PRUDENCE RESEARCH & REVIEW CENTER

Baguio City
Mock Examination
CRIME DETECTION, INVESTIGATION & PREVENTION – PART TWO

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only
the answer for each item by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice
on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED.

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1. When a fire propagated such that there’s a block of burning houses, there’s already a
_____.
A. Conflagration
B. Free-burning
C. Incipient phase
D. Smoldering phase
2. Which of the following is NOT included on the study of fire behavior?
A. Manner of fuel ignition
B. Manner of flame propagation
C. Manner of fire scene examination
D. Manner of heat accumulation
3. Fire Investigator Ma Lou Wang found a burned body in a fire scene. He requested that
such body be subjected to autopsy. In the autopsy, they found out that the lungs and
blood of the victim has no sign of abnormal quantity of carbon monoxide. What should
have been the reason?
A. because the victim died of suffocation
B. Because the victim was killed before he was burned
C. Because the victim died of burning
D. Because the victim died of asphyxia
4. A fire extinguisher is very effective in suppressing fire because of the agent being
inserted on it:
A. This statement is TRUE.
B. This statement is FALSE
C. This statement is BROAD
D. This statement is CONTRADICTORY
5. How do they describe water as a firefighting agent?
A. Considered as the Best firefighting agent
B. Considered as the Excellent firefighting agent
C. Considered as the Greatest firefighting agent
D. All of the choices
6. In vertical ventilation, in what particular point of the burned structure such
ventilation is applied?
A. At the Bottom Point
B. At the Farthest Point
C. At the Top Point
D. None of the Choices
7. What sometimes causes fire to re-ignite when carbon dioxide is use in extinguishment?
A. Dissipation of Carbon Dioxide after apparent extinguishment
B. Evaporation of Carbon Dioxide after extinguishment
C. When the surface of the burning liquid is disturbed
D. When oxygen was introduced to burning material
8. Cassandra Firemen responded to a fire scene. Based from the scenario, the best
ventilation to be applied is horizontal ventilation. On what side Cassandra Firemen
should open first?
A. Door side
B. Highest point
C. Leeward side
D. Windward side
9. The reason why air pressure should not used in a hydrostatic test:
A. Air pressure is not used for hydrostatic test rather recharging
B. Failure of the test could result to danger
C. It cannot withstand the SOP in using air pressure for such test
D. All of the choices
10. What ventilation is applied when the firemen will eliminate large quantities of air &
smoke with the use of portable blower powered by either electric motors or gasoline
engines?
A. Crams Ventilation
B. Horizontal Ventilation
C. Forced Ventilation
D. Vertical Ventilation
11. If a building is used for storing fire fighting apparatus, that building should have:
A. Fire alarm
B. Fire boxes
C. Fire hydrant
D. Fire station
12. If a fire investigator meticulously searched the fire scene, he is doing his
responsibility which is:
A. Being an arsonist
B. Determining the cause of fire
C. Determining the origin of fire
D. Determining the readiness of men to fight fire
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13. The change that occurs in the fire either in plaster or gypsum wall surface.
A. Glass indication
B. Crazing
C. Calcinations
D. None of the choices
14. If the firemen are observing everything that take place upon arriving at the crime
scene, he is conducting:
A. Arson
B. Arson Detection
C. Arson Investigation
D. Arson Observation
15. The radiant energy that travels from the sun to the earth is called:
A. Gravitational energy
B. Heat energy
C. Kinetic energy
D. Solar energy
16. The device used to measure stored energy on plants and animals is called;
A. Bomb Calorimeter
B. Sphygmomanometer
C. Thermometer
D. All of the choices
17. A fire had occurred in the residence of Bilao. When the fire had been suppressed, they
found out that their fire extinguisher had turn into dust. What should the Bilao family
do with such extinguisher?
A. They should send it to authorized testing facility
B. They should let it be repainted and refilled
C. They should let it be destroyed
D. All of the choices
18. Considered as the most significant part of the fire?
A. Chemical chain reaction
B. Fuel
C. Heat
D. Oxygen
19. The result when the temperature of a fuel is raise to its ignition temperature.
A. Auto-ignition occur
B. Chemical chain reaction occur
C. Oxidation takes place
D. Spontaneous heating occur
20. A fire had occurred inside Borgy’s apartment. He is trying to escape by opening the
door or even windows of his room. Being too hard and too tight, he was not able to open
it, and the heat produced by the fire had increased and reached its highest point. This
resulted to the flame sweeping over Borgy’s apartment. What situation had occur?
A. Back draft
B. Explosion
C. Flashover
D. Mushrooming
21. Prosecutors are under the control and supervision of:
A. Department of Interior and Local Government
B. Department of Justice
C. National bureau of Investigation
D. Supreme Court
22. Ways and means are resorted for the purpose of trapping and capturing the law breaker
during the execution of a criminal act.
A. Buy bust Operation
B. Entrapment
C. Instigation
D. Both a and b
23. A special qualification for an undercover agent.
A. Excellent built
B. Excellent eyesight
C. Excellent books
D. Excellent memory
24. The questioning of a person by law enforcement officers after that person has been
taken into custody.
A. Interrogation
B. Preliminary Investigation
C. Custodial Investigation
D. Cross Examination
25. It is being done to obtain admission and confession of one’s guilt.
A. Surveillance
B. Investigation
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 C. Interrogation
D. Interview
26. Such facts and circumstances that would lead a reasonably discreet and prudent man to
believe that an offense had been committed and that the object sought in connection
with the offense are in place sought to be searched.
A. Res Ipsa Loquitur
B. Probable Cause
C. Prejudicial Question
D. Prima Face evidence
27. Police seek to prevent crime by being present in places where crimes might be
committed and by alerting citizens to refrain from practices that make them or their
property vulnerable.
A. Police intelligence
B. Order Maintenance
C. Opportunity Denial
D. Criminal Investigation
28. A statement of the suspect directly acknowledging his guilt
A. Deposition
B. Confession
C. Admission
D. Accusation
29. A direct acknowledgement of the truth of the guilty fact as charge or of some
essential part of the commission of the criminal act itself.
A. Accusation
B. Admission
C. Confession
D. Deposition
30. A self-incriminatory statement by the subject falling short of an acknowledgement of
guilt.
A. Accusation
B. Admission
C. Confession
D. Deposition
31. Involves a number of persons who might have handled evidence between the time of the
commission of the alleged offense and the disposition of the case should be kept to a
minimum.
A. Chain of command
B. Chain of Custody
C. Evidence Tracking
D. Tracing Evidence
32. A person who gives necessary information to the investigator. He may give the
information openly and even offer to be a witness or he may inform the investigator
surreptitiously and request to remain anonymous.
A. Expert Witness
B. Hostile Witness
C. Informant
D. Witness
33. The use of an equipment or tool to listen and record discreetly conversations of other
people.
A. Bugging
B. Dubbing
C. Mimicking
D. Tapping
34. An objective of criminal investigation
A. Determine the motive
B. Identify criminals
C. Rehabilitate criminals
D. Prevent crimes
35. A term used to describe a transition, which occurs in the development of a fire, when
for example; most of all the combustible surfaces within a room are heated above their
ignition temperature at the same time.
A. Flash over
B. Intensity
C. Ignition
D. Starter
36. A term of the start of the combustion, its detailed process of a solid is very
complicated, since the proportion of different flammable vapor varies from one material
to another and contact with oxygen must take place before combustion can begin.
A. Flash over
B. Ignition
C. Intensity
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37. The transfer of heat within a solid material from hotter to cooler parts
A. Ignition
B. Conduction
C. Convection
D. Radiation
38. The term describes the transfer of heat through a gas or a vacuum in a similar way to
that of light.
A. Ignition
B. Conduction
C. Convection
D. Radiation
39. Most malicious fires are set by individuals secretly; it is either set for revenge or
self-aggrandizing, or set by psychotic fire setter, or for sexual gratification.
A. Arson for profit
B. Fire starter
C. Group fire setter
D. Solitary fire setter
40. It is observed in structural fires and can be an indicator of the fire travel and
point of origin.
A. Alligatoring
B. Charring
C. Pour pattern
D. V pattern
41. A pattern or network of fire, irregular lines in glass and wood.
A. Charring
B. Crazing
C. Light bulbs
D. Spalling
42. A total employed by an arsonist to delay the start of the fire and allow him to
established an alibi.
A. Accelerants
B. Delaying Tactic
C. Stopper
D. Timing Device
43. It can be readily identified b their distinctive odors, and the most Common examples
are gasoline, turpentine and kerosene.
A. Accelerants
B. Timing device
C. Stopper
D. Trailer
44. This catalytic combustion device is the most common means employed to detect flammable
vapors.
A. Accelerants
B. Sniffer
C. Stopper
D. Timing Device
45. A mass movement in a fluid, an example a liquid or a gas where fluid at one
temperature and density moves under the influence of gravity at different temperature.
A. Combustion
B. Conduction
C. Convection
D. Radiation
46. The temperature at w/c a liquid is transformed or converted to vapor.
A. Burning Point
B. Freezing Point
C. Boiling Point
D. Melting Point
47. The force that tends to pull all objects to the center of the earth.
A. Inertia
B. Gravity
C. Friction
D. Energy
48. An occurrence in a sequence of events, w/c usually produces unintended injury, death
or property damage.
A. Traffic accident
B. Traffic event
C. Traffic hazard
D. Traffic incident
49. Any motor vehicle accident occurring on a traffic way.
A. Non-motor vehicle traffic accident
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 B. Non-motor vehicle non-traffic accident
C. Motor vehicle non-traffic accident
D. Motor vehicle traffic accident
50. The following are the 3E’s of Traffic Management and Operation except one.
A. Evaluation
B. Engineering
C. Enforcement
D. Education
51. Drugs that produce perceptual alteration varying emotional change, thought disruption
and ego disruption. Also called as psychedelics.
A. Tranquilizers
B. Stimulants
C. Hallucinogens
D. Depressants
52. Drugs w/c produces insensibility, stupor, melancholy or dullness of the mind with
delusions.
A. Stimulants
B. Narcotics
C. Hallucinogens
D. Depressants
53. An inter-departmental agency that enforce and carry out the law against illegal drugs.
A. Bureau of Food and Drugs
B. Dangerous Drugs Board
C. Food and Drug Administration
D. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency
54. Another term for psychological drug addiction.
A. Drug Dependence
B. Drug Habituation
C. Drug Pushing
D. Drug Net Consciousness
55. A warrant of arrest, compared to a search warrant, has a permanent lifetime. Can this
lifetime permanency by recalled?
A. No, as from the name itself it is permanent so it is forever applied
B. Yes, if it is being recalled by the PNP Chief
C. No, for it is a warrant of arrest, it should not be recalled
D. Yes, if it is recalled by the court which issued such warrant
56. Which of the following document issued is being signed only by the owner of the seized
property after a certain seized
A. Analysis of Property Seized
B. Certification of Property Seized
C. Receipt for Property Seized
D. Ticket for Property Seized
57. Which of the following documents issued is being signed only by the seizing officer
and the witnesses of the search operation?
A. Analysis of Property Seized
B. Certification of Property Seized
C. Receipt for Property Seized
D. Ticket for Property Seized
58. On what material a dry blood can be collected through scraping?
A. On a school uniform
B. On a pad paper
C. On a narra tree
D. On a cotton ball
59. Which of the following can be allowed to be done while collecting wet blood on
clothing?
A. Drying the clothing before packaging
B. Exposing the clothing to sunlight
C. Folding the clothing
D. Packaging the clothing while blood is still wet
60. Avenues of approach is the same with Avenues of Escape.
A. This statement is TRUE
B. This statement is FALSE
C. This statement is BROAD
D. This statement is CONTRADICTORY
61. How important is means of transportation in a homicide investigation?
A. Considered as Places of Importance
B. Considered as Persons of Importance
C. Considered as Time of Importance
D. Considered as Things of Importance
62. Which of the following is considered as the most important place of importance?
A. Avenues of Approach
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 B. Avenues of Escape
C. The Crime scene
D. Both A and C
63. A place of importance which emphasize how the investigating team arrives at the crime
scene.
A. Avenues of Approach
B. Avenues of Escape
C. The Crime Scene
D. Both A and C
64. How should the investigators perform investigation if in case they were able to
confirm that a certain situation is actually a case of kidnapping and not merely a case
of “missing person’?
A. Investigate in a very open way
B. Investigate with utmost controversy
C. Investigate with utmost secrecy
D. Investigate in the hardest way
65. In a kidnapping case, what should the investigator do to the ransom money before it
will be actually given to the kidnappers?
A. record the time and place you are going to give the money
B. record the denomination and serial numbers of the bill to be given
C. record the name of the kidnappers who is going to accept the money
D. separate the genuine ransom money and the fake ransom money that you are going to
give to the kidnappers
66. What is empathy, a behavior which you should do when you are interviewing sex
offenders?
A. Employing force towards the sex offenders for them to be guilty of the crime
B. Employing “face-saving” remarks so that the criminal will have conscience enough to
admit the crime
C. Employing “excitement aids” so that the offender will feel the same about what he
did to the victim
D. Employing yourself to be in the position just like the suspect especially in his
actions, words and feelings
67. What is the most important thing you should do when you are to interview sex
offenders?
A. Employing “face-saving” remarks
B. Employing empathy
C. Being prepared in your opening
D. Asking direct questions to the accused
68. In the interview of a rape victim, how many people is necessary inside the room aside
from the victim and investigator?
A. The complete 10 members of the raiding team
B. The complete 10 members of the victim’s family
C. The complete witnesses of the crime
D. If necessary, no one, only the investigator and the victim
69. Which of the following traffic accidents specifically involves motor vehicles?
A. Non-motor Vehicle Traffic Accident
B. Motor Vehicle non-Traffic Accident
C. Motor Vehicle Traffic Accident
D. Traffic Accident
70. In the protection of the accident scene in a traffic accident, what does it mean by
the phrase, “First things first”.
A. The measurements of the road should be first to be taken or measured
B. The location of the road where the accident happen should be the first to be taken
for the victims might still be there
C. The position of the vehicle where the car was found
D. Both B and C
71. Which of the following stages a hit-and-run accident?
A. Zoila, driving her car along the Xerox street was able to hit a pussycat
B. Therdy, driving her Pedi cab along Copt street following the policies properly on
traffic rules
C. Rodly, driving his motorcycle along Sensory Mall when he hit a girl and immediately
get out from the scene
D. Sierra, driving her truck along Chukkas Department when she hit another car and
accidentally hit the driver
72. What is TRUE about investigation of Hit-and-Run accidents?
A. There is a different way of investigation in every traffic accident
B. There is a similar way investigation in every traffic accident
C. Ways of investigation in traffic accident is different from investigation in Hit-
and-run accident
D. Ways of investigation in traffic accident is similar from investigation in Hit-and-
run accident
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73. According to the law, which of the following is considered as a “motor vehicle”?
A. Tricycle
B. Trolley cars
C. Taxi cabs
D. Both A and C
74. According to the law, which of the following is NOT considered as a motor vehicle?
A. Tricycle
B. Trolley cars
C. Taxi cabs
D. None of the choices
75. What should be done when approaching a motor vehicle accident scene?
A. Be alert for cars leaving the scene
B. Drive safety in going to the accident scene
C. Determine of cars leaving the scene were the actual perpetrators
D. Verify the information
76. How skid marks are used as evidence in traffic accident cases?
A. It indicates if the driver failed to observe the right of way
B. It shows that the vehicle travels in a proper direction
C. It emphasize that the driver accomplishes a traffic warning
D. All of the choices
77. Motor clearances are given to motor vehicle users to say that they did not obtain
their car illegally. It is necessary that they bring the vehicle to the headquarters?
A. Yes, to see if it newly-painted or brand new
B. No, it will only be hazard to the driver
C. Yes, to determine if the information written by the driver on the clearance is the
same with what is observed on the car
D. No, for it will only let the police realize that the car is really “Car-napped”
78. Who shall provide the motor clearance
A. PNP-CIDG Headquarters
B. PNP-HPG Headquarters
C. PNP-SAGDS Headquarters
D. PNP-TMG Headquarters
79. How does Section 2 R.A. 6538 define the term “car napping”?
A. Taking of a motor vehicle belonging to another with his consent
B. Taking of a motor vehicle belonging to another without his consent but also without
the intent to gain
C. Taking of a motor vehicle belonging to another with his consent but with intent to
gain
D. Taking of a motor vehicle belonging to another without his consent and with the
intent to gain
80. All of the foregoing are the basic elements of Criminal investigation, except one.
Which of the following is the exemption?
A. Reservation
B. Collection
C. Evaluation
D. Interpretation
81. It is the scientific investigation of real evidence with the application of
instruments and methods of the physical sciences in detecting crimes.
A. Triangulation
B. Instrumentation
C. Physical examination
D. Neuro examination
82. It is one of the basic elements of criminal investigation that refers to the act of
gathering those identified data or facts or physical things that are significant to the
case under investigation.
A. Recognition
B. Evaluation
C. Collection
D. Preservation
83. It is considered to be the simple questioning of the suspect of having committed a
crime that includes the name, address and the other information relevant to the case
under investigation.
A. Interrogation
B. Interview
C. Interview and interrogation
D. All of the foregoing
84. Another element of criminal investigation that involves the efforts of identifying
data, including physical things that may provide relevant information regarding the
criminal case being investigated. It is otherwise known as identification.
A. Preserving
B. Collecting
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 C. Presenting
D. Evaluating
85. It is the close and direct observation of persons, places and things for the purposed
of obtaining information about the subject:
A. Intelligence
B. Surveillance
C. Roping
D. Shadowing
86. It is the process of determining the probative value of the evidence that refers to
the strength of the evidence or its worth/weight in successfully establishing a proof
that a crime has in fact been committed and that the suspect is the one who is
responsible for the commission.
A. Presentation
B. Collection
C. Recognition
D. Evaluation
87. All of the following are the purposes and use of the 5 E’s and the H. Which of the
four doesn’t belong to the group:
A. Aid the investigator in searching the crime scene or other places which may be
sources of evidences.
B. It will guide the investigator in formulating questions towards the judge during
court proceedings of the case.
C. Assist the investigator and the desk officer in making brief statements of facts in
the logbook or police blotter and in the reports.
D. Help the investigator in preparing the modus operandi report on How was the crime
being committed.
88. These are the questions that endeavor to ascertain the motives, causes, antecedents,
previous related facts, background occurrences that might help explain the commission
of the offense.
A. How questions
B. Why questions
C. Where questions
D. What questions
89. When two or more person’s come to an agreement regarding a commission of a crime and
decided to commit it.
A. Conspiracy
B. Agreement
C. Imputability
D. Responsibility
90. What is the main purpose of the golden rule in criminal investigation?
A. To avoid destruction of the physical evidences.
B. To avoid contamination of the evidences.
C. To avoid mutilation of the pieces of evidence.
D. To avoid what are enumerated above.
91. Is that practical science that treats the principle of human morality and duty as
applied to law enforcement:
A. Police Loyalty
B. Police Ethics
C. Police Intelligence
D. Police Investigation
92. Who is the founder of Criminal Investigation in the United State of America?
A. Allan Jackson
B. Allan Pinkerton
C. Eugene Francois Vidoque
D. Thomas Byrnes
93. In contemporary point of view, it is defined in many ways. It can be defined as an art
and science that deals with the identity leading to the apprehension of the suspect.
A. Criminal
B. Investigation
C. Criminal Investigation
D. Criminal Identification
94. It is the collection and analysis of facts/truths about persons, things, places,
subject of a crime from identification until to the presentation of evidence in
Criminal Proceedings.
A. interrogation
B. investigation
C. Criminal Investigation
D. Criminal Identification
95. The classification of information as to its sources which are acquired from records,
files from the government and non-government agencies or news items.
A. regular sources
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 B. Cultivated sources
C. Grapevines sources
D. Informants
96. The element of sketch that a standard arrow is used to indicate the north direction of
the crime scene.
A. Measurements
B. Scale of Proportion
C. Essential items
D. Compass direction
97. What is the new concept that was introduced in 1918 in the Field of Criminal
Investigation, where Police are assigned to patrol and investigate all Criminal
matters?
A. Police Community Relations (PCR)
B. Human Relations
C. Team Policing
D. Team Building
98. The general type of suspect identification wherein the Information is developed after
comparing questioned and inked fingerprints and/or result of DNA Analysis of Blood or
semen.
A. General identification
B. Personal identification
C. Positive identification
D. Tracing identification
99. The following are the scope of criminal identification, except:
A. Suspect ID
B. ID of actual perpetrators
C. ID of dead body of victims
D. All of the above
100. It is one of the two form s of information that involves the use of the five senses
in acquiring information.
A. sensational Technique
B. sensory form
C. physical form
D. technical form

END OF PART TWO

CRIDIP – PART TWO
1. When a fire propagated such that there’s a block of burning houses, there’s already
a _____.

1.A 51.C
2.C 52.D
3.B 53.D
4.A 54.A
5.D 55.D
6.C 56.C
7.A 57.B
8.C 58.C
9.B 59.A
10.C 60.B
11.D 61.D
12.A 62.C
13.C 63.A
14.B 64.C
15.D 65.B
16.A 66.D
17.C 67.C
18.B 68.D
19.A 69.C
20.C 70.B
21.B 71.C
22.B 72.D
23.D 73.D
24.A 74.B
25.C 75.D
26.B 76.A
27.C 77.C
28.B 78.B
29.C 79.D

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 30.B 80.A
31.B 81.C
32.C 82.C
33.A 83.B
34.B 84.D
35.B 85.B
36.B 86.D
37.B 87.B
38.B 88.D
39.C 89.A
40.D 90.D
41.B 91.B
42.D 92.B
43.A 93.D
44.B 94.C
45.C 95.A
46.C 96.D
47.B 97.C
48.A 98.C
49.D 99.C
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