Interviews

Question 1

What are the three types of interviews?

Answer 1

(a) Field interview
(b) Interrogation
(c) Canvass Interview

Question 2

What are the 6 essential categories of questioning?

Answer 2

(a) Who
(b) What
(c) When
(d) Where
(e) Why
(f) How

Question 3

What are the two types of interrogation questions?

Answer 3

(a) Open-ended questions
(b) Closed-ended questions

Question 4

What are the three main principles to a field interview?

Answer 4

(a) Identification
(b) Prevention
(c) Repression of crime, and maintaining centralized record keeping system of field contacts.

Question 5

Where are field interviews conducted?

Answer 5

Outside the law enforcement agency.

Question 6

What is an interrogation?

Answer 6

Interrogation is the questioning of a suspect to gain cooperation and to reveal the truth.

Question 7

What type of interview situation is interrogation?

Answer 7

Formal. And it involves the technical aspect of questioning.

Question 8

What is a canvass interview?

Answer 8

A canvass interview is an interview of a person(s) surrounding a crime scene.

Question 9

What is the goal of a canvass interview?

Answer 9

To identify potential witnesses.

Question 10

How do you describe a victim or suspect?

Answer 10

(a) Start with their race and gender.
(b) Describe them from their head to toe.

Question 11

What are the purposes of open-ended questions?

Answer 11

(a) Promote conversation.
(b) Gain descriptive information.
(c) Gain narration of events.
(d) Prevent leading interviewee and revealing case facts.

Question 12

What are the purposes of closed-ended questions?

Answer 12

(a) Clarify particular points.
(b) Restrict the interviewees’s answer/response.
(c) Requires a specific response.

Question 13

Open-ended questions require an __________ answer. While closed-ended questions usually have a ___ or ___ answer.

Answer 13

(a) Explanatory.
(b) Yes/no.

Question 14

What are the two main aspects of a cognitive interview?

Answer 14

(a) Details.
(b) Deception.

Question 15

Steps to interviewing a victim:

Answer 15

(a) Be compassionate and sensitive.
(b) Handy property crimes victims with patience.
(c) Always deflect anger.
(d) Take the victim through the cognitive process backward.
(e) Be alert to the need to follow up.

Question 16

Steps to interviewing a witness:

Answer 16

(a) Aquire support and cooperation
(b) Use cognitive interview process
(c) Avoid contaminating witness memory (don’t reveal unknown information).

Question 17

Interrogations are ________. Field interviews are __________.

Answer 17

(a) Accusatory.
(b) Informative.

Question 18

Steps to interviewing a suspect:

Answer 18

(a) Don’t give them information.
(b) Focus on eliminating or identifying as a suspect.
(c) Use the agencies designated interviewer.

Question 19

Domestic interviews:

Answer 19

(a) Safety is paramount.
(b) Have two officers.
(c) Separate parties to let them cool down.
(d) Look for resolutions.
(e) Involve agencies as necessary.

Question 20

Traffic crash:

Answer 20

(a) Be aware that some witnesses may leave the scene.
(b) Have a 360 degree circle from the crash site.
(c) Compare statements of those involved in crash.
(d) Locate and interview reporting party.

Question 21

Major crime:

Answer 21

(a) Do your victim, witnesses, suspect interviews.
(b) Call specialist for suspect interviews/interrogations.
(c) Search for potential witnesses in 360 degree circle.

Question 22

Medical:

Answer 22

(a) Follow protocol of your agency
(b) Don’t interfere with lifesaving measures.
(c) Question medical staff at a good time.
(d) Respect confidentially

Question 23

Suspicious person:

Answer 23

(a) Identify what called officers attention to the person
(b) Be alert to individuals with uncooperative attitude or being untruthful.
(c) Identify individual and make a field interview card
(d) Pay attention to direction of travel, mode of travel, appropriateness of clothing, time of day or night, property in possession.
(e) Location of contact

Question 24

Children:

Answer 24

(a) Use open ended questions
(b) Avoid leading questions
(c) Use closed ended questions only to clarify
(d) Call agencies designated interviewer.