Lopez, Marc Jayson N.

BSCRIM 3A

ACTIVITY 1 INTRODUCTION TO QUESTIONED DOCUMENT EXAMINATION

General Instruction: Please provide the best answer. Attach the answers on a separate file.

1. Discuss the following:

A. Questioned Document Examination

Answer: Questioned document examination is the process of carefully and critically analyzing
any document that has been contested, challenged, or attacked in order to ascertain its veracity.

B. Types of Documents
Answer: Types of questioned documents includes Public document notarized by competent
public official with solemnity required by the law, Official document issued by government or
officers authorized to issue in the performance of their duties, Private documents executed by
private person without the intervention of notary or any legal person, Commercial document
executed by any mercantile law, containing commercial rights or obligation and Electronic
document exist in form of data stored on computer, network backup or other storage media.

C. Related Field of Study in QDE

Answer: Historical dating it involves the verification of age and worth of document, Fraud
Investigation it focuses on the money trail, Paper and ink Specialists- These are public or private
experts who date, type, source, Forgery specialist public or private experts who analyze, altered,
obliterated, changed, or doctored documents and photos using infrared lighting and other
equipment, Handwriting analysis these are psychology experts who assess personality traits,
Typewriting analysis these are experts on the origin, make and model used in typewritten
documents, and Computer Crime Investigation and Imprint Examination Including those
produced by manual devices, mechanical devices and electronic printing devices.