Is a problem-solving challenge which is multi-faceted. Requires both task skills and thinking skills

is an art which deals with the identity and location of the offender and provides evidence of his guilt through criminal proceedings

allso involves analysis of investigated and gathered facts about persons, things, places and subject of a crime to identify the guilty party, locate the whereabouts of the guilty party, and provide admissible evidence to establish the guilt of parties involved in a crime.

A person who committed a crime, arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and sent to prison

No person shall be regarded as criminal unless he has committed a crime, given due process, and has been found guilty by a competent court.

It refers to the process of conducting an official detailed examination or inquiry to discover something or somebody.

It is an act or omission punishable by law.

Enumerate the Etymology of Investigation

Enumerate the Criminal Investigation Based on the PNP Manual:

Enumerate The Nature of Criminal Investigation

Modern day criminal investigators often apply scientific knowledge, based on a fix principle.

Is often used by investigators. What is the underlying principle behind this science that serve as an example of a fix rule?

Place the subject in a proper frame of mind.

The suspect may feel the need for sympathy or friendship

The simplest technique is to assume that the suspect will confess if he is treated in a kind and friendly manner

The investigators indicate he does not consider his subjects indiscretion a grave offense

The interrogator makes clear his belief that the subject is obviously not the sort of person usually get mixed up in a crime like this

(in police parlance sweet and sour) - two agents are employed

Some authors say that criminal investigation is more than an art rather than science because it is not governed by rigid rules or principles.

According to ______, criminal investigation is 95% perspiration, 3% inspiration and 2% luck. Investigators should not only depend on inspiration or luck or else they will fail 95% in their investigation. 100% effort must be exerted because inspiration or luck may never come in his way.

Since it requires a patient, step by step (systematic) and meticulous (careful and through) examination of something or somebody in relation to a criminal incident.

This is initiated base on reports and complaints filed to a law enforcement agency.

The suspect is easily determining and located

The suspect has been tentatively identified but has not been located

The suspect is unidentified

A type of investigation that is conducted before and during the commission of the offense.

Use blending and decoy to catch the criminals in in flagrante delicto

Are usually in the form of entrapment or buy bust operation

It refers to the series of similarities that may link a case or indicate that the same person is committing a series of crime

These are the clues of pieces of information that aid in the progress of an investigation

It refers to the leads provided by the citizen which aids in the progress of an investigation.

The beliefs regarding the evidence, patterns, leads, tips and other information developed and uncover in the case

It refers to an official inquiry conducted by the government agency to uncover facts and determine the truth

It is an effort to search the basic cause of an incident such as the commission of the crime.

A historical description than a current usage to described any penetrating investigation concerning a religious issue

Similar to a formal investigation which is an extensive search inquiry conducted by a government agency

It is the most employed type on investigation which refer to the careful and patient investigation done by scientist or scholars in to identify the original sources of data or causes of problems.

It is a recent type of investigation pursued by the members of the press on their own initiative. It is design to satisfy two purposes:

It involves identifying data, including physical things, that may provide relevant information on the criminal case being investigated.

The act of gathering identified data, facts physical things that are significant to the case being investigated.

It includes keeping or preserving the collected evidence in their true and original form to prevent contamination or destruction of its substantive value.

The process of determining the probative value of the evidence.

The function primarily manifested in the court room.

These are the questions used to inquire the identity of the victims or offended party, name of the suspect, accomplices, accessories and witnesses of the crime such as

The purpose of this question is to find out what happened or what took placed before, during, and immediately after the commission of the offense.

These are the questions that localized the placed of the incident -the city or town, the district or Brgy, the street or road, the number of the house or building

These are the questions used to determine the time, day, month and year when the crime was committed.

These are questions that endeavor to ascertain the motives, causes, antecedents, previous incident, related facts, background occurrences that might help explain the commission of the offense

These are designed to help the investigator determine how the crime was committed, the means or tools that were employed

"Never Touch, alter, move, or transfer any object at the crime scene unless it is properly marked, measured, sketch, and/or photograph."

Assess whether the situation still poses imminent danger and call for back up if necessary.

Make a thorough assessment of the crime scene based on the briefing of the FR;

Respond only upon request through the Operations Center and after the IOC has already made the proper assessment of the crime scene

Make a determination through searching questions to the COP if the crime reported falls within the definition of Sensational Crime or Serious Election Related Incident