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Chapter 1 Provide two reasons why it is very important for a police investigator to routinely critically assess all of the information they encounter. Because every investigation is an accountable...
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“A good investigator needs to be conscious of his or her own thinking, and that thinking needs to be an intentional process.” It is too bad we can not just provide you with a basic template to follow...
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The authors wish to thank Dr. Gary Bass (LLD Honorary and Senior Research Fellow, Simon Fraser University and Retired RCMP Deputy Commissioner West), Inspector Steven McCartney (Program Director, BC...
View ArticleChapter 2: Some Important Basic Concepts
“There are many legal rules, concepts, principles, doctrines, and protocols investigators must be attentive to as they work through an investigation, and each must be incorporated into their thinking...
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Chapter 3: What You Need To Know About Evidence
“Evidence forms the building blocks of the investigative process and for the final product to be built properly, evidence must be recognized, collected, documented, protected, validated, analyzed,...
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Chapter 4: The Process of Investigation
“For the court to be satisfied that the investigator acted lawfully and within the bounds of legally prescribed authority, the judge needs to hear the investigator describe their thinking processes to...
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Chapter 5: Strategic Investigative Response
“The STAIR model is a tool a new investigator can use to start structuring and developing their own investigative thinking processes.” In this chapter, we will examine the operational processes of...
View ArticleChapter 6: Applying the Investigative Tools
“As you proceed through the STAIR tool, the process of Analysis and Investigation can become somewhat circular — as the investigation reveals new information, and new information is analyzed to...
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Chapter 7: Witness Management
“Different types of witnesses will provide evidence from different perspectives, and these perspectives need to be assessed by the investigator to establish the reliability of the evidence provided.”...
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Chapter 8: Crime Scene Management
“Crime scene management, and evidence management as a critical part of that, must be learned and incorporated into the investigator’s toolkit.” Crime scene management skills are an extremely...
View ArticleChapter 9: Interviewing, Questioning, and Interrogation
“Understanding the correct processes and legal parameters for interviewing, questioning, and interrogation, can make the difference between having a suspect’s confession accepted as evidence by the...
View ArticleChapter 10: Forensic Sciences
“Knowledge of forensic tools and services provides the investigator with the ability to recognize and seize on evidence opportunities that would not otherwise be possible.” In this chapter, we examine...
View ArticleChapter 11: Summary
The goal of this book has been to provide a new student of investigation with an overview of the skills required by a criminal investigator. As an introduction to criminal investigation, this overview...
View ArticleForeword
I am honoured to have been asked to write the foreword for this important book, written by an accomplished police officer in collaboration with a prominent Canadian criminologist. Rod Gehl began his...
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Rod Gehl is a retired police Inspector, and an instructor of criminal investigation for International Programs and the Law Enforcement Studies Program at the Justice Institute of British Columbia....
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“A thoughtful, well designed, and very cleaver guide to investigation as a thinking process. While reading the book, I kept wondering, ‘Why did it take so long for someone to finally produce such as...
View ArticleReferences
R v Ferguson, 342 (BCCA) (British Columbia Court of Appeal 1996). R v Perka, 2 S.C.R. 232 (Supreme Court of Canada 1984). Abed, R. (2105, November 14). Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 12....
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Abed, R. (2105, November 14). Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 12. Retrieved from...
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View ArticleIntroduction
People have been undertaking projects since the earliest days of organized human activity. The hunting parties of our prehistoric ancestors were projects. Large complex projects such as the pyramids...
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Introduction to Criminal Investigation, Processes, Practices, and Thinking is a teaching text designed to assist the student in developing their own structured mental map of processes, practices, and...
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