times when people visited the scene)
• sightings (i.e. times at which a victim, other witness or offender was seen at
particular locations)
• previous residents and visitors at the scene
• consideration of people’s varying work times.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

People residing or working in the area may have relevant information. These witnesses may be peripheral or significant to the investigation and may include people who have witnessed?

A
  • events connected to an incident under investigation
  • sightings of the victim or offender before or after the event
  • sightings of other potential witnesses
  • sightings of relevant property or vehicles.
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

The OC Area Canvass should seek to obtain suitable?

A

Street maps, aerial photographs showing houses and the location of sections, geological information, local council records and other applicable references.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

To ensure relevant information is gathered in a consistent manner during an Area Canvass, investigators should use a?

A

Prescribed questionnaire to incorporate the circumstances of the particular offence.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Key points for team briefings - Advise that evidence of possible probative value must be?

A

Obtained in a formal written statement rather than notebook form. Note: The questionnaire must be endorsed, if a statement is taken.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Key points for team briefings - Advise staff on?

A

• what action to take if they believe they have identified the suspect
• what action to take if they locate items of evidential value
• what action to take if individuals refuse to assist
• how to complete the correspondence flow
• what information can be disclosed during the area canvass (i.e. information
in media releases or otherwise already in the public domain)
• what information must not be disclosed.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Monitoring progress - As each household is completed, the OC Area Canvass should?

A

Shade in a map to maintain a quick up-to-date record of the areas canvassed. A similar map, updated daily,
should be retained at the Operation Headquarters.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

In addition, the OC Area Canvass should continually review completed canvass forms as they are submitted, in order to?

A
  • evaluate the quality of completed work and provide quality assurance
  • identify lines of enquiry to be highlighted to the 2IC
  • monitor ongoing progress of the canvass
  • facilitate the detailed recording of progress.
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Consideration can be given to using the approaches outlined below or a combination of them, to complement door to door enquiries?

A
  • Media.
  • Poster campaign.
  • Mail drop.
  • High profile police presence, using a caravan.
17
Q

At the conclusion of the area canvass the phase OC must submit a report to the OC Investigation outlining the circumstances of this particular aspect of the investigation. The report should include?

A

A summary of all action taken, any significant findings

highlighted and attention drawn to any action that has been undertaken which was outside of the original phase strategy.

18
Q

Supervisors responsible for overseeing an area canvass must be?

A

Competent investigators. They must understand the systems used to gather, store, analyse and
disseminate correspondence.

19
Q

Area canvass staff should complete the Part A form when they first visit an address. One copy of the form is needed for?

A
  • each dwelling
  • each flat or apartment in the case of multiple dwellings on a single property
  • a vacant dwelling or empty section.
20
Q

The Part A form records the?

A

• street name
• house number
• flat number
• personal details of all residents
• personal details of all other people who were visiting the address at the time of the
offence
• vehicles used by all residents and visitors to the address.

21
Q

The Part B form is the questionnaire used in the investigation. The OC Investigation and the OC Area Canvass decide on the wording in the questionnaire, depending on what they wish to establish. Part B forms are completed, for each person who is interviewed during the canvass. The Part B form records the?

A
  • personal details
  • home details
  • work details
  • answers to specific questions.

Any evidential information provided by the witness must also be recorded by way of Formal Written Statement.

22
Q

The OC Area Canvass retains completed Part B forms so they can?

A
  • check them for information relevant to the enquiry
  • match up the Part B forms with the relevant Part A forms for that address
  • tick off the Part A entries to show who has been interviewed.
23
Q

When the occupant of the dwelling or visitor to that dwelling is no longer there, Area Canvass staff must obtain information that will assist Police to locate and interview that person, and record this on the Part A form.
On receipt of a Part A form relating to someone who is no longer in the area, the OC Area Canvass should?

A
  • submit a report requesting Police interview the person
  • attach two copies of a Part B form to that report
  • give the original report and the two Part B forms to the 2 IC
  • attach a duplicate of the report to the relevant Part A form as a record of an outstanding enquiry.
24
Q

When a person spoken to in the area canvass has relevant information to offer, the investigating member must?

A
  • arrange for them to provide a Formal Written Statement, which is provided to the 2IC
  • record on their Part B form they have made a Formal Written Statement and add a description of the person interviewed. This information is particularly helpful if there are indications the offender lives near the scene of the crime
  • ensure the witness information is conveyed to the OC Area Canvass and 2IC Investigation as soon as practicable
  • give the Part B form to the OC Area Canvass.
25
Q

When all enquiries in respect of a particular address have been completed, the OC Area Canvass will?

A

• file Part A and Part B forms together, in numerical and street sequence
• send the duplicate Part B form to the File Manager for filing alphabetically, separately
from the main file
• shade in the area on the area canvass map.

26
Q

Visit and inspect the canvass area to record every address including flats and vacant sections. Confer with the OC Investigation to assess?

A
  • the extent of action taken to date
  • identify the parameters to be covered, including the physical boundaries of the area
  • assess the staff, transport and other resource required.
27
Q

In conjunction with the OC Investigation, develop an area

canvass strategy addressing?

A
  • area canvass objectives
  • location parameters
  • time parameters
  • risk assessment
  • identifying suspects/persons of interest
  • identifying witnesses
  • resources
  • use of questionnaires.
28
Q

Fully brief all staff, covering the following?

A

• Summarise the situation and detail the duties and areas of responsibility of each team member.
• Emphasise the need for thoroughness and that every person in every household as well as visitors must be seen personally.
• Stress the questionnaire is only a guide to ensure the
questions are asked, but should be regarded as flexible in that information supplied could lead to other questions.
• Evidence of possible probative value is to be obtained by way of Formal Written Statement and this must be endorsed on the questionnaire.
• Provide guidance on what action staff should take if they:
- identify the suspect; or
- locate evidence; or
- encounter individuals who refuse to assist.
• Expectations for how correspondence is to be completed.
• What information can and can not be disclosed

29
Q

On completion of area canvass, the OC Area Canvass must?

A
  • conduct a debrief of canvass staff
  • ensure all questionnaires are reconciled with the master list
  • ensure all staff notebooks are accounted for
  • submit a report to the OC Investigation, detailing the results of the area canvass.
30
Q

How can the OC area canvass maintain high staff moral?

A
  • Providing regular feedback on their canvas enquiries are progressing the investigation
  • Updates on progress being made on other parts of the investigation.
31
Q

Parameters for the area to be covered by the canvass must be?

A

adequate and relevant to achieving the investigation objectives.

Module 14: Serious Crime (10 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions