JDLR is a police term for ‘Just Don’t Look Right’ and essentially establishes ‘reasonable suspicion’ for an experienced officer. It is more than a guess or a hunch, and is based on articulate and specific facts that taken together with a rational inference of the facts that a suspicion must associated with a specific individual. Everyone in a group can be under reasonable suspicion specific to that individual. Reasonable suspicion is the basis of a ‘frisk’ or check for weapons. Reasonable suspicion is founded on the reasonable person standard. If a reasonable person would believe, given the facts and circumstances present that would lead them to believe a person is engaged our about to engage into a criminal activity, and depends on the totality of the circumstances, and is based on facts and circumstances, even if the person is innocuous.
Reasonable Suspicion VS Probable Cause
Reasonable suspicion supports the needs for further investigation and supports the officer in stop and short detention, a ‘street stop.’ If falls short or probable cause needed to arrest and individual. Probable cause is base on that fact and circumstance (evidence, witness declarations and suspect interrogation) that a reasonable person would believe that the accused had committed a crime. Reasonable cause establishes the right to investigate, probable cause establishes sufficient cause to arrest.
What Can Private Investigators Do Legally?
The private investigator investigating a criminal situation does not need reasonable cause, but must establish probable cause. Conversely, the private investigator has no authority to stop and detain. His is a purely investigative activity and does not include the authority of a ‘representative of the state’ being the police. The PI must cajole cooperation. Of course, in employee investigations cooperation is implied as to continued employment. The private investigator is hired to ascertain if a criminal act has occurred and to investigate the situation for criminal prosecution. The investigator is charged with the responsibility to accumulate sufficient probable cause for prosecution. He has no real police powers. He submits his case to the local PD who works up the arrest warrant. Good documentation and a body of evidence will get the job done. The PI has a duty to the employer, and as such are concerned with providing a service to him. They have already documented the concern of their employer to provide investigative services. Without the constraints placed on police, the PI can conduct investigations on mere suspicion of their employer.
Reasonable Suspicion in Criminal Investigations
Criminal investigations are limited to the employer’s domain, usually a business operation. However, criminal activities may be discovered during civil or domestic investigations. Generally, the employer of investigative services will have some concern or idea of a client or employee theft or embezzlement. If the private investigator is working an investigation with the police, he is an agent of the police and is therefore subject to all the restrictions of the governing police. Generally, the PI builds a case and submits it to the police for prosecution avoiding the ‘agent status.’ Criminal investigations may result from surveillance or security operations. A crime may be witnessed and totally be unconnected to the current investigative venture. An expected crime connected to the surveillance may also occur. So, criminality could become a part of even day to day operations, after all that is why security operations are implemented in the first place.
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