The Investigative Process

This document provides an overview of the investigative process, including the difference between proactive and reactive investigations, weighted and unweighted solvability factors, the importance of goal-setting and planning, stages involved in planning an investigative plan, the three main areas of intelligence gathering process, and short notes on private and public databases. It also discusses the challenges and complexities of financial crime investigations and presents a case study on a self-devised accounting system. References to relevant books and journals are provided.

The Investigative Process

MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Give short answers for the following questions..........................................................................3
What is the difference between proactive and reactive investigations?......................................3
How would you differentiate between the weighted and unweighted solvability factors...........3
Goal - setting and planning is very important for the soundness of an investigative process.
Why?............................................................................................................................................3
Outline the major goals of an investigative plan.........................................................................3
Briefly describe the stages involved in planning an investigative plan.......................................4
Describe the three main areas of intelligence gathering process.................................................4
2. Write short notes on the followings:........................................................................................4
3. “Financial crime investigations generally result in higher volumes of evidence and more
complicated theories of evidence than non-financial crime.’ Discuss this..................................4
CASE STUDY................................................................................................................................4
What do you think could be lacking in the Owner’s self-devised accounting system?..............4
Give some possible causes of shortfall other than theft by Byron..............................................4
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................5

MAIN BODY
Give short answers for the following questions
What is the difference between proactive and reactive investigations?
Crime investigation is the process in which all aspects of the case is seen. Investigation is
required to be done by using of two process that is reactive and proactive. Under reactive police
is required to take immediate action on crime or the complaint launched. In proactive
investigation the person arrested should be made before and during commission of the offense.
How would you differentiate between the weighted and unweighted solvability
factors.
Solvability factors include witnesses to the crime, knowledge of a suspect's name,
knowledge of where a suspect can be located, description of a suspect, identification of a suspect,
property with identifiable characteristics, a significant modus operandi, significant physical
evidence, description of suspect's vehicle. In weighted factor there are eyewitnesses, finger prints
and those factors which is related to case in direct manner. Then unweight are those factors that
are indirectly connected to the case (Oyekan, 2016).
Goal - setting and planning is very important for the soundness of an investigative
process. Why?
Goal is required to be set when investigation is to be done because this is going to provide focus
over the real outcome of the case. Also goal provide a stability over the process makes it smooth
and focused over outcome.
Outline the major goals of an investigative plan
Major goals that should be set while investigation is that identification of complainant’s
goal. In criminal fraud investigation to be fairly simple as the goal of the aggrieved party is to
obtain reimbursement or information from the suspect. Under civil fraud investigator has to be
aim over the facts more in order to make it clear and simple.

Briefly describe the stages involved in planning an investigative plan
Stages that is being involved in planning of investigation is to collect all the links at one
place and then marking out the persons involved in it. Firstly the accuse should be asked
question about the case and then all the witnesses statement should be recorded. All facts are to
be examined properly.
Describe the three main areas of intelligence gathering process.
The main area from which investigation can be process through intelligence gathering is
related to internet that can be a medium to gather evidence, DNA test can also be used to catch
the culprit and weapon got at crime spot.
2. Write short notes on the followings:
a. Private databases it is that kind of database that has been maintained privately by a person or
individual. This is important for investigation as it helps in data collection of particular suspect
from his house(Montasari, 2016).
b. Public data bases is that kind of database that has been prepared by the government in the
form of voter id and birth certificate. It helps in giving address and name of the person to be
investigated to check his past record.
3. “Financial crime investigations generally result in higher volumes of evidence
and more complicated theories of evidence than non-financial crime.’ Discuss this
Such kind of crime that are of financial nature and evidences collected in them are related
to various aspects like technology, personal information, transactions and many more.
CASE STUDY
What do you think could be lacking in the Owner’s self-devised accounting
system?
The design of the accounting system must be lacking proper database maintenance and
also technological fault could be there in it. Personal accounting system should be lacking proper
process to maintain ethical information regarding cash discrepancy.
Give some possible causes of shortfall other than theft by Byron
Other cause of short fall is going to be negligent behaviour of the manger at the time of
installing the accounting system. Also shortfall had been taken place due to technical problem
that would occurred in the accounting system.

REFRENCES
Books and journals
Montasari, R., 2016. Review and assessment of the existing digital forensic investigation process
models. International Journal of Computer Applications. 147(7). pp.41-49.
Oyekan, J.O., 2016. Investigative Process. In Tracking and Mapping of Spatiotemporal
Quantities Using Unicellular Swarm Intelligence (pp. 67-76). Springer, Cham.
Rogers, M.K., 2016. Psychological profiling as an investigative tool for digital forensics.
In Digital Forensics (pp. 45-58). Syngress.
Worrall, J.L., 2019. Investigative resources and crime clearances: A group-based trajectory
approach. Criminal Justice Policy Review. 30(2). pp.155-175.