Criminal major case management

"The Persons of Interest Priority Assessment Tool (POIPAT) is a new tool for investigations with numerous persons of interests and/or minimal investigative resources. It provides an objective method to rank those suspects who are most likely to have committed the offense and dedicate their resources to those persons first. This method of targeting likely offenders has the potential to not only save a significant amount of investigative resources but more importantly, other potential victims. This book aims to assist readers in creating a POIPAT unique to their investigation. It includes a CD-ROM with a template that can be modified for any type of investigation and a number of additional tools and guides"-- "Preface Prioritizing suspects or persons of interest (POIs) is nothing new. As long as investigators have been investigating cases involving multiple suspects, they have been deciding whom on their list they feel is the most likely to have committed their offence(s). Sometimes this is based on the investigation and forensic evidence, and often times on just a gut feeling or intuition. This approach has served investigators well over the years when the suspect/ POI pool was rela