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STRIP METHOD – The searchers proceed
slowly at the same place, along the path parallel to
1. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION - He is the skilled
one side of the rectangle. At the end of the
person who is charged with the duty of conducting
rectangle, the searchers turn and proceed back
criminal investigation when a crime is committed.
along new lanes but parallel to the first movement.
2. INFORMATION – the knowledge for facts the
11. THE DOUBLE STRIP OR GRID METHOD –
investigator has gathered or acquired from persons
Has the same process as that of the strip method
or documents, which are pertinent or relevant
but with modification that the lanes covered by the
concerning the commission of a crime information
strip method is reprocessed twice.
as to the source.
12. THE SPIRAL OR CIRCULAR METHOD – the
3. REGULAR SOURCE – Records, files from
searchers follow each other in a path of spiral,
government or non-government agencies, new
beginning in the outside and spiraling towards the
items to broadcast, intercepted radio, telephone
center of the scene.
messages and history computer data shared.
13. ZONE METHOD – the area divided into
4. CULTIVATED SOURCES – These are
quadrants and each searcher is assigned to his
information furthest by the information or informer.
specific quadrant. This method is sometimes called
5. GRIP/ GRIP VINES – these are information quadrant method.
coming from the underworld character such as
14. THE WHEEL, RADIAL OR SPOKE METHOD –
personnel or ex-convict.
this method is applied if the area to be searched is
6. INTERROGATION – the process of obtaining an approximately circular or oval. The searchers
admission or confession from those suspects who gather at the center and proceed outward a radii or
have committed a crime. It is confrontational in spokes. The setback of this method is that the
nature. The term interrogation also applies to an distances of the searchers increase as they
uncooperative or reluctant witness. This kind of proceed outward.
witness is treated as suspect in order that he will
15. SKETCH – It is the graphic representation of
divulge the information needed by the investigator.
the crime scene. With complete measurements of
7. INTERVIEW – It is the simple and friendly the relative distances of relevant objects and
questioning of people who have the information conditions obtaining therein.
officially needed by investigators.
16. PHYSICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS –
8. INSTRUMENTATION – the process of obtaining reconstructing the crime is based on the physical
an admission or confession from those suspects appearance of the crime scene mainly focused on
who have committed a crim. The term interrogation the pieces of physical evidence and the accounts of
also applies to an uncooperative or reluctant witnesses and suspects.
witness. This kind of witness is treated as suspect
17. MENTAL RECONSTRUCTION – based on the
in order that he will divulge the information needed
physical reconstruction, some conclusions could be
by the investigator.
formulated taking into account all available pieces
9. INSTRUMENTATION – It is the process of of evidence.
applying instruments or tools of police sciences in
18. CONFESSION- it is the direct
criminal investigation and detection. The use of the
acknowledgement by the accused in a criminal
police laboratory in the examination of physical
case of truth of his guilt as to the crime charged or
evidence, such as forensic ballistics and other
of some parts of the commission of the criminal act
sciences. This is sometimes called criminalistics.
itself
19. ADMISSION - it is the statement of the facts by 3. By means of inundation, fire, poison, explosion,
the accused in a criminal case which do not directly shipwreck, stranding of a vessel, derailment, or
involve the acknowledgement of guilt in the assault upon a streetcar or locomotive fall of an
commission of crimes for which he is charged. airship, by means of motor vehicles or with the use
of any other means involving great waste and ruin.
20. ROGUES' GALLERY – A rogue’s gallery (or
rogues' gallery) is a police collection of pictures or 4. An occasion of any of the calamities enumerated
photographs of criminals and suspects kept for in the preceding paragraph or of an earthquake,
identification purposes. The term is also used eruption of a volcano, destructive cyclone,
figuratively by extension for any group of shady epidemic, or any other public calamity.
characters.
5. With evident premeditation.
21. POLICE LINE UP – There will be a group of
6. With cruelty, by deliberately and inhumanly
five to ten persons; one of those is the suspect
augmenting the suffering of the victim or outraging
whom the witness will pinpoint and tell to the
or scoffing at his person or corpse.
investigator who committed the offense.
29. LIFE – In the medico legal viewpoint, is the sum
22. MOTIVE - it is what induces the criminal to act
total of all the vital processes by which the physical
23. OPPORTUNITY - it is the physical possibility integrity of the body is maintained. The cells remain
that the suspect could have committed the crime; healthy, food and water are indigested and
hence, it could be used to identify him at once. absorbed, metabolism is normal, excretion
continuous and locomotion possible.
24. INTENT- it is the accomplishment of the act and
also an element in the commission of crime. 30. DEATH – is define as the state of complete and
persistent cessation of respiration, circulation, and
25. HOMICIDE – Any person who, not falling within
other vital functions of the body. It is there turn of
the provisions of Article 246 (Parricide) Revised
the body to a stable equilibrium, chemically and
Penal Code shall kill another without the
physically.
attendance of any of the circumstances
enumerated in Article 248 (Murder) RPC, shall be 31. SOMATIC DEATH OR CLINICAL DEATH –
deemed guilty of homicide. this is the state of the body in which there is
complete, persistent, and continuous cessation of
26. PARRICIDE – the killing of a person to whom
the vital functions of the brain, heart and lungs
he is related such as parent, grandparent, legal
which maintain life and health.
wife, or child or grandchild.
32. MOLECULAR OR CELLULAR DEATHS –
27. INFANTICIDE – the killing of a child less than
after cessation of the vital function of the body there
three days old.
is still animal life among individual cells. This is
28. MURDER - Any person who, not falling within evidenced by the presence of excitability of
the provision of Article 246 (Parricide) of the RPC muscles and diary movements and other functions
shall kill another, if committed with any of the of Individual cells.
following attendant circumstances:
1. With treachery, taking advantage of superior
33. APPARENT DEATH - STATE OF
strength, with the aid of armed men, or employing
SUSPENDED ANIMATION – this condition is not
means to weaken the defense or of means or
really death but merely transcend loss of
persons to insure or afford impurity.
consciousness or temporary seizure of the vital
2. In consideration of a price, reward, or promise. function of the body on the amount of disease,
external stimulus, or other forms of influence. It
may arise especially in hysteria, urine, catalepsy,
and electric shocks.
34. MAGNUS TEST – a ligature is applied around
the base of the finger with moderate tightness in a
living person, there a first bloodless zone at the
side of the ligature and livid area, this time to the
ligature.
35. I CARD TEST – this consist of ejection of a
solution of florescent so continuously, if circulation
still present, the dye spread whole over the body
and the whole skin will have a greenish yellow
discoloration due to fluorescent in a dead man, the
solution will just remain at the side of the injection.
36. DIAPHANOUS – the fingers are spread wide
and the finger at the finger weeds are views to
through
a strong light in the livid, the finger weeds appear
red but yellow in the dead.
37. WINSLOW’S TEST – there is the movement of
the images of the image form by inflicting artificial
of sunlight on the water of mercury contain in a
saucier and placed on the chest or abdomen if
respiration is not taking.
