Question

The police detain a man fitting the description of a felon after a robbery had just occurred. They bring the cashier to identify the man as the robber. What type of identification procedure is this? Why?

Answer 1

When we speak of identifcation procedures that are used to identify a suspected criminal, there are three general policies, as per the existing criminology, that are used. These are called as identification procedures and the three types of the identification procedures are :

1. Show up

2. Line up

3. Photographic allay

In a show up procedure, the accused is brought before the witness so that the latter can identify the criminal.

In a line up, all the criminals are lined up from and the eye witness is allowed to identify the criminal from the people who were earlier convicted of similar crimes.

In a photographic allay, several photographs are presented to the eye witness so that he can identify the criminal by looking at the photograph.

In the present scenario, the police brought the cashier to some X person to identify if this person was the robber. This is a classic example of SHOW UP identification procedure.