Unit 12 Investigations

What is the first step in the reporting process?

• Establishing the crime scene log
• Taking field notes
• Writing the initial report
• Entering the information into the NCIC

What is the officer's narrative?

• A type of supplemental report
• The assumptions made by the investigating officer
• The officer's name and badge number
• Where the officer recounts the details of the incident

A police report should be arranged in chronological order.

• True
• False

When investigators follow up on a case that has been assigned to them, they should stick to the known facts in the police report.

• True
• False

Investigators often use the internet and social media to find information about a suspect.

• True
• False

When conducting an interview, it is important to make the interviewee feel ________________.

• adversarial
• coerced
• dominated
• rapport

Which of the following is the goal of an interrogation?

• To get a confession
• To turn the interrogation into an interview
• To make the other person feel they're being listened to
• To take adequate notes

Gaps in conversation make people feel uncomfortable, so the interviewer should keep talking when an interviewee falls silent.

• True
• False

The Miranda Warning does not have to be given before questioning when ___________________________.

• an interview turns into an interrogation
• public safety is at hand
• the suspect files a 42 U.S. Code 1983 claim
• the suspect has been Mirandized in a previous arrest

Which of the following statements about preventing a suspect from using the restroom is true?

• Any suspect can be deprived of restroom facilities, but must be offered food and water.
• Non-citizens do not have the same rights as citizens, and can be deprived of restroom facilities.
• Preventing a suspect from using the restroom is a violation of constitutional rights.
• Suspects can be deprived of restroom facilities when they have waived their Miranda rights.