NC BLET CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION EXAM WITH CORRECT
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Preliminary Investigative Procedures - CORRECT ANSWERS 1. Document initial
observations
2. Record the time that the call was dispatched
3. Record time of arrival on scene
4. Document initial observations
5. Determine your legal status at the scene.
6. Safety
7. Emergency care
8. Protective search of the crime scene
9. Securing the crime scene
10. Investigative notes
Documenting initial observations - CORRECT ANSWERS a) Lighting conditions
b) Traffic flow
c) Pedestrian traffic
d) Weather
e) Temperature
Determine your legal status at the scene such as... - CORRECT ANSWERS
Consent
Search warrant
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Exigent circumstances
Search incident to arrest
T/F if incriminating evidence is found that implicates the person who gave consent,
that person may, at a later time, deny they gave consent throwing the admissibility of
any evidence obtained into doubt. - CORRECT ANSWERS TRUE. Obtaining a
search warrant should be the default.
Factors that are considered in whether exigent circumstances exist. - CORRECT
ANSWERS (1) Officers' reasonable belief that persons on the premises need
immediate aid or where there is a need to protect or preserve life or avoid serious
injury (also called the emergency doctrine)
(2) The degree of urgency involved and the time necessary to obtain a warrant;
(3) Officers' reasonable belief that contraband is about to be removed or destroyed;
(4) The possibility of danger to police guarding the site while a search warrant is
obtained;
(5) Information indicating the possessors of contraband are aware police are on their
trail; and
(6) The ready destructibility of the contraband.
T/F The search incident to arrest exception DOES authorize a full exploratory search
of the premises - CORRECT ANSWERS FALSE. The search incident to arrest
exception does NOT authorize a full exploratory search of the premises. Authorized
search of their person and area of their immediate control (lunge able area)
the first responder(s) first priority - CORRECT ANSWERS The safety and physical
well-being of officers and other individuals, in and around the crime scene
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This type of search will typically be conducted based on exigent circumstances or
consent - CORRECT ANSWERS protective search
Unnecessary or improper entry into the crime scene may: - CORRECT ANSWERS
(1) Destroy or contaminate important evidence
(2) Introduce items or substance into the crime scene that may mislead investigators
(3) Provide defense attorneys with a basis for discrediting the investigators or the
findings of a crime laboratory.
The responding officer should enter the crime scene only for the limited purposes of:
- CORRECT ANSWERS (1) Determining that a crime has been committed
(2) Aiding victims
(3) Apprehending perpetrators
(4) Securing the area
Whenever possible, the crime scene should be entered only by? - CORRECT
ANSWERS one narrowly defined route to avoid the destruction of evidence, the
contamination of possible scent trails and so on
the area designated as a crime scene should be as large as - CORRECT
ANSWERS as large as the circumstances require or permit.
The crime scene should be secured by the use of? - CORRECT ANSWERS crime
scene tape, rope, barricades, locks or other appropriate measures
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