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WLEA POB Exam #6 Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
Question:Four Primary Objectives of Basic Investigations
Ans: Determine the truth
Determine the criminality
Discover, preserve, analyze and present relevant evidence to support truth
Lawfully find, seize and assist in successful prosecution
Question: Three components of basic investigative structure
Ans: Initiate, investigate and document
Question: Initiation Phase (1st component of basic investigative structure)
Ans: Involves securing, assessing and processing the scene
Question: Securing the scene
Ans: Stabilize the area, render first aid, establish an initial crime scene
perimeter
Question: Stabilizing the area
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Ans: Rendering the scene safe from active threats, environmental hazards,
and potential threats.
Call for assistance and ems
Question: Perimeter of Crime Scenes
Ans: 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.
Question: Assessing the Scene
Ans: Type of Crime
Severity of Crime
Type of Investigations
Resources Needed
Exigencies Present
Question: Goal of Initial Scene Assessment
Ans: Not to determine what happened but how you will proceed with the
investigation.
Question: Reactive Investigation
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Ans: Event that has occurred and is over
Question: Proactive Investigation
Ans: Continuing criminal enterprise
Question: Processing the Scene
Ans: Evidence, Individuals involved
Question: Primary purpose of processing the scene
Ans: Evidence documentation and collection as opposed to actual
investigating
Question: Investigative Phase (2nd component of basic investigative
structure)
Ans: Solving an often complex and interrelated series of problems.
Question: Questions to define the elements of the event
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Ans: 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?
Question: What known acts occurred (Investigative Phase)?
Ans: Are the acts criminal or indicate criminal activity?
Question: What other acts likely occurred to precipitate or as a result of the
known acts (Investigative Phase)?
Ans: Acts of preparation: educating, equipped, communicating, travel
Acts of concealment: evading witness detection, evidence destruction
Question: What instruments were needed to complete the acts (Investigative
Phase)?
WLEA POB Exam #6 Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
Question:Four Primary Objectives of Basic Investigations
Ans: Determine the truth
Determine the criminality
Discover, preserve, analyze and present relevant evidence to support truth
Lawfully find, seize and assist in successful prosecution
Question: Three components of basic investigative structure
Ans: Initiate, investigate and document
Question: Initiation Phase (1st component of basic investigative structure)
Ans: Involves securing, assessing and processing the scene
Question: Securing the scene
Ans: Stabilize the area, render first aid, establish an initial crime scene
perimeter
Question: Stabilizing the area
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Ans: Rendering the scene safe from active threats, environmental hazards,
and potential threats.
Call for assistance and ems
Question: Perimeter of Crime Scenes
Ans: 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.
Question: Assessing the Scene
Ans: Type of Crime
Severity of Crime
Type of Investigations
Resources Needed
Exigencies Present
Question: Goal of Initial Scene Assessment
Ans: Not to determine what happened but how you will proceed with the
investigation.
Question: Reactive Investigation
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Ans: Event that has occurred and is over
Question: Proactive Investigation
Ans: Continuing criminal enterprise
Question: Processing the Scene
Ans: Evidence, Individuals involved
Question: Primary purpose of processing the scene
Ans: Evidence documentation and collection as opposed to actual
investigating
Question: Investigative Phase (2nd component of basic investigative
structure)
Ans: Solving an often complex and interrelated series of problems.
Question: Questions to define the elements of the event
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Ans: 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?
Question: What known acts occurred (Investigative Phase)?
Ans: Are the acts criminal or indicate criminal activity?
Question: What other acts likely occurred to precipitate or as a result of the
known acts (Investigative Phase)?
Ans: Acts of preparation: educating, equipped, communicating, travel
Acts of concealment: evading witness detection, evidence destruction
Question: What instruments were needed to complete the acts (Investigative
Phase)?
