Investigations
A methodology that provides accountability, clear goals and objectives, planning, allocation of resources and control over the speed, flow, and direction of the investigation.
What is Major Case Management?
Providing or making available all relevant information and investigative materials to the Defence.
What is Disclosure?
You need the following to arrest someone, even if you are not prepared to conclude your investigation.
What are grounds to arrest?
Excludes inferior evidence when better is available and permits inferior evidence when better is not available.
What is Best Evidence Rule?
A breach of laws, rules or regulations.
What is an offence?
What caveat requires you to seek permission before forward sharing a document?
What is the Third Party Rule?
Summarizes the evidence gathered and articulates the theory of the police.
What is a Report to Crown Counsel?
Where credibly-based grounds to suspect are exceeded.
What are Reasonable Grounds to Believe?
Also known as the “exhibit person” or “exhibit custodian”.
What is Seizing Officer?
This unit provides technical expertise with the installation of surveillance equipment, trackers, and other specialized gear used by undercover operators, etc.
What is Special I?
These are all ...
-Police database checks
-Open Source
-Surveillance
-Driver's License Verification
What are examples of Preliminary Investigation Tools (techniques)?
This case effectively cast in stone the following obligation:
“the Crown has an obligation to disclose all relevant material in its possession, so long as the material is not privileged".
What is R. v. Stinchcombe?
Used to obtain documents or data in the possession or control of a person.
What is a Production Order?
Any property, which may have evidentiary value, seized by a member in the course of an investigation.
What is an exhibit?
The relationship between you and the suspect is typically established and built through bonding and the development of rapport, in this phase.
What is Dialogue?
An investigative technique that is generally hidden from public knowledge.
What is the covert investigative technique?
Requirement to disclose misconduct.
What is a McNeil Disclosure.
The preferred official, legal framework through which countries share evidence and exchange other services of assistance in order to further criminal investigations and prosecutions.
What is Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs)?
The taking of a thing from a person by a public authority without that person's consent when a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy over that thing.
What is seizure?
The judge determines if the accused remains in custody or if he is released with conditions or a commitment to appear to Court at a later date.
What is a Bail Hearing?
When applying for project status, investigators use this form, which enables management to plan the use of resources and project expenses incurred during operations.
What is form 2350 or the Operational Plan?
The vetting code (number) for Delayed disclosure.
What is V3?
Informer Privilege or Solicitor-Client Privilege
What is Class Privilege?
A search may be in violation of s. 8 of the Charter where it intrudes on?
What is Expectation of Privacy?
When the Defence says “If you don’t remember its ok we can continue”.
What is the Friendly Counsel Approach?