Fundamentals of Criminal Investigation

(CDI 1)

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INSTRUCTION
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1. It is the taken of person into

custody, they can be questioned Entrapment Instigation
further and/or charged. An arrest Investigation Inquest
is a procedure in a criminal justice
system. 4. It is a person who gives
Ans: B
information whitout expection
Warrant Instigation of reward. Ans: A
Arrest Investigation
Informant Inquest
2. Generally an order that serves as Confidential Informer
a specific type of authorization , Informant
that is, a writ issued by a
competent officer, usually 5. It isa person who gives
a judge or magistrate, which
information in return of a price
permits an otherwise illegal act
that would violate individual or reward. Ans: D
rights and affords the person
executing the writ protection Informant Inquest
from damages if the act is Confidential Informer
performed.Ans: A Informant

6. It is a person who gives

Warrant Instigation
Arrest Investigation
information purely for personal
reason; Ans: C
3. It is a defense to criminal charges,
and it's based on interaction Informant Inquest
between police officers and the Confidential Informer
defendant prior to (or during) the Informant
alleged crime. A typical
entrapment scenario arises when
7. “Shadow “ or “Tail” , is a person
law enforcement officers use
coercion and other overbearing
who performs or maintains
tactics to induce someone to surveillance. Ans: C
commit a crime.Ans: A
 Surveillance Surveillant
Subject Convoy Opportunity Public Record
Modus Private Records
8. It is a Secretive & Continues Operandi
watching of person, vehicles and
place or object to obtain 13. It refer to information
information concerning the gathered from cultivated sources
activities and identities of such as paid informants,
individual. Ans: A bartenders, taxi drivers, and
vendors and from the internet
Surveillance Surveillant such as facebook, and
Subject Convoy others.Ans:D

9. A person, place or thing under Opportunity Public Record

Surveillance.Ans: B Modus Private Records
Operandi
Surveillance Surveillant

Subject Convoy 14. It refers consists of the acts

of omission and/or commission
by a person (the victim) which
10. It is the term to applied to
enables another person or group
an associate of the subjects who
of persons (the criminal/s) to
attemps to detect surveillance.
perpetrate the crime. Ans: A
Ans: D
Opportunity Public Record
Surveillance Surveillant
Modus Private Records
Subject Convoy
Operandi

11. It refers to information

15. French criminologist, he
gather from CCTV camera ,
established the world’s first
witnesses & arrested suspect/s,
crime laboratory in Lyon, France.
and from police and other law
He expounded Dr. Gross’ theory
Enforcement file. Ans: B
by statin g that “when two
object come into contact with
Opportunity Public Record
Modus Private Records
one another, they leave traces of
Operandi each other behind” (there is
always something left behind at
12. It refers to information the crime scene). Ans: B
gather from records and files of Thomas Byrnes
the Polices, other law Edmund Locard
Dr. Hans Gross
enforcement agencies ,
Sir Llewelleyn William Atcherly
Company records , Public
Hospital records and others.
Ans: C
16. Father of Criminalistics, he
published a book entitled
“Modern Criminal Investigation”
which pave the way for Edmund
Locard to incorporate modern
science to police works. Ans: C
Thomas Byrnes
Edmund Locard
Dr. Hans Gross
Sir Llewelleyn William Atcherly
17. Chief Constable of West
Riding, Yorshire. He pioneered
the recording of M.O. (modus
operandi) files as investigative
aids that can be used to identify
criminals based on the tools they
use, the manner of commission,
the time of the crime, and other
pertinent data. Ans: D
Thomas Byrnes
Edmund Locard
Dr. Hans Gross
Sir Llewelleyn William Atcherly
18. He discovered that Modus
Operandi do not remain the
same and it changes as the
career progression of the
criminal changes. Ans: A
Thomas Byrnes
Edmund Locard
Dr. Hans Gross
Sir Llewelleyn William Atcherly
19. Father of Personal
Identification who framed
Anthropometry (the
individualization of a person
based on body measurements).
This supplemented the practice
of descriptive words
accompanying a sketch in order
to identify criminals. Ans: B
Jonathan Wild
Alphonse Bertillon
Alan Pinkerton
August Vollmer
20. He Conceived a business of
recovering stolen properties for
a fee in England in the 17th
Century (theif-takers). Arguably
the world’s first private
detective, he took advantage of
a system of bounty and rewards
set up by the British
Parliamentary Reward System.
Ans: A
Jonathan Wild
Alphonse Bertillon
Alan Pinkerton
August Vollmer
21. He was a pioneer in non-
government policing and private
detective works in the US. The
company he established bore his
name (Pinkertons) and have a
logo of an eye with the
inscription “we never sleep”
which the American public came
to know as “private eye”. Among
the famous cases they solved
involved Harry “Sundan ce Kid”
Longbaugh of the Butch Cassidy
outlaw gang. Ans: C
Jonathan Wild
Alphonse Bertillon
Alan Pinkerton
August Vollmer
22. He served as an Army Instrumentality Motive
Sergeant in the Philippines Subject Opportunity
during the Spanish-American
25. Consists of the acts of
war and became an Army
omission and/or commission by
Policemen who oversaw the
a person (the victim) which
integration of former Guardia
enables another person or group
Civil into the new Insular
of persons (the criminal/s) to
Constabulary. His experience in
perpetrate the crime. Ans: D
the Philippine convinced him of
the need to professionalize
Instrumentality Motive
policing and shield it from
Subject Opportunity
politics. Ans: D
26. It is a voluntary
Jonathan Wild
acknowledgement in express
Alphonse Bertillon
terms or by implication, by a
Alan Pinkerton
August Vollmer party in interest or by another
whose statement he is legally
23. He director of the Federal bound, against his interest, of
Bureau of Investigation, his the existence or truth of a fact in
efforts to centralize information dispute material to the
on fugitives, criminal activity, issue.Ans: A
organized crime, fingerprints,
etc., led to the further Admission Motive
Confession Opportunity
development of criminal
investigation. Ans: D
27. Defined in Section 29, Rule
Alphonse Bertillon 130, Rules of Court, is: “The
Jonathan Wild declaration of an accused
August Vollmer expressly acknowledging his guilt
John Edgar Hoover of the charged, may be given in
evidence against him.”
24. is the means or implement
”Voluntary”, for purposes of
used in the commission of the
confession, means that the
crime. It could be a firearm, a
accused speaks of his free will
bolo, a fan knife, an ice pick,
and accord, without inducement
poison or obnoxious substance,
of any kind, and with a full and
a crow bar motor vehicle, etc.
complete Knowledge of the
Both the Motive and
nature and consequences of the
Instrumentality belong to and
confession, and when the
are harbored and wielded
speaking is so free from
respectively by the criminal.
influences affecting the will of
Ans: A
the accused.Ans: B
 Admission Motive
Confession Opportunity 33. An order in writing issued
in the name of the People of the
28. It is a form of close Philippines, signed by a judge
surveillance which a particular and directed to a peace officer,
action is expected to occur or commanding him to arrest a
which a wanted suspect is person and bring him before the
expected to appear.Ans: C court. Ans: D

Cut-Out Stakeout Seizure Search

Cover Live Drop Search warrant Warrant of
Arrest
29. Person or device
interposed between two persons 34. An order in writing issued
or groups in order to provide in the name of the People of the
communications. Ans: A Philippines, signed by a judge
and directed to a peace officer,
Cut-Out Stakeout
commanding him to search for
Cover Live Drop
personal property described
therein an d bring it before the
30. Device or stratagem by
court. Ans: B
which the selected investigator
conceals his identity and his
Seizure Search
relationship with the
Search warrant Warrant of
investigating agency. Ans: B Arrest

Cut-Out Stakeout
35. An examination of an
Cover Live Drop
individual’s person, house,
papers or effects, or other
31. Person who accepts
buildings and premises to
information or material from an
discover contrabands or some
agent and surrenders it to
evidence of guilt to be used in
another. Ans: D
the prosecution of a criminal
action. Ans: C
Cut-Out Stakeout
Cover Live Drop

Seizure Search
32. The confiscation of
Search warrant Warrant of
personal property by virtue of a
Arrest
search warrant issued for the
purpose.Ans: A

Seizure Search
Search warrant Warrant of
Arrest
36. An act or omission in Ans: A
violation of the Revised Penal
Code. Ans: C Secondary evidence
Corroborative evidence
Crime Felony Primary evidence
Misdemeanor Offense Cumulative evidence

37. An act or omission in 43. That which the law regards

violation of the Special Penal as affording the greatest
Laws.Ans: D certainty. (also known as best
evidence) Showing an original
Crime Felony document against a photocopy.
Misdemeanor Offense Ans: C

38. An act or omission in in Secondary evidence

violation of a public law Corroborative evidence
forbidding or commanding Primary evidence
it.Ans: A Cumulative evidence

Crime Felony 44. Aditional evidence of the

Misdemeanor Offense same kind bearing on the same
point. Testimony repetitive of
39. A minor infraction of law testimony given earlier. Ans: D
such as violation of an Secondary evidence
Corroborative evidence
ordinance.Ans: B
Primary evidence
Cumulative evidence
Crime Felony
Misdemeanor Offense
45. It is an 18” x 12” logbook
40. The act is wrong because with hard-bound cover that
there is a law punishing it.Ans: B contains the daily register of all
crime incident reports, official
Malum in se Felony summary of arrests, and other
Mala Prohibita Misdemeanor significant events reported in a
police station. Ans: B
41. The act is inherently evil or
bad or per se wrongful . Ans: A Crime Entrapment
Police Blotter Offense
Malum in se Felony
Mala Prohibita Misdemeanor
46. Ways and means are
42. That which indicates the resorted for the purpose of
existence of a more original trapping and capturing the law
source of information. Weak breaker during the execution of
evidence, like photocopy (xerox). a criminal act. Ans: C

Crime Entrapment
Police Blotter Offense
47. In the absence of a
confession and eyewitness, the
identification of criminal may be
established indirectly by proving
other facts or circumstances
from which, either alone or in
connection with other facts, the
identity of the perpetrator can
be inferred. Evidence of this
nature, usually falls into the
following circumstances. Ans: C
Secondary evidence
Associate evidence
Circumstantial evidence
Eyewitness testimony
48. The physical evidence
found at the scene of the crime
and during the course of the
investigation may serve to
identify the criminal by means of
clue materials, personal
property, or the characteristic
pattern of procedure deduced
from the arrangement of objects
at the crime scene. Ans: B
Secondary evidence
Associate evidence
Circumstantial evidence
Eyewitness testimony
49. the ideal identification is
made by an objective person
who is familiar with the
appearance of the accused and
who personally witness the
commission of the crime.
Secondary evidence
Associate evidence
Circumstantial evidence
Eyewitness testimony
50. Types of Informants
“knowingly give information”.
Ans: C
Confidential informants
Involuntary informants
Volunteer informants
Special informants
51. Types of Informants “those
who do not desire or do not
what to”. . Ans: B
Confidential informants
Involuntary informants
Volunteer informants
Special informants
52. Types of Informants
“identity shall not be revealed”.
Ans: A
Confidential informants
Involuntary informants
Volunteer informants
Special informants
53. Types of Informants who
without concealment supply
information. Ans: D
Confidential informants
Involuntary informants
Volunteer informants
Special informants
54. Types of Informers openly
give information but expects
something in return. Ans: B
Confidential informants
Common or Ordinary Informer
Volunteer informants
 Confidential Informer
55. Types of Informers identity
shall not be divulge and expects
compensation investigator
should know many people and
develop people of importance
their development lies in the
hand of the investigator. Ans: D
Confidential informants
Common or Ordinary Informer
Volunteer informants
Confidential Informer
56. Methods of Surveillance
the continuous watching from
one or more fixed points. Ans:B
Surveillance
Stationary Surveillance
Mobile Surveillance
Foot Surveillance
57. following the subject on
foot or by vehicle, - it may be
classified as close or loose
subject , is kept under
observation at all times ; subject
is watch apart of the time or his
activities are spot-checked.
Ans: C
Surveillance
Stationary Surveillance
Mobile Surveillance
Foot Surveillance
58. Foot Surveillance; three (3)
personnel are needed. Ans: D
Foot Surveillance
Leap Frog Method
Spot
ABC Method of Foot Surveillance
59. Foot Surveillance; used
after the subject created an
observable pattern of action.
Ans: B
Foot Surveillance
Leap Frog Method
Spot
ABC Method of Foot Surveillance
60. Foot Surveillance; subject is
placed under a limited time and
place. Ans: C
Foot Surveillance
Leap Frog Method
Spot
ABC Method of Foot Surveillance
61. Generally refers to the
SCENE OF THE CRIME (locus
criminis) the place where the
crime was committed. Ans: D
Pseudo Crime Scene
Involuntary informants
Secondary Crime Scene
Primary Crime Scene
62. Generally refers to the
SCENE OF THE CRIME (locus
criminis) the place where the
crime was continued Ans: C
Pseudo Crime Scene
Involuntary informants
Secondary Crime Scene
Primary Crime Scene
63. Generally refers to the
SCENE OF THE CRIME (locus
 criminis) a crime scene staged
to mislead, coverup, or conceal
what really happened. Ans: A
Pseudo Crime Scene
Involuntary informants
Secondary Crime Scene
Primary Crime Scene
64. Interrogation Techniques
Place the subject on the proper
frame of mind. The investigator
should provide emotional stimuli
that will prompt him to
unburden himself by confiding.
Analyze subjects’ personality and
decide what motivation would
prompt him to tell the truth; and
then provide those motives by
appropriate emotional appeals.
Ans: D
Kindness
Sympathetic approach
Extenuation
Emotional appeals
65. Interrogation Techniques
that suspect may feel the need
of friendship. He is apparently in
trouble. An offer of friendship by
small acts of kindness may win
his cooperation. Ans: B
Kindness
Sympathetic approach
Extenuation
Emotional appeals
67. Interrogation Techniques
that investigator does not take
serious a view of subject’s
indiscretion. Ans: C
Kindness
Sympathetic approach
Extenuation
Emotional appeals
68. Interrogation Techniques
Obviously, the subject is not the
sort of person that is usually
mixed up in a crime like this. The
interrogator could tell from the
start that he was not dealing
with a fellow who is a criminal by
nature and choice. The trouble
with the suspect lies in his little
weakness – He likes drinks,
perhaps, he is excessively fond
of girls, or he has had a bad run
of luck in gambling. Ans: C
Kindness
Sympathetic approach
Shifting the blame
Emotional appeals

Kindness
Sympathetic approach
69.
Extenuation
Emotional appeals
66. Interrogation Techniques
that simplest technique is to
assume that the suspect is
willing to confess if he is treated
in a friendly spirit. Ans: A
Interrogation Techniques
Two (2) agents are employed.
Muff, the relentless investigator,
who knows the subject is guilty
and is not going to waste any
time. Jeff, on the other hand,
obviously a kind hearted man.
Ans: D
 Kindness
Sympathetic approach
Extenuation
Muff and Jeff
70. Facts of the case: A white
woman reported to the Arizona
police that she was raped. The
suspect was described by the
victim as Mexican. The police
rounded up several suspects
who fit the description and one
of them was Ernesto Miranda, a
truck driver of Mexican descent
who does not speak English and
doesn’t know how to read or
write because he did not even
finished grade school. When
presented in a policelineup, the
woman “positively identified”
Miranda as the culprit Ans: B
Jonathan Wild
Miranda v. Arizona
Alan Pinkerton
August Vollmer
71. Methods of Crime Scene
Search the three (3) Searchers A,
B, and C, proceed slowly at the
same pace along paths parallel
to one side of the rectangle.
Ans: B
Spiral Search Method
Strip Search Method
Zone Search Method
Double Strip Search Method
72. Methods of Crime Scene
Search the double strip or grid
method of search is a
modification of the Strip Search
Method. The rectangle is
traversed first parallel to the
base then parallel to a side.
Ans: D
Spiral Search Method
Strip Search Method
Zone Search Method
Double Strip Search Method
73. Methods of Crime Scene
Search the three searchers
follow each other along the path
of a spiral, beginning on the
outside and spiraling in toward
the center. Ans: A
Spiral Search Method
Strip Search Method
Zone Search Method
Double Strip Search Method
74. Methods of Crime Scene
Search one searcher is assigned
to each subdivision of a
quadrant, and then each
quadrant is cut into another set
of quadrants. Ans: C
Spiral Search Method
Strip Search Method
Zone Search Method
Double Strip Search Method
75. S.O.C.O stands for . Ans: B
Scene of the Crime Operatives
Scene of the Crime Operation
Scenary of the Crime Office
Scene of the Crime
Opportunity
76. It is the skillful questioning
of a hostile witness (es) and
suspect(s). Ans: B
 Interview Information committed coming from the
Interrogation Investigation court. Ans: A

77. It is a simple Criminal Informer

inquiry/conversation type Accused Serial killer
elicitation of information from a
willing victim(s), witness (es) 82. is a person who has been
relevant to a certain formally charged by the
crime/incident/event under prosecutor with a crime within
investigation. Ans: A the jurisdiction of the tribunal.
Ans: B
Interview Information
Interrogation Investigation Criminal Informer
Accused Serial killer
78. A data gathered by the
investigator from other persons 83. It is venue or place where
including the victim crime has been committed.
himself/herself and from public Ans: D
record, private records and
modus operandi files (style or Corpus Delicti Crime Scene
mode of operation). Ans: C Sketch Venue

Interview Information 84. It is a latin word for the

Interrogation Investigation body of crime, used to describe
the physical or material evidence
79. It is the process of that a crime has been
inquiring, eliciting, soliciting and committed. Ans: A
getting vital information, facts,
circumstances in order to Corpus Delicti Crime Scene
establish the truth. Ans: D Sketch Venue

Interview Information 85. It is a rough drawing or

Interrogation Investigation painting, often made to assist in
making more finished. Ans: B
80. is someone who murders 3
or more people with “cooling off Corpus Delicti Crime Scene
“periods in between. Ans: D Sketch Venue

Criminal Informer 86. The locality where a crime

Accused Serial killer is committed or a cause of acti
on occurs. In law, the jurisdiction
81. is a person who has where trial will be held. Ans: C
pronounced conviction or
judgment of the offense Corpus Delicti Crime Scene
Sketch Venue
 of theoffender and provides
87. It is a reason or cause why evidence of guilt through
a person or group of persons will criminal proceedings. Ans: A
perpetrate a crime. Ans: A
Criminal Investigation
Motive Rouges Gallery Strip Search Method
Mug Shot Instrumentality Zone Search Method
Double Strip Search Method
88. It is a police collection of
93. The direct recipients of the
pictures or photographs of
crime itself who suffered direct
criminals and suspects kept for
or indirect loss/injury as a
identification purposes. Ans: C
consequence thereof.
Motive Rouges Gallery
Mug Shot Instrumentality Victims Complainants
Witnesses Suspects
94. is the questioning of
89. It is a photographic portrait
person who is believed to
taken after one is arrested.
possess a knowledge that is of
Ans: B
official interest to the
Motive Rouges Gallery investigator. Ans: A
Mug Shot Instrumentality
Interview Information
Interrogation Investigation
90. Means or implement used
in the commission of the crime.
95. The following are three
Ans: D
elements or ingredients that
must be present at the same
Motive Rouges Gallery
Mug Shot Instrumentality time and place for any crime to
happen.Except one .? Ans: C
91. It is a professional paid to
Motive Investigation
liquidate a specific target. This
Instrumentality Opportunity
term has its roots on the word
“hashish” which is given as a
96. The act by which one
reward to hired killers in the
incites another to do something,
Middle East during the medieval
as to injure a third person,or to
periods. Ans: A
commit some crime or
misdemeanor, to commence a
Serial killing Mass murder
suit or to prosecute a criminal.
Multiple crime Continuing
offense Vide Accomplice. Ans: D

Entrapment Instigation
92. It is an art which deals
Investigation Inquest
with the identity and location
97. The Following are the types
of Foot surveillance Except one.? Know-Nothing Type
Ans: A Disinterested Type
Drunken Type
Suspicious Type
Foot Method
Leap Frog Method
Spot 102. TYPES OF INTERVIEWEES
ABC Method of Foot Surveillance indifferent persons must be
aroused. Ans: B
98. The ff. are the data
involves the basic 5W and 1H of Know-Nothing Type
criminal investigation: Except Disinterested Type
Drunken Type
one . Ans: D
Suspicious Type

How When
Why We 103. TYPES OF INTERVIEWEES
flattery will encourage the drunk
99. A Circumstances and facts to answer; not advisable to take
which give rise to a reasonable written statement.
belief that an accused is guilty of Ans: C
a crime. Ans: A
Know-Nothing Type
Probable Cause Disinterested Type
Inquestprocedings Drunken Type
Mug Shot Suspicious Type
Instrumentality
104. TYPES OF INTERVIE must
100. TYPES OF INTERVIEWEES shift talkativeness to those
reluctant to become witness; matter in useful. Ans: D
remedy is extensive warm-up
fallowed by persistent
questioning. Ans: A Timid Witness
Honest Witness
Know-Nothing Type Deceitful Witness
Disinterested Type Talkative Type
Drunken Type
Suspicious Type 105. TYPES OF INTERVIE an ideal
witness with little are and
guidance. Ans: B
101. TYPES OF INTERVIEWEES
fear must be removed and must Timid Witness
apply psychological pressure; let Honest Witness
him think that his non- Deceitful Witness
cooperation will work against Talkative Type
him. Ans: D
106. TYPES OF INTERVIE he is
permitted to lie and record it
and inform the witness of
perjury of his lies. Ans: C

Timid Witness
Honest Witness
Deceitful Witness
Talkative Type

107. TYPES OF INTERVIE shy or

frighten; employ friendly
approach. Ans: A

Timid Witness
Honest Witness
Deceitful Witness
Talkative Type