- PUAPOL028B - Manage investigation information processes
Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
PUAPOL028B Mapping and Delivery Guide
Manage investigation information processes
Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024
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Unit of Competency | PUAPOL028B - Manage investigation information processes |
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| Description | This unit covers the competency to gather and process information pertaining to criminal investigations undertaken by designated investigators.No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication. | ||
| Employability Skills | This unit contains employability skills. | ||
| Learning Outcomes and Application | The application for this unit has not been fully developed. It will be reviewed as part of the process of implementing the Design Model for Streamlined Training Package Material. | ||
| Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. |
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| Prerequisites/co-requisites | Not applicable. | ||
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| Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
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| Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
| Element: Use information-gathering techniques |
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| Element: Evaluate information |
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| Element: Respond to information |
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Evidence Required
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Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit | It is essential for this unit that competence be demonstrated in the gathering of information that is accurate and relevant to the investigation. Consistency in performance Evidence of competency in this unit will need to be gathered over time and from across a range of simulated and/or actual workplace activities. |
Context of and specific resources for assessment | Context of assessment Evidence should be gathered over a period of time in a range of actual or simulated workplace environments. Specific resources for assessment No special requirements. |
Submission Requirements
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Assessment task 1: [title] Due date:
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Assessment Tasks
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This describes the essential skills and knowledge and their level, required for this unit. |
Required Skills |
written and oral communication (listening, establishing rapport, public relations, negotiation, conflict resolution, feedback) sourcing collecting and evaluating diverse pieces of information using information storage and retrieval systems classifying information validating information compliance with operational safety guidelines when dealing with informants identifying and managing informants disseminating information in appropriate forms |
Required Knowledge |
organisational corporate goals and objectives legislation and organisational guidelines relevant to information collection storage and retrieval including FOI and Privacy legislation organisational guidelines for dealing with informants investigative processes including surveillance and intelligence processes pertaining to the area of investigational responsibility information sources security classification criteria and dissemination protocols information evaluation processes for establishing validity and reliability professional codes of conduct/ethics relating to the investigatory process |
The Range Statement relates to the Unit of Competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording in the Performance Criteria is detailed below. | |
Potential sources of information may include: | internal (documents/databases, intelligence, specialist sections such as covert/surveillance policing, technical services and forensic services and other police) external (witnesses, victims/suspects/informants/ informers, government agencies and authorities, private agencies, literature, members of the public, surveillance) |
Informants may be cultivated and managed in the following ways: | researching background reliability communicating with persons at all levels recording information accurately displaying knowledge of specialist crime culture and terminology identifying motives of informants (these may include money, revenge, consideration of penalty, civic duty) controlling informants effectively registering informants correctly maintaining personal integrity anonymity and own counsel maintaining contact with informants regularly being self-motivated in cultivating informants |
Evidence may include: | direct circumstantial physical opinion documentary hearsay |
Information systems are: | either computer based or manual. What relevant information systems are depends on: importance of information sensitivity of information reliability of information where information is to be disseminated |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist
| Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice | Yes | No | Comments/feedback |
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| Potential sources of information are identified and assessed | |||
| Identified sources of information are utilised | |||
| Information is obtained from identified sources, in accordance with organisational guidelines, Freedom of Information and Privacy legislation | |||
| Informants are cultivated and managed | |||
| Persons/locations of interest are monitored | |||
| Elements of offence and coronial needs are identified | |||
| Persons/locations of interest are identified and profiles maintained | |||
| All potential intelligence/evidence is identified from obtained information | |||
| The validity and integrity of the information is evaluated fairly and objectively | |||
| Relevant information is used to inform decision-making | |||
| Information is corroborated independently where possible | |||
| Information is placed into relevant information systems in accordance with organisational policy and procedures | |||
| Information is communicated to relevant areas | |||
| Security of information is maintained | |||
| Information gathered is responded to through immediate action or further inquiry or filing |
Forms
Assessment Cover Sheet
PUAPOL028B - Manage investigation information processes
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Assessment Record Sheet
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