Personal description : an investigation technique to identify suspects

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Sefanyetso, Justice Thabang

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2009-11

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Personal description , Personal identification , Criminal investigation , Forensic investigation

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This study investigates the use of personal description as an investigation technique to identify suspects. The study entails qualitative data obtained from interviews with investigators, literature, as well as case studies. The study found that personal description can be used as an investigation technique to identify suspects. There are eight techniques that the investigator should apply in order to identify suspects or perpetrators of a criminal act. To conduct effective investigation, it is important for the criminal investigators to be familiar with the techniques of identification and the application thereof. The description of offenders plays an important role as far as arresting offenders is concerned. The methods used - or to be used - by investigators to describe a person were also discussed. It is important that the investigators should work with other government departments, private investigators and security officials, to implement this technique in order to identify and arrest offenders.

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Sefanyetso, Justice Thabang (2009) Personal description : an investigation technique to identify suspects, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3618>

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