With the rise in reported crime to law enforcement agencies across the county, administrators were faced with attempting to solve many more cases than in the past. The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration conducted a study and found that to produce a greater number of solved crimes; agencies should adapt the Managing Criminal Investigations model. The MCI program focus on investigating crimes that have a higher probability of being solved and bypassing those crimes that are not likely to be solved. This model also relies on patrol officers conducting complete initial reports and follow up investigations to aid detectives (Dempsey & Forst, 2016). Patrol officers are required to determine if enough evidence is available for the crime to
