Lecture Notes: Intelligence, Police Intelligence, and Crime Scene Investigation

Flashcards cover definitions and core concepts from the lecture notes on intelligence, police intelligence, information cycles, sources, interrogation, and crime scene investigation.

What is the fundamental objective of intelligence?

To ensure rational and timely decision-making.

What is police intelligence?

The end product from the collection, evaluation, analysis, integration and interpretation of information about criminal activities, used to affect arrests, obtain evidence, and forestall crime.

What is one of the purposes of police intelligence in relation to the community?

To check the condition of the community regarding crime, vice, juvenile delinquency, subversion, and insurgency.

What security aspects does police intelligence help determine?

Counter intelligence matters relating to personnel security, physical security, and document security of the police organization.

What is another function of police intelligence besides crime-solving leads?

To determine follow-up leads and help solve individual criminal cases.

What is meant by identifying in police intelligence work?

Identifying criminal elements and their associates.

Name three kinds of intelligence.

Strategic intelligence, line intelligence, and counter intelligence.

What is the first phase of the Five Cycles of Intelligence?

Planning and direction phase (Priority Intelligence Requirements, PIRS).

What does EEIS stand for?

Essential Elements of Information.

What is the second phase of the Five Cycles of Intelligence?

Information collection (with collecting methods).

What are the components of the Processing of Information phase?

Collation and recording.

What does the Evaluation phase assess?

Reliability, validity, timeliness, and relevance of the information.

What does the Analysis and Production phase involve?

Interpretation, analysis, integration and deduction to produce actionable intelligence and its dissemination.

What are the general classifications of information sources?

Regular sources, cultivated sources, and grapevine (informal) sources.

What is OSINT?

Open Source Intelligence—the information publicly available and legally accessible.

What is Close Source intelligence?

Confidential or Classified sources—restricted information not publicly available.

What is overt intelligence?

Information collected openly and legally from publicly available sources.

What is covert intelligence?

Information collected secretly without the target's knowledge, often requiring concealment.

What is a person as a source of information called in intelligence work?

An informant or asset, a person who provides information under direction of an agent handler.

What is the difference between an informant and an informer?

An informant provides information voluntarily or involuntarily without consideration; an informer provides information for a price or reward.

Name the types of informants described.

Confidential informant, Anonymous informant, Criminal informant, Voluntary informant, Special informant.

What is a confidential informant?

A person who provides information secretly, often in exchange for protection, immunity, or compensation.

What is an anonymous informant?

A person who provides information without revealing their identity.

What is a criminal informant?

A person who provides information about criminal activity in exchange for leniency or other benefits.

What is a voluntary informant?

An informant who provides information without coercion or direct financial reward, often to help solve crimes.

What is a special informant?

An informant who provides information concerning specialized cases and is given special treatment.

What is the difference between surveillance and reconnaissance?

Surveillance is continuous with general objectives; reconnaissance is intermittent with specific objectives.

What is casing in intelligence terms?

Reconnaissance of a building, place, or area to determine suitability for intelligence use or its vulnerability.

What is Tactical Interrogation (T/I)?

Interrogation aimed at obtaining information of the highest credibility in the minimum time.

What are the two forms of interrogation?

Direct: the subject knows they are being interrogated and may know the objectives; Indirect: the subject is not aware of the interrogation.

What is an Exasperation technique?

A potentially unreliable technique that frustrates the suspect by challenging statements, potentially eliciting information from hostile individuals.

What is the Opposite Personality technique?

A psychological technique involving doing the opposite of own natural tendencies to provoke a response.

What is the Egotist technique?

A technique using a strong display of ego or self-importance to influence the subject.

What is the Silent technique?

A communication strategy where the interrogator remains quiet to compel the subject to speak.

What is a Crime Scene?

A place or venue where the crime, incident, or event has been committed; may include multiple sites.

What is Crime Scene Investigation (CSI)?

Post-incident police procedures to recover physical and testimonial evidence through systematic methodologies to identify witnesses and prosecute perpetrators.

What is the First Responder's role in CSI?

Securing the scene, providing medical aid, gathering initial information, and preserving evidence.

What is a Scene of the Crime Operation (SOCO)?

Forensic procedure conducted by trained personnel to investigate and gather evidence, preserving, documenting, collecting, and examining all physical evidence.

What is an Investigator on Case (IOC)?

Investigators who gather information and evidence to determine the facts, including interviewing witnesses and analyzing evidence.

What does Release of a Crime Scene entail?

Formally returning the area to its owner or the public after investigation, with a final survey and documentation of release and verification of legal requirements.

Name the types of crime scenes by location or condition.

Primary crime scene, Secondary crime scene, Macroscopic crime scene, Microscopic crime scene, Organized crime scene, Disorganized crime scene, Indoor crime scene, Outdoor crime scene.

What is a primary crime scene?

Where the body is originally found.

What is a secondary crime scene?

Where the victim was confined or where the assault initially took place or routes to/from the primary scene.

Who said 'Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game'?

Blake Edwards.