CITP Exam 1 | UPDATED REVIEW 2026 | ACCURATE
ANSWERS | STEP-BY-STEP SOLUTIONS
• criminal investigation -✓✓ANSWER: Solve a crime, with the purpose of proving
or disproving an allegation. A LEGAL and SYSTEMATIC process of identifying,
collecting, preserving, and evaluating evidence or information for the purpose of
bringing a criminal offender to justice
• Steps to criminal investigation -✓✓ANSWER: 1. Case initiation
2. Assessment of allegation
3. Development of an investigative plan
4. Conduct the Investigation safely
5. Prepare an Investigative Summary (write a report)
6. Formal referral to the US attorneys office
7. Processing suspects through the judicial process
8. Processing criminal/civil asset forfeitures
9. Close the investigation
• Authority -✓✓ANSWER: The power to enforce rules
• Ways a case is initiated -✓✓ANSWER: 1. Private sector
2. Proactive agent development
3. Internal agent referral
4. External agent referral
,• Jurisdiction -✓✓ANSWER: the geographical location/area and/or type of offense
which an agency's authority extends
• Investigative Plan -✓✓ANSWER: Written report. By definition, it assists in
developing a systematic approach conducting the criminal investigation. It
ensures all appropriate leads have been followed and the investigator expects to
execute or prove the investigative theory of the case.
• An investigative plan will have... -✓✓ANSWER: - Case number
- Subjects name
- Potential Violations
- Checklist of investigative tasks
- Interviews
- Potential problems or issues
• Motive -✓✓ANSWER: Reason person committed the crime
• Opportunity -✓✓ANSWER: A chance to commit the crime, reliable witnesses to
prove that
• Means to commit a crime -✓✓ANSWER: Did the person have the necessary
physical or mental capacity to commit the crime
• Investigative Summary -✓✓ANSWER: - Case number
- Subjects names/identifiers/criminal history
- Synopsis of the case
,- lists of statutes violated
- The reason the case is being discontinued without referral to the AUSA
- A detailed account of the testimony and physical evidence that supports the
violation
- Lists of witnesses and exhibits
- Recommendations along with the concurrence from supervisors
• AUSA -✓✓ANSWER: Assesses the prosecution of a case (has to accept or decline
a case)
• Primary areas of an investigator -✓✓ANSWER: 1. Investigative
2. Judicial
3. Post-judicial
• An investigators role in the process -✓✓ANSWER: 1. Conduct an investigation
2. Prepare a report of the investigation
• Investigators role in the post-judicial process -✓✓ANSWER: Assist the AUSA
and/or appropriate agency in the criminal forfeiture process (gathering the
evidence to include money, weapons, vehicles, and other assets)
• Case management -✓✓ANSWER: Is the ART of delicately balancing investigative
and administrative aspects of individual criminal investigations while
simultaneously conducting multiple investigations
, • Elements of case management -✓✓ANSWER: The knowledge of the
investigation coupled with maintaining an organized and complete case file with
the legally obtained and secured evidence
• Knowledge of case management -✓✓ANSWER: It is necessary to know the
critical elements of the violations (statutes) being investigated.
• Legislative Branch -✓✓ANSWER: - Congress
- Consists of the house of representatives & the senate
- Creates
- Article 1 of constitution
• Executive Branch -✓✓ANSWER: - President
- Enforces
- Article 2 of constitution
• Judicial Branch -✓✓ANSWER: - Supreme Court & lower federal courts
- Article 3 of constitution
- Judges whether laws/rights/regulations are are working
• First Amendment -✓✓ANSWER: The freedom of religion, speech, and to
peacefully assemble together
• Fourth Amendment -✓✓ANSWER: The right to not be searched or have
something taken away within reason (has to be reasonable). Use of force falls into
this.
ANSWERS | STEP-BY-STEP SOLUTIONS
• criminal investigation -✓✓ANSWER: Solve a crime, with the purpose of proving
or disproving an allegation. A LEGAL and SYSTEMATIC process of identifying,
collecting, preserving, and evaluating evidence or information for the purpose of
bringing a criminal offender to justice
• Steps to criminal investigation -✓✓ANSWER: 1. Case initiation
2. Assessment of allegation
3. Development of an investigative plan
4. Conduct the Investigation safely
5. Prepare an Investigative Summary (write a report)
6. Formal referral to the US attorneys office
7. Processing suspects through the judicial process
8. Processing criminal/civil asset forfeitures
9. Close the investigation
• Authority -✓✓ANSWER: The power to enforce rules
• Ways a case is initiated -✓✓ANSWER: 1. Private sector
2. Proactive agent development
3. Internal agent referral
4. External agent referral
,• Jurisdiction -✓✓ANSWER: the geographical location/area and/or type of offense
which an agency's authority extends
• Investigative Plan -✓✓ANSWER: Written report. By definition, it assists in
developing a systematic approach conducting the criminal investigation. It
ensures all appropriate leads have been followed and the investigator expects to
execute or prove the investigative theory of the case.
• An investigative plan will have... -✓✓ANSWER: - Case number
- Subjects name
- Potential Violations
- Checklist of investigative tasks
- Interviews
- Potential problems or issues
• Motive -✓✓ANSWER: Reason person committed the crime
• Opportunity -✓✓ANSWER: A chance to commit the crime, reliable witnesses to
prove that
• Means to commit a crime -✓✓ANSWER: Did the person have the necessary
physical or mental capacity to commit the crime
• Investigative Summary -✓✓ANSWER: - Case number
- Subjects names/identifiers/criminal history
- Synopsis of the case
,- lists of statutes violated
- The reason the case is being discontinued without referral to the AUSA
- A detailed account of the testimony and physical evidence that supports the
violation
- Lists of witnesses and exhibits
- Recommendations along with the concurrence from supervisors
• AUSA -✓✓ANSWER: Assesses the prosecution of a case (has to accept or decline
a case)
• Primary areas of an investigator -✓✓ANSWER: 1. Investigative
2. Judicial
3. Post-judicial
• An investigators role in the process -✓✓ANSWER: 1. Conduct an investigation
2. Prepare a report of the investigation
• Investigators role in the post-judicial process -✓✓ANSWER: Assist the AUSA
and/or appropriate agency in the criminal forfeiture process (gathering the
evidence to include money, weapons, vehicles, and other assets)
• Case management -✓✓ANSWER: Is the ART of delicately balancing investigative
and administrative aspects of individual criminal investigations while
simultaneously conducting multiple investigations
, • Elements of case management -✓✓ANSWER: The knowledge of the
investigation coupled with maintaining an organized and complete case file with
the legally obtained and secured evidence
• Knowledge of case management -✓✓ANSWER: It is necessary to know the
critical elements of the violations (statutes) being investigated.
• Legislative Branch -✓✓ANSWER: - Congress
- Consists of the house of representatives & the senate
- Creates
- Article 1 of constitution
• Executive Branch -✓✓ANSWER: - President
- Enforces
- Article 2 of constitution
• Judicial Branch -✓✓ANSWER: - Supreme Court & lower federal courts
- Article 3 of constitution
- Judges whether laws/rights/regulations are are working
• First Amendment -✓✓ANSWER: The freedom of religion, speech, and to
peacefully assemble together
• Fourth Amendment -✓✓ANSWER: The right to not be searched or have
something taken away within reason (has to be reasonable). Use of force falls into
this.
