WLEA POB EXAM 6 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Four Primary Objectives of Basic Investigations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Determine the truth
Determine the criminality
Discover, preserve, analyze and present relevant evidence to support truth
Lawfully find, seize and assist in successful prosecution
Three components of basic investigative structure - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Initiate, investigate and
document
Initiation Phase (1st component of basic investigative structure) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Involves
securing, assessing and processing the scene
Securing the scene - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Stabilize the area, render first aid, establish an initial crime
scene perimeter
Stabilizing the area - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rendering the scene safe from active threats,
environmental hazards, and potential threats.
Call for assistance and ems
Perimeter of Crime Scenes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Always start bigger, then you can eliminate area if
needed
Must be set in such a way that you can control everyone that goes in and out of it.
Assessing the Scene - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Type of Crime
Severity of Crime
Type of Investigations
Resources Needed
Exigencies Present
,Goal of Initial Scene Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Not to determine what happened but how you
will proceed with the investigation.
Reactive Investigation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Event that has occurred and is over
Proactive Investigation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Continuing criminal enterprise
Processing the Scene - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Evidence, Individuals involved
Primary purpose of processing the scene - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Evidence documentation and
collection as opposed to actual investigating
Investigative Phase (2nd component of basic investigative structure) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Solving an
often complex and interrelated series of problems.
Questions to define the elements of the event - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What known acts occurred?
What other acts likely occurred to precipitate or as a result of known acts?
What instruments were needed to complete the acts?
What "fruits" were likely produced by the act?
Who was involved?
When and where did event occur?
What order did acts occur in?
Why did the event occur?
What known acts occurred (Investigative Phase)? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Are the acts criminal or
indicate criminal activity?
What other acts likely occurred to precipitate or as a result of the known acts (Investigative Phase)? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Acts of preparation: educating, equipped, communicating, travel
Acts of concealment: evading witness detection, evidence destruction
, What instruments were needed to complete the acts (Investigative Phase)? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Help from others, tools
What "fruits" were likely produced by the acts (Investigative Phase)? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Direct
outcomes-criminal acts or indirect outcomes
Direct Outcomes-Criminal Acts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Death, injuries, missing/damaged property
Presence of new items: instruments, trace/biological items
Indirect Outcomes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Methods of ingress/egress
Digital footprints
Subsequent events or behavior
Who was involved in the events and how (Investigative Phase)? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Direct:
Suspects, victims, eye witnesses
Indirect: Eye witnesses to indirect outcomes, instruments, fruits of the acts
Analytical questions to ask after investigative phase - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Is the item evidence?
What investigative element(s) do/does the item help to prove?
What type of evidence is the item (direct, circumstantial, inferential).
Three part investigative technique - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identify problems
Simplify problems
Search out what we are looking for and analyze what we find.
Relevant Evidence (Basic Investigations) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Items and testimony that reflect the
truth regarding a particular aspect of an event
Four Primary Objectives of Basic Investigations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Determine the truth
Determine the criminality
Discover, preserve, analyze and present relevant evidence to support truth
Lawfully find, seize and assist in successful prosecution
Three components of basic investigative structure - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Initiate, investigate and
document
Initiation Phase (1st component of basic investigative structure) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Involves
securing, assessing and processing the scene
Securing the scene - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Stabilize the area, render first aid, establish an initial crime
scene perimeter
Stabilizing the area - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rendering the scene safe from active threats,
environmental hazards, and potential threats.
Call for assistance and ems
Perimeter of Crime Scenes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Always start bigger, then you can eliminate area if
needed
Must be set in such a way that you can control everyone that goes in and out of it.
Assessing the Scene - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Type of Crime
Severity of Crime
Type of Investigations
Resources Needed
Exigencies Present
,Goal of Initial Scene Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Not to determine what happened but how you
will proceed with the investigation.
Reactive Investigation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Event that has occurred and is over
Proactive Investigation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Continuing criminal enterprise
Processing the Scene - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Evidence, Individuals involved
Primary purpose of processing the scene - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Evidence documentation and
collection as opposed to actual investigating
Investigative Phase (2nd component of basic investigative structure) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Solving an
often complex and interrelated series of problems.
Questions to define the elements of the event - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What known acts occurred?
What other acts likely occurred to precipitate or as a result of known acts?
What instruments were needed to complete the acts?
What "fruits" were likely produced by the act?
Who was involved?
When and where did event occur?
What order did acts occur in?
Why did the event occur?
What known acts occurred (Investigative Phase)? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Are the acts criminal or
indicate criminal activity?
What other acts likely occurred to precipitate or as a result of the known acts (Investigative Phase)? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Acts of preparation: educating, equipped, communicating, travel
Acts of concealment: evading witness detection, evidence destruction
, What instruments were needed to complete the acts (Investigative Phase)? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Help from others, tools
What "fruits" were likely produced by the acts (Investigative Phase)? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Direct
outcomes-criminal acts or indirect outcomes
Direct Outcomes-Criminal Acts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Death, injuries, missing/damaged property
Presence of new items: instruments, trace/biological items
Indirect Outcomes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Methods of ingress/egress
Digital footprints
Subsequent events or behavior
Who was involved in the events and how (Investigative Phase)? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Direct:
Suspects, victims, eye witnesses
Indirect: Eye witnesses to indirect outcomes, instruments, fruits of the acts
Analytical questions to ask after investigative phase - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Is the item evidence?
What investigative element(s) do/does the item help to prove?
What type of evidence is the item (direct, circumstantial, inferential).
Three part investigative technique - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identify problems
Simplify problems
Search out what we are looking for and analyze what we find.
Relevant Evidence (Basic Investigations) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Items and testimony that reflect the
truth regarding a particular aspect of an event
