Interviews Flashcards
What are the three types of interviews?
(a) Field interview
(b) Interrogation
(c) Canvass Interview
What are the 6 essential categories of questioning?
(a) Who
(b) What
(c) When
(d) Where
(e) Why
(f) How
What are the two types of interrogation questions?
(a) Open-ended questions
(b) Closed-ended questions
What are the three main principles to a field interview?
(a) Identification
(b) Prevention
(c) Repression of crime, and maintaining centralized record keeping system of field contacts.
Where are field interviews conducted?
Outside the law enforcement agency.
What is an interrogation?
Interrogation is the questioning of a suspect to gain cooperation and to reveal the truth.
What type of interview situation is interrogation?
Formal. And it involves the technical aspect of questioning.
What is a canvass interview?
A canvass interview is an interview of a person(s) surrounding a crime scene.
What is the goal of a canvass interview?
To identify potential witnesses.
How do you describe a victim or suspect?
(a) Start with their race and gender.
(b) Describe them from their head to toe.
What are the purposes of open-ended questions?
(a) Promote conversation.
(b) Gain descriptive information.
(c) Gain narration of events.
(d) Prevent leading interviewee and revealing case facts.
What are the purposes of closed-ended questions?
(a) Clarify particular points.
(b) Restrict the interviewees’s answer/response.
(c) Requires a specific response.
Open-ended questions require an __________ answer. While closed-ended questions usually have a ___ or ___ answer.
(a) Explanatory.
(b) Yes/no.
What are the two main aspects of a cognitive interview?
(a) Details.
(b) Deception.
Steps to interviewing a victim:
(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.
Steps to interviewing a witness:
(a) Aquire support and cooperation
(b) Use cognitive interview process
(c) Avoid contaminating witness memory (don’t reveal unknown information).
Interrogations are ________. Field interviews are __________.
(a) Accusatory.
(b) Informative.
Steps to interviewing a suspect:
(a) Don’t give them information.
(b) Focus on eliminating or identifying as a suspect.
(c) Use the agencies designated interviewer.
Domestic interviews:
(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.
Traffic crash:
(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.
Major crime:
(a) Do your victim, witnesses, suspect interviews.
(b) Call specialist for suspect interviews/interrogations.
(c) Search for potential witnesses in 360 degree circle.
Medical:
(a) Follow protocol of your agency
(b) Don’t interfere with lifesaving measures.
(c) Question medical staff at a good time.
(d) Respect confidentially
Suspicious person:
(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
Children:
(a) Use open ended questions
(b) Avoid leading questions
(c) Use closed ended questions only to clarify
(d) Call agencies designated interviewer.
