CDI2 Flashcards
Collection of facts in order to accomplish the three fold aim
Criminal investigation
What are the three fold aim of criminal investigation
To identify the guilty party
To locate the guilty party
To provide evidence of the suspects guilt
6 cardinal points of criminal investigation
What specific offense has been committed
How the offense was committed
Who committed it
Where the offense was committed
When it was committed
Why it was committed
Data gathered by an investigator from either regular or cultivated sources
Information
Skillful questioning of suspect and witness believed to possess knowledge about the crime
Interview
Use of forensic technology as a tool examination of physical evidence
Instrumentation
An 18x12 log book with hard bound cover that contains daily register of all crime incident reports, official summary of arrest and significant events reported in police station.
It contains the five w’s and 1h
Police blotter
A venue or place where the alleged crime incident even have committed
Crime scene
Refers to the post incident police operational procedures undertaken at the crime scene when a crime has been committed
Crime scene investigation
Members of the police/military force, fire, medical team or other volunteer who are expected to be the first to a respond to calls for assistance in case of incident
First responder
Refers to the duty investigator julie assigned or designated to conduct and the inquiry of the following systematic set of procedures and methodologies
Investigator on case (OIC)
Refers to the functional capability of the pnb crime laboratory performed by trained personnels through the recognition, methodolical research, documentation/ recording and collection of physical evidence at the crime scene
Scene of the crime (SOCO)
Investigative process must be thought of in terms of gathering information, instead of gathering evidence
Information vs evidence
Essential in order to understand the relationship between the crime and the items of evidence
Information
May not always be admissible in court. It is the rumors tips and hearsay often plays an investigator on the right track to resolve crime but never appear in the testimony
Information from people
Physical evidence often provides inavolable information to the investigator
Information from things
Courts throughout the world have consistently given higher relative evidentiary value the information obtained from things, as compared to information obtained from persons
Relative weight of information
Verbal testimony must strike balance with physical evidence before a criminal investigation considered complete
Balance the scale
Reason that pushes the perpetrator to commit an act with a definite result in mind
Motive
Refers to the chance or the occasion to commit the act
Opportunity
The capability of the perpetrator to commit the act using the available tools at hand
Means
Proof beyond reasonable doubt
USA
Guilty beyond reasonable doubt
Philippines
Objective of criminal investigation D L A R P
Detect crime
To locate and identify the sus
To arrest the suspect in crime
To recover stolen property
To prepare sound criminal cases for prosecution