...Truro Police Department CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION Policy Number: OPS-6.02 REFERENCE: TPDM Policy OPS-6.02.1 Effective Date: June 1, 2000 Revised Date: October 20, 2004 Accreditation Standards: Mass. Gen. Law: Chap. 90, Sec.22B, MRCP 14(a)(1)(A)(viii) Other: Comm. v. DiGiambattista, District Attorney’s Guidelines on Identification Procedures _________________________ POLICY: It shall be the policy of the Truro Police Department to conduct criminal investigations for the purpose of clearing crimes by arrest and/or complaint; to prosecute lawbreakers; and to recover stolen property. Whenever members of this department conduct an investigation, which requires the interrogation of a suspect, or an interview, connected therewith, all constitutional and statutory rights guaranteed under the law shall be afforded to the individual. The Truro Police Department will ensure that there is a screening of all reported offenses to assure adequate follow-up investigation whenever appropriate. Whenever possible, the District Attorney’s Guidelines on Identification Procedures with attached forms and checklists will be used when dealing with photo line ups, arrays, show ups and taped interrogations and identifications. (Revised October 20, 2004) PROCEDURES: 1. UNIFORM PATROLMEN CONDUCT PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS: Most preliminary investigations will be conducted by members of the patrol force since they are usually the first to arrive at the scene and can start the investigation without delay. Patrolmen...
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...to the primary or secondary area in which a suspected crime has taken place where physical evidence can be obtained. Such areas include indoor or outdoor locations, vehicles or persons as noted by Jackson and Jackson (2011). Upon identifying a crime scene one is presented with a myriad of information and questions. In order to obtain the answers and evidence the crime scene presents that may lead to a successful future conviction(s), there are a number of important principals, procedures and methods that must be stringently followed and managed by the police’s criminal investigative team. As Jackson and Jackson (2011, p.15) has noted, “The way in which scenes of crime are managed and recorded, and how the physical and digital evidence is located, collected, packaged, labelled and stored, are all fundamental to the success of subsequent forensic examinations.” The main objective of the crime scene investigation team is to recognise, preserve, interpret and reconstruct all the significant physical evidence a crime scene presents (Beaufort-Moore, 2009). The evidence is then examined by a forensic laboratory to provide the investigators with information to solve a particular crime (Lyle, 2004). Edmund Locard’s Principal of Exchange is significant to this process as he understood that...
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...Local law enforcement has many different duties that they are responsible for every day and each agency is broken down into many different roles. Local police officers for example are responsible for providing safety within the communities and their specific jurisdiction by patrolling the streets, providing public information, conducting investigations, and forcing traffic laws, preventing crimes, providing and monitoring the local detention centers and drug and alcohol testing to name a few. In 2007, there were approximately 2575 local police departments that were operating in the U.S. In these departments were approximately 463,000 full time personnel. State law enforcement consist manly of the state police and the higher patrol. The duties of these two departments consist of patrolling specific areas, conducting investigations, and enforcing traffic laws on high ways. The state police are much like the local police except that they have a much larger jurisdiction and they are broken down into specialized units, such as, the investigative unit, the aviation unit and tactical unit. The highways protrol's main duty is to enforce traffic laws on state roads and highways, in the means of DUI enforcement, drug trafficking, and traffic accidents. Hawaii is the only state without a state police or highway patrol In 2007, there were 49 state law enforcement agencies with approximately 107,000 full time personnel. The California highway patrol way largest of all state law enforcement...
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...of offender profiling by the police or crews(eg. Arrest someone only because he and the general criminal has one thing in common, or even just base on the color of the skin). This essay will focus on a series of queries and common questions about offender profiling. More information on this article will be presented in the introduction. Offender profiling(CP) has also been called criminal profiling, psychological profiling or crime scene...
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...Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton is the name that is often associated with private security in the annals of police history. With his private detective agency, he left an unforgettable mark regarding the private investigation not only in America, but across the globe as well (Dempsey, 2007). This was reinforced by the company’s logo of the all-seeing eye. Pinkerton was born in 1819 in Scotland, and his father was a known police officer. He was not destined to be a law enforcer, as he opted for other careers, but following the political upheavals that manifested in Scotland, he was forced to change his mind. His family had no option but to flee Scotland, and settled in Illinois where he ran a cooperage—a profession that had never crossed his mind. Later on he became a deputy sheriff and was mandated to pursue the counterfeits products that were being transacted in the region. His investigative career commenced when he was transferred to Chicago after his efforts were recognized. He was given a job in the Treasury Department from which he formed a private police investigation unit that dealt with railroad crime. In 1857, Pinkerton’s Protective Police Patrol was developed and it contracted out private security services to local businesses. The agency grew and covered an area encompassing five states. After some successful high-profile investigations, Pinkerton’s fame grew and agencies were established in other cities during the 1860s. Major events characterized...
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...After conducting "independent research", present arguments either in favor of or condemning the use of the "polygraph" as either an investigative tool or its admissibility in court. Should the polygraph even be available as an "investigative tool"? I do not believe polygraph test results should be admissible in a court of law as evidence. I am however somewhat in favor of using the test as an investigative tool by law enforcement, as long as it cannot be used in any legal way against a person and with special restrictions for its use. In the state of Texas, polygraph results are not admissible into a court of law; however, if a legally obtained confession is obtained during the course of a post-test interview, the examiner in some cases will be subpoenaed to testify as to the details of that confession under oath. There are too many variables when it comes to the instrument and examiner to make the test reliable. The instrument itself must be working properly, the examiner must be properly trained to ask the proper questions in the right way and the examinee must be willing to participate to even have a modicum of accuracy. If people are ill, on medications, elderly, under the influence of alcohol, mentally challenged or unbalanced or even obese, the results could be skewed. The polygraph has failed on numerous occasions. It failed to catch Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer”. He passed the test in 1984 and then confessed 20 years later to killing dozens of women...
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...Police Roles and Functions Paper There are many different policing agencies that help keep the United States protect against criminal activity and the uses of there crime, but in this paper we will be going over the one that are the most important to the free standing of the United State of America What are the effective roles behind the pole agencies are to try and deter crime patrol for crime happening and also to arrest criminals that are committing the crime basically fight the war on crime is the effective over look. This is said when coming to police officers thy have the everyday job of fighting crime and making sure that they can get as many criminals off the street as possible by one being on constant patrol for criminals meaning that they will have the job of going out every day and looking for possible crime to stop and they will be able at the same time to deter criminals from wanting to commit the crimes, and they can also go to places where calls are being made from meaning that they also promise to be reactive police and when someone calls in the closest police officer will report to where ever that might be in order to resolve the issues at hand and will not leave until a possible outcome has been made and that will come with either being able to resolve the issues or making an arrest for whatever issues was caused. This is not all the same for when it comes to the federal and state policing agencies they have to ha the means to get everything done if needed along...
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...Crime scene investigation Strayer University ~ Online CRJ 320 ~ Criminal Investigations Crime scene investigation Introduction A preliminary investigation in the criminal case was nothing but an inquiry and that has been conducted by the representatives of the law enforcement for gathering much information about the allegation. The main use of the inquiry includes two things such as designing and determining whether the crime was already committed and identifies the suspect or confirming the identity of suspects. By using the results of the inquiry, a decision can be made about whether it can be moved forward with the formal accusation, full investigation and the trial. Guidelines The set of guidelines were assembled for conducting the preliminary investigation of the criminal case. The main purpose of the guidelines was for establishing a policy that was consistent in some specific cases. The Guidelines were encouraging the agents of the FBI for perform their duties with effectiveness and confidence, giving a firm assurance for the public under the law, investigations must include foreign counterintelligence, foreign intelligence and the international terrorism of the specific matters were the subject of the separate guidelines (Becker, R. F., & Dutelle, A. W. 2013). The components of the investigation process were described below. The components of the investigation process include physical evidence, interviewing and interrogation. The other...
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...CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a drama television series about procedural forensics crime. Like much other television series, it packages those tedious work procedures with the dramatic storyline and tv technique. Make the crime scene investigation more attractive and excite to the audience. Although the cases are mostly based on the real crime scenes and the process of the investigation, however, there are parts that are dramatized by the television. The following is an analysis for how much of the real-life processes of the crime scene investigation technique have the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation season 1 episode 22: Evaluation Day, kept and how much they changed. One of the inaccuracies in the series that occurs repeatedly is that...
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...paper I will be talking about the Chandlers police department sex crime unit. The history will be mentioned as well as the people that made a difference within the department. Also, I will be talking about the sex crime unit itself and the responsibilities that the detectives have. The sex offender notification program that they are in charge of will also be mentioned as well as the crimes against adults and the crimes against children that the detectives are responsible for. This paper will also define what sex crimes are and give several examples of different types of sex crimes. The sex crimes that are assigned to Chandlers Sex Crime Unit will also be said. Chandlers Police has conducted some investigation in sex crime cases and a couple of these will be motioned in this paper. I will describe some charts and statistics that I have found like rate and of crime in Chandler for crimes like rape, murder, and violent crimes. Chandler Police Sex Crime Unit The Chandler Police Department in Arizona is known to be one of the best police stations in the state. In November of 1914, Charles M. Beckham was elected as one of the first Constables. In 1923, the first City Hall was built and it was the new home for the Police Force/Jail, the Mayor’s office, City Clerk’s office, City Council Chambers and the Magistrate and his courtroom, (Health, 2005). During the 1970s, the second Police/Court facility was built and the Police and Fire Department were combined and renamed...
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...investigators in their investigation. The procedures allow the investigators to solve the crime efficiently as well as deterring future crimes. Present day crimes just as human nature are complex. The extent of sophistication of how crimes remains committed and the challenges associated with criminal laws have placed a significant burden, on people choosing a career in criminal investigation and prosecution of criminals, within the system of criminal justice. Most concerns while conducting a criminal investigation has always been on the legality of when and how to conduct the exercise. Physical evidence collection, witness interviewing and assorted surveillance used in the investigation, all fall under a keenly watched category in the investigative process, not all investigations ends correctly; however, the ultimate goal of an investigative process depends on the process undertaken. For this reason, investigative process should follow a predefined pattern. This calls for frequent simulation exercise undertaken by investigators to keep them in check with the predefined patterns of investigation. This paper seeks to give responses to some of the questions posed in a simulation exercise aimed at standardizing a criminal investigation involving multiple explosions traversing two states. Investigative task force Assuming that legal authority was not an issue, should this investigation be conducted by VPD personnel or a multijurisdictional task force The investigation should be conducted...
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...Training curriculum Foundations of Criminal Justice System Professor William Bower November 27, 2011 Abstract This observations will present an in service core curriculum re-evaluating an argument on the procedure by which an investigative permit is required and released that gives emphasis to the Fourth Amendment needs. Also, the definition of probable cause and its principles in which it is assembled will be discussed. There are two kinds of investigation that do not necessitate a warrant which will also be enclosed in this paper as well as concentrating on a small number of enquiry such as What the underlying principle is for consenting to warrantless investigation, and if these rationale are influential, and whether or not all investigation necessitate that likely reason are present or if there are discharged or not. Investigative permit procedure and the Fourth Amendment requests Searching warrant is not only disturbing they have to also be precise and they are not all equivalent. If a person uses a search warrant for instance to get hold of a company’s financial records or even a senior manager who is assumed of deception this course of action is not uncomplicated, nevertheless if a person uses a search warrant to situate an confiscated part of proof such as a bullet, or illegal pills then it is reasonably uncomplicated to do. Moreover, The Fourth Amendment has to be well thought-out and taken critically when acquiring a search warrant and the officer has to be...
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...Rationale In this unit we have been studying the book, In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote. Having read and studied this nonfiction book on the case of the Clutters, I became interested in the investigation by the police. I decided to write a transcript of a press conference after the arrest of the murderers. It would be held by Al Dewey, the leader of the investigative team in the case of the Clutter family. He is speaking to the public about the details of the police investigation and the motives of the killers. The press conference also gives a small solace for the people of Holcomb, where the crime took place. They have lived under anxiety and fear for 1 month. In order to make the task reflect a real press conference, the conference...
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...crimes, Homicide, Sex crimes, and White collar crimes. When first called out to investigate a case, a criminal investigator can expect to work long hours. It is imperative to gather as much fresh evidence as possible and to track every fresh lead. As a result, it is not uncommon to work up to 20 hours straight, or more, after initially responding to a scene. Detectives and criminal investigators also deal compassionately with people. They should feel comfortable speaking with witnesses and suspects, as well as be prepared to answer any questions, deal with grieving families, and work closely with other components public security organizations Detectives need to be able to take control of a crime scene and feel comfortable running an investigation. Detective, Criminal Investigator A detective or criminal investigator is sometimes referred to as a special agent. A detective or criminal investigator protects peoples’ lives and property while collecting evidence and gathering facts for criminal cases. In the case of solving a murder, homicide investigators will assist in collecting evidence such as DNA and fingerprints at the crime scene. Homicide detectives may not manage the evidence...
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...Deception by the Investigating Officer in the Investigative, Interrogative, and Testimonial Processes Anita L. Levy AJS/532 Ethics in Justice and Security June 8, 2015 Professor Melba Pearson Deception by the Investigating Officer in the Investigative, Interrogative, and Testimonial Processes Deception involves “acting in such a way which leads another person to believe something that you, yourself, do not believe to be true” (Alonso-Quecuty, 1992). Deception can occur in any or all of the three stages of the detecting process which include, investigation, interrogation and court testimony. Each stage is subject to increasingly tough normative constraints (Skolnick, 1999). In the investigation phase of a case police are permitted by the courts to engage in deception and they are trained to do just that. The method that they use may include wiretaps, informants, undercover agents, and the possession and sale of illegal materials or substances (Skolnick, 1999). The line between what is acceptable and what is not is that of entrapment. The deception may be employed up to the point that an “agent of the government initiates a court of action that induces an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime in order that the government may then prosecute” (Skolnick, 1999). It is being recognized that these deceptive practices will be used against those who are reasonably suspected of engaging in criminal behavior or otherwise acting in an unjust manner, to include people...
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