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Theories Of Criminal Investigations

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Today is September 14th, 2015. I arrived at the Criminal Investigation Unit at 6:43 pm and left at 10:45 pm. There were twenty-five pending cases. I read every case and assigned to the corresponding detective. After that, I answered the phones for about three hours. I was able to transfer some calls to the detectives and got messages for the detectives that were not available. Today was a very slow. Some of the detectives were just playing with their phones or others were just watching the football game. I just stayed at my desk and made sure I answered the phone when it rang. I noticed today that some of the detectives got distracted with other unrelated work activities. The lack of supervision is a problem in this unit. Even the Sergeant …show more content…

This agency is overwhelmed with cases, so every detective should be trying to contact people in their cases to find a suspect. I started to notice a new problem in the agency. I understand sometimes we may get distracted while working, but when I sensed some detectives are spending a lot more time with other things, it makes me wonder. Today is September 15th, 2015. I arrived at 5:47 pm and left at 11:02. When I got to the office, a police officer was coming to the unit with two detained young guys. Detective Robinson was getting ready to interview one of them. The case was about a residential burglary when one of the suspects dropped his phone while stealing the victim's television. The police officer was able to track the owner of the phone and arrested both him and his friend. Detective Robinson and I entered the interview room where one of the suspects was waiting. The young person was a 17-year-old African American. He was the owner of the cell phone. The suspect said that he gave the phone to his friend before his friend decided to go the victim's apartment. He had no idea he was stealing. Detective Robinson told him his friend version of …show more content…

I arrived at the office at 6:05 pm and left at 11:01 pm. When I arrived, there were two homeland security federal agents outside the building. They were working with Detective Robinson with a theft case. They came in and then when to the interview room with Detective Robinson for about one hour. After the federal agents had left, Detective Robinson told me that the woman they were interviewing happened to steal from an important person who works for FEMA, so the federal agency had to interfere with the investigation. They did not arrest the suspect; however, they told her they would eventually. The suspect did not realize when she was in the interview room by herself; they were watching her in the observation room. She called somebody and said she was not going to tell the truth. They were recording the interview, and they continue recording while she was alone in the room. Today I learned that homeland security agents will get involved in theft crimes is the criminal steals from somebody that works with

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