Exam 6: An Introduction to Intelligence

Charles R. Swanson and his colleagues (2012) propose that there is a continuous six-step process used by intelligence centers; the first step is: Planning and direction

Typically, the preliminary investigation, often carried out by a uniformed officer, includes one of the following steps in addition to interviewing victims:

The biggest challenge in an investigation is when the offender is _______.

Victims-and witnesses-who give evidence, include eyewitness identification of the offender, can be mistaken, have their facts all wrong, or be attempting to ______________.

A _______ may be assigned to the case and may even show up at the crime scene before the patrol officer leaves.

It is important for intelligence analysts and tactical crime analysts to have a mastery of how a criminal investigation proceeds

It is important that responding officers maintain control of the crime scene. This means, among other things, that the officers:

The premise of geographic profiling is that given a sufficient number of crimes, with adequate information for analysis, a ______________ of the area in which the offender's residence is located can be calculated.

Link analysis refers to ???______________ among people or organizations.

Experienced investigators will avoid hunches or developing leads or suspects based on intuition

When the offender is unknown, the basic lead, in many instances, may come from the _______.

There are three broad categories of evidence that investigators attempt to locate

There are any number of reports that an intelligence unit can produce for a police department; among the kinds of reports that an intelligence unit could provide for criminal investigators, perhaps the most important are criminal profiles, geographic profiles, time-event charts and ______________.

There are three broad categories of evidence that investigators attempt to locate. Those categories are Corpus delicti, Associative and ______________.

The patrol officer responding to a crime must determine whether a tactical situation exists

To better appreciate the investigative process, it is useful for crime analysts to be aware of the essential qualities of a ______________.

Among the duties or procedures utilized by the senior investigator are interviewing the victim again or interviewing other witnesses, conducting or supervising the neighborhood canvass, or _______.

Among the national databases available to the crime analyst are AEXIS, NIBRIN, NDPIX, NAMUS and _______.

Crime analysts should recognize that among the qualities of successful investigators is:

A time-event chart depicts in graphic form the ______________ of an individual's or a group's activities.