ASIS Professional Certified Investigator Exam Questions with Verified Answers

Henry Fielding - ANSWER-Created the Bow Street Runners Robert Peel - ANSWER-Created the first organized police department in the world Clive Popay - ANSWER-First undercover police officer Francis Gaulton - ANSWER-The first person to notice a systematic pattern on the palms, hands, fingers, and feet on human beings Edward Henry - ANSWER-Developed a system for classifying fingerprints that is still in use today Juan Vucetich - ANSWER-Was the very first to get a conviction using fingerprints Allan Pinkerton - ANSWER-First detective in the US Alec Jeffreys - ANSWER-Developed and invented DNA fingerprinting Exculpatory - ANSWER-Evidence that tends to show a defendant is NOT guilty Inculpatory - ANSWER-Evidence that tends to show a defendant IS guilty Modus operandi - ANSWER-The way a criminal conducts his act Prima facie - ANSWER-Different acts of a felony that make it a particular felony Corpus delicti - ANSWER-Shows that a crime has been committed and that the person charged, has probably done it Aggravating - ANSWER-Supports giving a harsher punishment Mitigating - ANSWER-Support not giving a harsher punishment Habeas corpus - ANSWER-The written transcript of a court case In camera - ANSWER-When the jury is dismissed during testimony of information by the investigator Res gestae - ANSWER-This legal term (in Latin), means "what is said and done during a crime tends to indicate that state of mind the suspect and shows what happened"