PREPARATION - REFUSAL

Question 1

STAGES OF HANDLING THE INTERVIEW:

Answer 1

1) Preparation
2) Approach
3) Warming Up
4) Cognitive Interview

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

Preparation

Question 2

A “background data of the subject should be available” so that he could adapt himself to the kind of approach to be employed.

Answer 2

Preparation

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

Approach

Question 3

“Avoid multiple, complex and legalistic questions”.

Answer 3

One question at a time

Question 3

This is being done by preliminary or exploratory questions to clear the atmosphere, promote a conducive ground for cordiality, “respect, and trust for each “

Answer 3

Warming Up

Question 3

The subject is now “asked to narrate his account without interruption”, intervention or inference

Answer 3

Cognitive Interview

Question 3

RULES IN QUESTIONING:

Answer 3

1) One Question at a Time
2) Avoid Implied Answers
3) Simplicity of Questions
4) Saving Faces
5) Yes and No Answers

Question 3

The “nod of the head” or any other body language as a response to the question should be avoided

Answer 3

Avoid Implied Answers

Question 4

The” answer must be oral, clear”, explicit and responsive to the questions.

Answer 4

Avoid Implied Answers

Question 4

A “short simple question” at a time is required. Avoid legalistic questions.

Answer 4

Simplicity of Questions

Question 5

Do not ask questions which could be answered by YES or NO.

Answer 5

Yes and No Answers

Question 6

It will curtail the complete flow of information and will lead to inaccuracy

Answer 6

Yes and No Answers

Question 6

Embarrassing questions on the subject on matters of exaggeration or honest errors about time, distance and description can be avoided if the investigator will cooperate with subject to “save his face.”

Answer 6

Saving Faces

Question 7

TYPES OF WITNESSES ACCORDING TO THEIR ATTITUDE:

Answer 7

1) Know-Nothing Type
2) Disinterested Type
3) The Drunken Type
4) Suspicious Type
5) Talkative Type
6) Honest Witnesses
7) Deceitful Witness
8) Timid Witness
9) Boasting, Egoistic, or Egocentric Witnesses
10) Refusal to Talk Witnesses

Question 7

These are the “reluctant types of witnesses”

Answer 7

Know-Nothing Type

Question 8

They are among the “uneducated and of low level of intelligence”

Answer 8

Know-Nothing Type

Question 9

This is the “uncooperative and indifferent subject”

Answer 9

Disinterested Type

Question 10

Their indifference should be “demolished to arouse their interest” or be flattered.

Answer 10

Disinterested Type

Question 11

• The style of questioning by the investigator should be “adapted to the psychology of the subject”.

Answer 11

The Drunken Type

Question 12

“Written statement must be taken during his sobriety”.

Answer 12

The Drunken Type

Question 13

These types of witnesses are “suspicious about the motive” and actions of the investigator

Answer 13

Suspicious Type

Question 13

The “barrier of the suspicions” may be removed by sincere explanations or psychological pressure

Answer 13

Suspicious Type

Question 13

These are witnesses who are “prone to exaggerate, adding irrelevant” or new matters to their narrations

Answer 13

Talkative Type

Question 13

The skillful investigator could “prune the unnecessary matters” from relevant ones

Answer 13

Talkative Type

Question 14

These are “truthful and cooperative witnesses” where the investigator could rely upon, with little or no problem in handling them

Answer 14

Honest Witnesses

Question 15

These are “liar type of witnesses.”

Answer 15

Deceitful Witness

Question 16

They will be “enmeshed in contradictions”

Answer 16

Deceitful Witness

Question 17

They are the “shy-type of witnesses.”

Answer 17

Timid Witness

Question 18

The “approach must be friendly” and reassuring confidentiality of their information.

Answer 18

Timid Witness

Question 19

They will be “good witnesses” because of their ability of expressing their accounts of the commission of the crime.

Answer 19

Boasting Witnesses

Question 20

They are “susceptible to add color” or importance in their role as witnesses, probably under-rating the accounts of others.

Answer 20

Boasting Witnesses

Question 20

These are the “most difficult subjects to deal with”

Answer 20

Refusal to Talk Witnesses

Question 20

The causes maybe “trauma, shock, fear, hatred, and others. “

Answer 20

Refusal to Talk Witnesses