FINALS (PART 1) Flashcards
VITAL ELEMENTS OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS
TRAINING, TOOLS, AND TECHNIQUES.
– being a critical factor in developing good and competent investigator, is the key to freedom from bondage of ignorance.
TRAINING
is effective only on men with self-discipline and prolific minds
TRAINING
is a dynamic process-it never ends
TRAINING
- to establish facts and develop evidence
TOOLS
-Most dilemmas encountered by detectives are caused by too much reliance only
TOOLS
is like a soldier who enters combat zone with outdated weapon.
TECHNIQUE
- the war against crimes today is not won by more men and powerful guns but through modern
TECHNIQUE
is the essence of tactical strategy in investigation
TECHNIQUE
-One secret of successful investigators is they maintain sympathetic image. They project charismatic personality. Consequently, they are being looked upon by the public as a friend and not an enemy.
TECHNIQUE
It is the questioning of a person believed to possess information which is relevant to the investigation of a crime- or on criminal activities.
INTERVIEW
-The method of obtaining an information from another person who is aware that he is giving a wanted information, although he may be ignorant of the true connection and purpose of the interview.
INTERVIEW
is a questioning of a person believed to be possessed knowledge that is of official interest to the investigation.
INTERVIEW
THE GOLDEN RULE OF INTERVIEW
“Never conduct or let anyone conduct an interview if the interviewer has not gone to the crime scene”.
QUALITIES OF A GOOD INTERVIEWER
1) RAPPORT
2) FORCEFUL PERSONALITY
3) KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
4) CONVERSATIONAL TONE OF VOICE
5) COMMON INTEREST
6) ACTING QUALITIES
7) HUMILITY
- He must be courteous, sympathetic and humble, ready to ask apologies for the inconvenience of the interview.
HUMILITY
- He must possess the qualities of an actor, salesman, and psychologist and know how to use the power of persuasion.
ACTING QUALITIES
- His tone of voice must be conversational, not confrontational as in interrogation.
CONVERSATIONAL TONE OF VOICE
- His preliminary probing questions should be aimed to establish common interest between him and the subject.
COMMON INTEREST
- The ability of the interviewer to determine the personality and intelligence of his subject.
- He must go down and up to the level of understanding of his particular subject – the interviewee.
KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
- The appearance of the interviewee and other qualities such as skills of communication techniques and the force of his language are the mainstays of the strength of his character.
FORCEFUL PERSONALITY
- The interviewer must be in respectable civilian attire because many thinks that uniform is intimidating.
RAPPORT
– it is the development of intimacy between the interviewer and the interviewee
RAPPORT
- It is winning the confidence of a person being interviewed in order that he will tell all the information in his possession
RAPPORT
REASONS WHY WITNESSES REFUSE TO TALK AND TESTIFY
1) FEAR OF REPRISAL
2) GREAT INCONVENIENCE
3) HATRED AGAINST THE POLICE
4) BIAS OF THE WITNESS
5) AVOIDANCE OF PUBLICITY
6) FAMILY RESTRICTION
7) BIGOTRY
8) CULTIST INDOCTRINATION
- Some cults or religious denominations exercise religious or moral influence on the decision of witnesses to testify.
-It would be more apparent when the witness and the suspect belongs to the same cult.
CULTIST INDOCTRINATION
- Some famous and respected families preserve their reputations by instilling to them members the need of approval of their elders on matters affecting their families.
FAMILY RESTRICTION
- Religious or racial, tribal or ethnic indifference.
BIGOTRY
- There are witnesses who are shy and they shun publicity that will bring them discomfort to their ordinary or obscure way of living.
AVOIDANCE OF PUBLICITY
- The witness maybe an acquaintance, friend, helper, or benefactor of the suspect.
BIAS OF THE WITNESS
- This hatred maybe due to previous bad experience with rogue members of the police organization.
HATRED AGAINST THE POLICE
- The ordeal of testifying in court is an inconvenience on the part hands-to-mouth and to the unemployed.
GREAT INCONVENIENCE
- It is always entertained by witnesses who lack the courage to face the suspect, his company or relatives.
FEAR OF REPRISAL
- This is natural for witnesses who have no means to protect themselves or no influential person to rely on.
FEAR OF REPRISAL
- The investigator’s power of persuasion plays a vital role
FEAR OF REPRISAL
STAGES OF HANDLING THE INTERVIEW
1) PREPARATION
2) APPROACH
3) WARMING UP
4) COGNITIVE INTERVIEW
- The investigator must carefully select his kind of approach, which maybe a single kind, a combination of two or the application of all the techniques.
APPROACH
- The investigator should review the facts at the crime scene and information from other sources in order that he would be ready for the questioning.
PREPARATION
- A background data of the subject should be available so that he could adapt himself to the kind of approach to be employed.
PREPARATION
- The subject is now asked to narrate his account without interruption, intervention or inference.
COGNITIVE INTERVIEW