CDI 211
He introduced the practice of developing informants, printing wanted notices, employing criminal raids, and bearing firearms and handcuffs and was known as the "Blind Beak” and allegedly being able to recognize 3000 criminals by the sounds of their voices.
JOHN FIELDING
When an accused confessed to the commission of a crime, he accepts the facts constituting the offense but if he interposes self-defense or other exculpatory grounds, then his acknowledgment is considered as what?
Admission
This kind of informant has information for sale. He may have been victimized in a double-cross or little share in the loot or given a dirty deal and seeks revenge as well as profit in his disclosure.
Mercenary informant
An interrogation technique where the complainant, witness, or victim is requested to point positively the suspect who is among persons in the police line-up. The witness victim or complainant are previously coached about the identity of the suspect.
The line-up
According to Dr. Hans Gross the ultimate goal of Criminal Investigation is to ______________?
SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH
An interrogation technique where the suspect is placed among other persons in a line-up and he is identified by several complainants and witnesses who will associate the suspect in other several crimes. This will cause the suspect to become desperate and confess only to the case under investigation, to avoid being charged with false accusations.
Reverse Line Up
A type of question that allowed the subject to reply longer, more detailed and lack of direction from interviewer.
Open Ended Question
This is the questioning technique where the investigator selects the right moment to shout to the subject with a pertinent question in an apparent righteous outrage. With this, the suspects' nerves may break into a confession.
Jolting
A type of interview where witness is allowed to give an account without interruption or intervention from the interviewer. This type of interview is applicable to willing and cooperative witness.
Cognitive Interview
An interrogation technique where the investigator uses reasons, which are acceptable to the subject that led to the commission of the crime. Thus, it may be said that sometimes, killing is a necessity rather than by purpose or design. Robbery may be a necessity to feed a starving family. The application of this technique depends upon the nature of the crime.
Rationalization
A type of informant who may be one of the lesser gang members who run to the police when his gang mates are about to be involved in dangerous situations or when the gang he belongs to is hot on the police trail. He is motivated by anxiety and self-preservation of his well-being and will furnish the information to protect himself and as a means in sustaining his feeling of self-importance. This type is the weakest link in the composition of the criminal chain.
Frightened informant
These are the reluctant type of witnesses. They are found among the uneducated and of a low level of intelligence. The technique to be applied is to go down to their level of intelligence and interrogation.
Know-nothing Type
What is the term used for a crime committed in violation of city or municipal ordinance?
infraction or misdemeanor
An interrogation technique where the Investigator bluffs the suspect that even if he will not confess, there is enough evidence to send him to jail. If he will confess, the investigator will see to it that his prison term will be within the range of probation.
The Pretense Of Solid Evidence Against The Accused
This kind of informant moves around the centers of criminals, group, or syndicate and delights in surprising the police about bits of information. His information may be of value by way of authentication in an intelligence operation.
Self-aggrandizing informant
A type of interview where questions are designed to obtain specific data regarding the case. It is a type of interview that comply to cardinal points of criminal investigation.
Objective Interview
One of the motives of informant that is they are imbued with the sense of duty and obligation to assist the police in their task.
Civic Mindedness
An interrogation technique where the suspect could be tricked that the investigator had gone to the residence and the family members had supplied facts against the suspect. The suspect's family will be dragged into the investigation if the suspect will not confess.
Feigning Contact with Family Members
One of the motives of informant is that those lesser criminals such as accomplices or accessories who will have a change in heart to unburden their conscience.
Repentance
Refers to the tools necessary to commit a crime. This also includes the implement used in the commission of the crime. It could be a knife, a bolo, a handgun, an icepick, poison, motor vehicle etc..
INSTRUMENTALITY
Refers to the length of service of a police officer with the rank of Police Lieutenant to Police General.
POLICE COMMISSIONED OFFICER
It is the confrontational battle of wits between the investigator and the suspect. It is mental combat where the weapon is intelligence and the use of the art. Victory depends upon the proper and effective use of the art.
Interrogation
He uses his seeming desire to divulge information as an excuse to talk to the police to get more information from them more than he gives. To counter this kind of informant, the police apply the deception method by giving him false information that will lead to his capture.
Double crosser informant
He was a keen-minded individual who trained his detectives in recognizing individual criminal techniques. He founded the criminal “modus operandi,” or method/mode of operation.
THOMAS BYRNES
It is the systematic process of preservation, identification, collection, evaluation and recognition of evidences for the purpose of bringing criminal offender to the bar of justice.
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION