Finals

• Cartography of Sketching (Artist's Sketch)


  It consists of putting ideas in an accurate pictorial form. It is a means of describing an object or area to satisfy a particular need. It is done when the witness and investigator develop a picture of the criminal with the help of a skilled cartographer
• Taking of Sworn Statements of the Witnesses


  1. Sworn Statement or Affidavit of complainant/s and witness/es must be taken immediately by the investigator-on-case

  2. Affidavit of Arrest of arresting officers must be taken immediately not later than 24 hours

  3. In Inquest cases, the investigator-on-case and the arresting officer/s shall observe Article 125 of the RPC
• Preparation of Reports and Filing of Charges


  1. Spot report within 24 hours to HHQ

  2. Progress report

  3. After operation report

  4. Final report after the case is filed before the prosecutor's office or court

  5. Accomplishment report
• Procedure in the Release of the Crime Scene


  1. Ensure that appropriate inventory has been made

  2. Release is accomplished only after completion of the final survey and proper documentation of evidence, witness/es, victim/s and suspect/s

  3. If the crime scene is within a private property, the same must be released to the lawful owner witnessed by any barangay official. In case of government facility, it should be released to the administrator
• Attendance to Court Duties


  The investigator-on-case and arresting officers shall endeavor to ensure their attendance during court hearings while COP/Heads of Units shall supervise and ensure the attendance of witness/es
• Strip/Line Method


  If there is only one officer available for the search, the lane pattern can be adapted
• Zone or Sector method


  1. The area to be searched is divided into quadrants and each searcher or a group of searchers is assigned to the quadrant

  2. If crime scene is too wide, it can be divided into quadrants and in each quadrant, other search patterns can be applied
• Two major purposes why evidence must be protected


  • To avoid or prevent destruction, mutilation, contamination and/or alteration of physical evidence
  • To preserve and present physical evidence in similar condition when they were found
• Japanese Intelligence in World War II

  • Failed because it was not provided with sufficient number of trained personnel to assemble and evaluate the mass of materials which were collected through Japanese Intelligence was involved in short war and defensive in nature
• Great Betrayals


  • Judith Coplon - a political analyst of the Department of Justice who was accused of taking unlawful possession of government documents and spying for a foreign power (Russia)
  • Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs - accused of releasing American Atomic Secrets to the Soviet in 1945 and British in 1947, had detailed knowledge of the construction of Atomic Bombs
  • Ernst Hilding Anderson - in 1951, a Royal Navy provided military secrets to a foreign power and was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment
• Police intelligence


  The activities of criminal and other law violators for the purpose of effecting their arrest, obtaining of evidence, and forestalling their plans to commit crime
• Cardinal Principle of Police Intelligence

  • The proper, economical and most productive use of personnel and equipment employed and/or utilized in planning the collection of information and dissemination of intelligence
• Line intelligence (Offensive effort)


  Of an immediate nature and necessary for more effective police planning and operations
• Measurement and Signature intelligence (MASINT)


  A technical branch of intelligence gathering, which serves to detect, track, identify or describe the signatures (distinctive characteristics) of fixed or dynamic target sources
• Imagery Intelligence (IMINT)


  An intelligence gathering discipline which collects information via satellite and aerial photography
• Five Successive Steps Comprising the Collection Planning

  • Determination of the intelligence requirements
  • Determination of priority, which will be assigned, to these intelligence requirements
  • Balancing the intelligence requirements with available collection agencies to arrive at equitable allocation of collection efforts
  • Selecting the collecting agency to be employed and the issuance of collecting directives
  • Supervision and inspection to ensure that the collection directives are carried out properly
• Priorities (PIRs)


  A system to decide which items of information are more important - critical importance and lesser importance; EEI- highest priority intelligence requirements; indicates the intelligence requirements essential to planning
• Steps in the Collection of Information

  • Determine collecting agencies
  • Send order or requests
  • Supervise collection efforts
  • Use of tools or techniques in collection
  • Ensure timely collection
• Who is tasked to collect information?

  • Intelligence officers/agents-regular members
  • Civilian agents – informers and informants
  • Assets – individuals or institutions which assist in providing information
• Methods of Collection


  • Overt – open
  • Covert – secret/clandestine
• What to Consider in Collection Planning?

  • Personality – persons involved, suspects, social status, etc.
  • Organization – group committing the crime
  • Resources/Equipment – used in committing the crime
  • Activity – modus operandi/crime activities, time of attack, victims, place of attack, etc.
• Criteria of Evaluation


  • Pertinence (usefulness)
  • Reliability (dependable)
  • Credibility (truthfulness of information)
• Criteria of Dissemination


  • Timeliness
  • The message must be clear, concise and complete, as well as in the proper form for the receive to readily to understand its contents
• Methods of Dissemination


  • Fragmentary order from top to bottom of the command
  • Memorandum, circulars, special orders, etc.
  • Operations order, oral or written
  • Conference – staff members
  • Other report and intelligence documents
  • Personal contact
• Tasks Involved in Police Intelligence Operation

  • Discovery and identification activity
  • Casing – surveillance or reconnaissance
  • Liaison Program or Linkages
  • Informant management
  • Clipping services
  • Debriefing
  • Relevant miscellaneous activities
  • Utilization of informant for planning and organizational employment purposes
• Overt Intelligence


  The information of documents is produced openly without regards as to whether the subject of the investigation becomes knowledgeable of the purpose for which it is being gathered
• Covert Intelligence


  The information is obtained without knowledge of the person against whom the information or documents may be used, or if the methods of procurement are done in an open manner
• Purposes of Overt and Covert Intelligence


  • Check the conditions in the community relating to crime, vice, juvenile delinquency and identification of organized crimes
  • Determine through counterintelligence the applied matters pertaining to personnel security, physical security and document security of police organization
  • Determine the follow-up leads and help in the evaluation of individual criminal cases
  • Identify criminal elements and other lawbreakers as well as their associates
  • Assists in the arrest of wanted criminals
  • Check on the quality and effectiveness of the operation of the police forces
• Means of Procurement


  • Classical intelligence – utilizes human being to gather information
  • Modern or technical intelligence – employs machine and human such as satellites, electronic gadgets to gather information
• Counter-Intelligence


  Aspect of intelligence which in peace or in war is concerned with the detection, prevention and neutralization of espionage, sabotage, subversion or other inimical foreign intelligence activities, by planning and developing suitable countermeasures to what such hostile activities
• Basic Principles of CI Operations

  • Conformity to mission
  • Avoidance of publicity
  • Objectivity
  • Confirmation
  • Offense
  • Flexibility
  • Continuity
  • Coordination
• Security Intelligence


  The total sum of efforts to conceal the following: national policies, diplomatic decisions, military data, other information of a secret nature affecting the security of the nation from unauthorized persons
• Publication of rewards. This may be done through the different media (television, radio, and newspaper) that may lead to the capture of the criminal. A weeklong publication together with the criminal’s picture will pay off.
• Corrupting with money the known associates of the criminal. If the agent found money to be effective in exchange of very important information that may provide resolution to the case under investigation, then offering money could help. In the underworld, money talks louder than other things.