Evidence Midterm Review

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Evidence Midterm Review Quiz

Test your knowledge on evidence collection and note-taking procedures with our comprehensive midterm review quiz. Whether you're preparing for an exam or just looking to refresh your skills, this quiz covers important concepts crucial for investigators.

16 multiple-choice questions
Assess your understanding of evidence types, note-taking strategies, and investigative procedures
Perfect for students and professionals in the field

16 Questions4 MinutesCreated by ObservingFalcon247

The basics rules of goo note-taking are:

Contemporaneously, consistent, detailed, accurate, and thorough

Contemporaneously, current, detached, accurate, and thorough

Current, rough, point form, accurate, timely

. If you can’t make your notes on the same day, what should you do?

Provide the information in your duty report or general occurrence report if requested

Make a late entry notation in your notebook

Report it to your supervisor for further guidance

You are investigating a hit and run where a cyclist suffered serious injuries. The cyclist provides a description of the suspect vehicle. A surveillance recording from a nearby store substantiates the description. This is considered what type of evidence?

Circumstantial

Corroboration

Indirect

You are investigating a criminal harassment complaint. Several photographs of the victim have been left on her car windshield. Written on these photographs was “you are never alone”. You seize these photographs as part of your investigation. These photographs are best described as what type of evidence?

Testimonial

Real

Documentary

You are investigating the same criminal harassment complaint as the previous slide described. The handwriting on the photograph is examined by a document examiner from the Centre of Forensic Sciences. The report on this handwriting is considered what type of evidence:

Documentary

Testimonial

Real

You are investigating the same criminal harassment complaint as the previous slide described. Before seizing the photographs, you have an identification officer attend and make a visual recording of where the photographs were found. This recordings best considered as?

Tendering evidence

Collecting evidence

Circumstantial evidence

You are investigating the same criminal harassment complaint. While at the scene, a neighbour approaches you and tells you he saw a man hanging around the complainant’s front year near her car. What this neighbour tells you is:

Corroboration

Circumstantial

Indirect

You’ve arrived at a break and enter and see footwear impressions in the mud near the presumed point of entry. You place a recycling box over the footwear impressions, this action you’ve taken is considered?

Tendering the footwear impression evidence

Preserving the footwear impression evidence

Identifying the footwear impression evidence

Identify what example below is privileged information in a Crown Brief:

Contact information of a victim

Names of victims and witnesses

Charges before the court

What is cactus reus?

The reason or rationale to commit the act

The carrying out of the act

The acting of good faith

Stages of interviewing include:

Preparation, comparing an interview, evaluation

Preparation, commencing an interview, post interview

Preparation, commencing an interview, evaluation

Open ended interview questions allow for?

The interviewee to start anywhere they choose

No contamination from the interviewee

Contamination from the interviewee

. You begin to canvass the neighbourhood looking for information to lead you to a suspect for a break and enter. You should start with what type of questions?

Open-ended

Loaded

Leading

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