Suspects

Question 1

Identifications of suspect

Answer 1

1) The circumstances of the fire
2) Fingerprints
3) Information from the informants and witnesses
4) Media response
5) Police resources such as intelligence
6) 4Q at prisons, hospitals, rehabs and schools
7) Information from fire crews

Question 2

The suspect may include;

Answer 2

• The owner/occupier for insurance fraud
• An employee to cover theft
• A criminal to cover traces of a crime
• An Aggrieved person
• A pyromaniac suffering mental illness

Question 3

Complete 4Q to establish suspects;

Answer 3

• Opportunity
• Motive
• Means rea
• Connection with scene and crime
• Character
• Mental background
• History
• Movements
• Behavior