Chapter 3 Flashcards
three tools in criminal investigation or sometimes called as the 3 I’s of criminal investigation
includes:
INFORMATION,
INTERVIEW/INTERROGATION and INSTRUMENTATION
It is the knowledge or facts which the investigator had gathered or acquired from persons or documents, which are pertinent or relevant concerning the commission of the crime or criminal activities.
Information
It is records, files from the government or non-government agencies, news items.
Regular Sources
It is the information furnished by informants or informers
Cultivated Source
It when the information is disclosed by the underworld characters such
as prisoners or ex-convicts
Grapevines Source
The visible way of obtaining information like conducting interview, patrol, crime scene search, regular performance of police activities and custodial interrogation.
Overt
The secret way of obtaining information
Covert
the outward manifestations of a criminal event that can be perceived by out five senses – eyes, ears, nose, tongue and hands.
Sensory Form
A criminal act may also provide information is a written form like receipts from the motel, food and drinks in the pocket of the suspect.
Written Form
The information may actually be in a real form – meaning the failure to retrieve it or receive it at the right time will be useless.
Physical Form
The simple questioning of a person believed to possess information, which are relevant to the investigation of a crime or criminal activities.
Interview
In an _________, the interviewee is willing and cooperative with the person conducting the interview.
Interview
Golden Role in Interview
“Never allow the interviewer to conduct nor let anyone to conduct an interview without prior visit to the
crime scene.”
is conducted to willing and cooperative witnesses, where they are given the full opportunity to
narrate their accounts without intervention, interruption and interference from the interviewer.
Cognitive Interview
this interview as prescribed by some investigators requires the interviewee to answer the question
posed by the investigator. The interviewee to answer on what he knows about what is being asked.
Question and Answer
This is focused only in obtaining data regarding the personal background of the subject, the simplest type of interview used in criminal cases
Background Interview
An interview wherein the questions are phrased in a manner such that the subject’s answers are based on his personal opinions or views.
Subjective Interview
The questions are designed to acquire the basic and specific data or facts regarding a criminal case. It is the type of interview that complies with the six cardinal points of criminal investigation
Objective Interview
It refers to the good relation between the interviewer and the interviewee, which is conducive to a fruitful result
Rapport
It is winning the confidence of a person being interviewed in order that he will tell all the information
in his possession
Rapport
The appearance of the interviewer and other qualities such as skills of communication techniques or the forces of his language is the mainstays of the strength of his character
Forceful Personality
He must be understanding, sympathetic and without showing official arrogance, vulgarity of
expressions and air superiority.
Forceful Personality
This will help the interviewer to determine the personality and intelligence of his subjects
KNOWLEDGE ON PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
He must go down in the level of understanding of his particular subject.
KNOWLEDGE ON PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY