Cdi 1 Semifinals 2023-24
Cdi 1 Semifinals 2023-24
Cdi 1 Semifinals 2023-24
DIRECTIONS: Read and analyze the following questions carefully. Choose the best answer corresponding to the letter of your choice by shading
on your answer sheet. Any erasures committed are considered wrong.
Multiple Choice
1. The questioning of a person in a formal and systematic way and is most often used to question criminal suspects to
determine their probable guilt or innocence.
a. Inquiry b. interview c. instrumentation d. interrogation
2. A kind of evidence that tends to prove additional evidence of a different character to the same point.
a. Corroborative b. circumstantial c. Direct d. real
3. The process of bringing together in a logical manner all evidence collected during the investigation & present it to the
prosecutor.
a. Case preparation b. order maintenance c. crime prevention d. public service
4. The questioning of a person by law enforcement officers after that person has been taken into custody.
a. Preliminary investigation b. interrogation c. custodial investigation d. cross examination
5. A police activity directed toward the identification and apprehension of alleged criminals and the accumulation,preservation,
and presentation of evidence regarding their alleged crimes.
a. Police patrol b. police intelligence c. criminal procedure d. criminal investigation
6. To obtain admission and confession of guilt is the primary purpose of ____________.
a. Interview b. surveillance c. investigations d. interrogation
7. A statement of the suspect directly acknowledging his guilt.
a. Admission b. confession c. deposition d. accusation
8. It may be a direct acknowledgement of the truth of the guilty fact as charge or of some essential part of the commission of
the criminal act itself.
a. Admission b. confession c. deposition d. accusation
9. It may be a self-incriminatory statement by the subject falling short of an acknowledgement of guilt.
a. Admission b. confession c. deposition d. accusation
10. The simplest type of interview which concerns with the gathering of information regarding the personal circumstances of a
person who is the subject of investigation.
a. Background investigation b. personal interviews c. intimate interviews d. pre-game interview
11. It is one which induces the criminal to act and need not be shown in order to obtain conviction.
a. Intent b. motive c. opportunity d. inducement
12. The three tools in criminal investigation, whereby their application varies in proportion on their necessity to establish
the guilt of the accused in a criminal case.
a. information, interrogation, instrumentation c. detection, apprehension, conviction
b. inquiry, observation, conclusion d. magnifying glass, pencil, tape measure
13. The simple questioning of a person who is cooperating in the investigation.
a. Interview b. inquiry c. interrogation d. instrumentation.
14. A kind of evidence which may link the suspect to the crime scene. Examples are fingerprints, impressions, blood etc.
a. Physical evidence b. associative evidence c. tracing evidence d. factual evidence
15. Articles & materials which are found in connection with an investigation & which help in establishing the identity of
perpetrator or circumstances under which the crime was committed or which in general, assist the prosecution of criminal.
a. Physical evidence b. documentary evidence c. tracing evidence d. testimonial evidence
16. A person who gives necessary information to the investigator. He may give the information openly and even offer to be a
witness or he may inform the investigator surreptitiously and request to remain anonymous.
a. Witness b. expert witness c. informer d. informant.
17. One of the following is an objective of criminal investigation.
a. Determine the motive b. identify suspects c. rehabilitate the criminals d. prevent crimes
18. The force that tends to pull all objects to the center of the earth.
a. Inertia b. friction c. energy d. gravity
19. Sometimes it is desirable to illustrate the statement of witness through this means.
a. crime scene photography b. posed photograph c. sketching & note-taking d. crime scene recording
20. __________ such as stains and other traces, particularly those available in only small quantities and usually found in
foreign substance, and it can affect analysis
a. Clue materials b. minute details c. physical evidence d. none of these
21. The following are the way in which witnesses would be able to contribute in the identification of the offender, EXCEPT:
a. Describing instrument b. visual observation c. describing perpetrator d. use of five senses
22. In seeking information from people, investigator should be aware of difficulties presented by those who are willing to talk,&
a. Those who refused to talk b. uncooperative witness c. reluctant suspect d. unconscious victim
23. It is the process of identifying the suspect with the employment of artist, and the photo-fit kit in criminal investigation.
a. Cartographic sketch b. composite sketch c. all of these d. none of these
24. Circumstantial evidence usually falls into one of the following classes, EXCEPT:
a. Motive b. opportunity c. associative evidence d. desire
25. The identification may be established indirectly by proving other facts from which the identity of perpetrator can be
inferred.
A. Circumstantial evidence b. real evidence c. relevant facts d. material evidence
26. The ideal identification is made through this by several objective persons who are familiar with the appearance of the
accused and has knowledge of the commission of the crime.
a. Physical evidence b. eyewitness testimony c. circumstantial evidence d. victims and witnesses
27. One of the following is a vital investigative tool that has helped in the reconstruction of crime and the identity of suspects
as well as victims because it is a factual and accurate record of the crime.
a. Police works b. photography c. crime scene investigation d. all of these
28. When people are considered as source of information, the experienced police officer.
A, recognizes that persons from all walks of life represent potential investigative resources
B. develops his contracts only with law abiding citizens
C. restricts his efforts to members of the departments
D. concentrates all his efforts to acquire informants only from criminal types
1. Explain the format and the flow in Interviewing Witness Using the IRONIC Format.