Example Scenario- Uniform officers received a 9-1-1 call about a male and female arguing at #214 Main Street in Hamilton. This is a residential neighbourhood. The neighbor next door advised he could hear what sounded like an assault and a female yelling for help. Uniform officers and EMS arrived onscene and located a female unconscious in the closet near the front door. She had a large gash on her face and was transported to hospital. The suspect was gone and the residence was cleared. Police have now returned with a search warrant to search for and seize evidence.

Priorities

• BOLO (Be on the lookout for) the suspect
• Physical and clothing description for suspect - checking area
• Consider arrest warrant if thought he may leave your jurisdiction

Investigative Steps

• CPIC - background of both suspect and victim
• Interview victim at hospital
• Interview Dr. and nurses at hospital
• Document and photograph victim's injuries
• Interview witness- neighbor next door
• Canvas neighbourhood for any other witnesses
• Process scene - document and photograph blood evidence - blood spatter analysis
• Search for and secure any evidence of the assault - weapon?
• Seize boots of the suspect when/if arrested
• Interview EMS

Create a word document of your investigative steps, priorities and decisions made. There are 4 scenarios listed below for each scenario make investigating steps like the example shown above.

Write down as many steps of an investigation that you can identify

Scenarios

1. You work in the Security Dept. of a large hospital. The supervising nurse from one of the floors phones security to report that one of the elderly patients from her floor is missing. The elderly patient has Alzheimer's disease and has gone missing before.

2. You work for the provincial Govt. as a fraud Investigator in the Consumer and Commercial

Relations Dept. You are a peace officer, but you use local police when you make arrests because you do not carry a gun. Your case involves a Senior citizen. The seniors daughter reports that her mother is being ripped off by a renovator. After the renovator remodeled the mothers bathroom , she paid him but he keeps coming back every Friday telling her she has not paid yet. The mothers memory is poor so she keeps writing him cheques for $4000.

3. You work as a security officer (peace officer status) at the

TTC. You receive a radio call to attend the Sheppard-Yonge St. subway regarding a suspicious abandoned briefcase left on the subway platform It is a Friday afternoon at 3 pm. There are about 150 people waiting for the next subway in the area. A citizen reports a male walked away from this briefcase and left the area a few minutes ago.

4. You work for corrections as a Correction Officer. You receive information that there has been a collapse of an inmate in the prison's library. The reason for the collapse is not known at this time. This is a maximum security pen.

question only for scenario 4 . BASED ON THE APPLICATION OF COMMON SENSE.. TAKE YOUR BEST GUESS OF EXACTLY WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE? What is your primary theory on what happened and maybe why? Next write down all the next steps that you would take