Stage 3 The investigation plan

Stage 3 The investigation plan-

In this stage it is about being organised in control and well-motivated. In this stage the officers must create a plan to help them investigate the crime. The main purpose is to identify the line of enquiry which is most appropriate. This means a set of questions which are used in purpose to help the investigation progress. In this stage they must also determine whether they met their objective or not by asking these certain questions. They are checking if the investigation is necessary to achieve what they need to. To do this they must consider the resources they need and if they have the priority to do this. For example if someone has been killed and gone missing they don’t have the priority to destroy buildings and houses until they find them, because this will cause ethical issues with the community. So they must consider the importance of it and the ethical issues involved as well. This stage is important because it is the plan to start the investigation off and once a plan has been made it means that it can be followed by a range of people and make the investigation process quicker. If the process has been made quicker it means the criminal can be found before they commit more crimes. But it isn’t the most important part in the investigation because the plan is usually changed a lot and done in different orders, it just makes it easier because if the investigation is planned out it means they can look at the plan and follow it. This stage isn’t very significant because usually the plan isn’t always followed because there can be a change in plan if something if found out. For example if after questioning someone they admit to doing the crime, the plan won’t need to be followed out because the crime will be solved. But if the investigation plan isn’t done correctly and people are all doing the same job for example they are all questioning a suspect It means there will not be enough evidence to convict anyone because they all did the same thing. So a plan is useful as it shows people what their role is in the investigation and what steps they can do to help solve the crime. The main ethical issues involved depend on what the crime requires. For example if the officers need to search the whole neighborhoods households, this may be an ethical issue for some people who feel their privacy has been evaded. Also if press are involved and find out the investigation plan it means they could publish It and the criminal will know how to prevent getting caught by the plan. So the press would be an ethical issue in this stage and an issue for the officer. After this a follow up investigation can be performed to see if there is a lead to anything which took place in the initial investigation. The investigation plan makes the investigation successful because it enables a organised plan to the criminal investigation and if it is followed it means no important stages will be missed and a criminal can be found out.

In my case that I have been researching the investigation plan was to first question Sion Jenkins, the answers wasn’t wrote down and this evidence was overlooked because there was no proof of what he said. This could have been the reason he was said to be guilty without actually being guilty. Because they didn’t have his answers to when he was being questioned they won’t be sure if he was the criminal or not because pc Bruce will have vivid memory of the answers gave by Sion because he didn’t write it down. On the 22^nd of February the first part of the investigation plan, officers found out from the forensic scientists that the 158microscopic spots of blood found of sions clothing where known to be caused by an impact on a surface that was already wet with blood. The blood found on the clothing was Billie-Jo’s. A was interviewed again on the 25^th of February, she claimed that she talked to Sion about what happened everdyday. She.She still claimed that after the music lesson they went into the house but she was saying her father went round the corner and into the kitchen. Then they both went out the house and Sion closed the door which she now claims was ‘seconds afterwards’  but in her first interview she said ‘minutes afterwards.’ them. Due to doing further investigating from their plan they found out much more information. Which they then continued on to more stages because they still wasn’t sure who the killer was.