Cdi

• Information


  The knowledge or facts which the investigator had gathered or acquired from persons or documents, which are pertinent or relevant concerning the commission of the crime or criminal activities
• Classification of information as to its sources

  • Regular sources
  • Cultivated sources
  • Grapevine sources
• Methods used in acquiring information

  1. Elicitation

  2. Casing

  3. Surveillance

  4. Observation and descriptions

  5. Clandestine operation - covert/discreet

  6. Cover and undercover

  7. Undercover assignment

  8. Informant and informer
• Elicitation


  Obtain information through the process of direct communication, where one or more of the parties to the communication is/are unaware of the specific purpose of the conversation
• Phases of elicitation


  1. Determination of the mission

  2. Selection of the subject

  3. Accomplishment of the mission
• Devices in the conduct of elicitation

  • Approach
  • Probe
• Approach


  The process of setting people to start talking
• Types of approach


  • Flattery
  • Provocative approach
• Probe


  The process to keep the person or subject talking incessantly
• Casing


  Literally means putting a thing or place in a case
• Methods of casing


  • Personal reconnaissance
  • Map reconnaissance
  • Research
  • Prior information
  • Hearsay
• Information desired in casing

  • Area condition and habit
  • Active opposition
  • Disposal plan - in case of possible compromise
  • Escape and evasion
• Surveillance


  Consist of keeping persons, place or other targets under physical observation
• Definitions of terms in surveillance

  • Pre-surveillance conference
  • Stake-out
  • Tailing or shadowing
  • Undercover man
  • Liaison program
  • Safe house
  • Drop
  • Convoy
  • Decoy
  • Contact
  • Made
  • Lost
  • Rabbit (hare)
  • Test for tailing
• Types of surveillance according to intensity and sensitivity

  • Discreet
  • Close
  • Loose
• Types of surveillance according to methods

  • Stationary
  • Moving
  • Technical
  • Shadowing, tailing or roping
• Shadowing or tailing


  Act of the surveillant of following his subject to detect criminal activities
• Roping


  Surveillant assumes different roles and identity in order to obtain information
• Procedures in fixed surveillance

  1. Using a room in a nearby house or building

  2. The use of listening devices and to record them

  3. Other surveillant may remain outdoor
• Tools used in fixed surveillance

  • Binocular or telescopes
  • Movie cameras with telephoto lens
  • Wire tapping device with tape recording apparatus
  • Other listening devices
• Methods of foot surveillance

  • One man shadow
  • Two-man shadow
  • Three-man shadow or ABC shadow
• Observation


  The complete and accurate awareness by an individual of his surroundings
• Description


  The factual reporting of what is observed
• Psychological processes for accurate observation

  • Attention
  • Perception
  • Reporting
• Types of attention


  • Involuntary
  • Voluntary
  • Habitual
• Factors governing report


  • Vocabulary
  • Time log
  • Recurrence of similar incidents
• Clandestine operation - covert/discreet


  A secret action undertaken in behalf of the government or other friendly forces
• Basic organizational elements


  • Sponsor
  • Target or rabbit
  • Agent or asset
• Classification of clandestine agent

  • Principal agent
  • Action agent
  • Spy
  • Propagandist
  • Saboteur
  • Guerilla
  • Strongman
  • Provocateur
  • Cover action
• Cover


  Any device utilized to conceal the true nature of its acts and/or existence from the observer
• Essential types of cover

  • Natural cover
  • Artificial
  • Cover within a cover
  • Multiple cover
• Hazards to cover


  • Static or document opposition (ordinary citizen)
  • Unhostile active opposition (police, security agencies)
  • Hostile active opposition (enemy intelligence operatives)
• Cover story


  A biographical data which will portray the personality of the agent he assumed
• Cover support


  Assigned in target areas with the primary mission of supporting the cover story
• Organizational cover


  Any account consisting of biographical data which when adopted by an individual will assume the personality he wants to adopt
• Undercover assignment


  An investigation technique in which an agent conceals his official identity to obtain information
• Uses of undercover


  • Used independently to get first-hand information about the subject of investigation
  • Supplement other investigative techniques
• Types of undercover assignment

  • Dwelling
  • Work
  • Social
  • Jurisdictional assignment
  • Combination assignment
  • Rope job
• Undercover agent


  An agent who conceals his official identity to obtain information
• Special qualifications of undercover agent

  • Knowledge of the language
  • Background regarding events
  • Knowledge about the customs and habits
  • Physical appearance
  • An artist or an actor