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FGR Oficial Investigador B study plan

FGR Oficial Investigador B · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Derecho Penal Sustantivo

  • Map the general part of criminal law (applicability of the criminal statute, theories of the offense, imputation, culpability, participation) into a structured outline covering every element tested on the FGR investigator exam.

  • Distinguish the categories of penalties, security measures, and extinction of criminal action and punishment, writing a one-page comparison table from memory.

  • Resolve 30 practice items on the general part, logging each error with the specific rule that was misapplied.

  • Explain in writing how concurso de delitos, iter criminis, and autoría mediata interact in a single hypothetical case.

Your checkpoint

A 10-page handwritten or typed outline of the general part plus an error log of 30 solved items with corrected legal reasoning.

Week 2

Derecho Penal Sustantivo

  • Classify the specific offenses most relevant to federal investigation (organized crime, drug offenses, firearms, kidnapping, money laundering, human trafficking) by protected legal interest, elements, and penalty ranges.

  • Compare aggravated and attenuated variants of at least eight federal offenses and record the statutory basis for each distinction.

  • Draft short fact patterns and correctly subsume them under the applicable offense, citing elements rather than conclusions.

  • Answer 40 mixed specific-part items under timed conditions and score above 70 percent.

Your checkpoint

A one-page offense-by-element reference sheet for eight federal crimes plus a timed 40-item practice set scored and reviewed.

Week 3

Derecho Procesal Penal y Sistema Penal Acusatorio

  • Sequence the stages of the acusatorio adversarial process from initial investigation through execution of sentence, identifying the procedural act that opens and closes each stage.

  • Differentiate the roles and powers of the Ministerio Público, the judge of control, the trial court, and the defense, producing a role matrix.

  • Explain the rules on evidence exclusion, legality of detention, and the hearing framework for formulating the imputation.

  • Solve 25 procedural items and justify each answer by naming the governing constitutional or statutory provision.

Your checkpoint

A procedural timeline flowchart with a role matrix and 25 justified answers to practice items.

Week 4

Derecho Procesal Penal y Sistema Penal Acusatorio & Derechos Humanos y Control de Legalidad

  • Analyze the constitutional and conventional standards on due process, presumption of innocence, and effective judicial protection, and apply them to three detention scenarios.

  • Identify the legal remedies available against acts of the Ministerio Público and against judicial rulings, and state the deadline and forum for each.

  • Evaluate the limits on pretrial detention and arraigo against human rights standards and write a reasoned position on a borderline case.

  • Complete a 30-item mixed set on procedural guarantees and control of legality with at least 75 percent correct.

Your checkpoint

A comparative table of legal remedies with deadlines and forums, plus a written case analysis of pretrial detention applying human rights standards.

Week 5

Criminalística y Ciencias Forenses & Metodología de la Investigación Criminal y Cadena de Custodia

  • Match each forensic discipline (ballistics, dactyloscopy, forensic genetics, toxicology, document examination, crime scene processing) to the type of evidence it produces and its evidentiary limits.

  • Describe the correct processing sequence of a crime scene and the packaging, labeling, and transfer rules that preserve the chain of custody.

  • Trace a simulated piece of evidence from collection to trial and document every link, identifying where the chain could be broken.

  • Draft a chain-of-custody record and an expert report summary that would withstand cross-examination.

Your checkpoint

A completed chain-of-custody form for a simulated case plus a two-page expert report summary and a one-page table of forensic disciplines and evidentiary limits.

Week 6

Metodología de la Investigación Criminal y Cadena de Custodia & Técnicas de Entrevista, Interrogatorio y Análisis de Información

  • Formulate an investigation plan that states hypotheses, lines of inquiry, and evidence-gathering steps for a given fact pattern.

  • Distinguish interview, interrogation, and witness statement, and apply the legal limits on each, including the prohibition of coercion and the right to counsel.

  • Practice structuring open-ended questions and detecting inconsistencies in a written transcript, producing a corrected interview guide.

  • Build a timeline and link chart from a set of case facts and identify the two most probative leads.

Your checkpoint

A full investigation plan for a simulated case including a revised interview guide and an analytical timeline with identified leads.

Week 7

Derecho Constitucional y Administrativo Aplicado & Ética, Responsabilidad Profesional y Régimen Disciplinario

  • Summarize the constitutional framework of the security and justice system, including the distribution of federal and state competences relevant to FGR functions.

  • Identify the administrative obligations of the public servant (declarations, conflicts of interest, confidentiality) and the consequences of breach.

  • Classify disciplinary infractions by gravity and match each to its sanction and procedure using the applicable regime.

  • Analyze three ethics scenarios and resolve each with explicit reference to the governing norm.

Your checkpoint

A two-page summary of administrative and disciplinary obligations plus three written ethics case resolutions citing specific norms.

Week 8

Razonamiento Lógico-Verbal y Habilidades Analíticas

  • Solve logical-verbal reasoning sets (analogies, syllogisms, sequencing, inference) under timed conditions and raise accuracy above 80 percent.

  • Apply analytical reading techniques to long legal texts and extract the holding, the rule, and the exception in under five minutes per text.

  • Run two full-length simulated exams covering all nine domains and review every missed item to root cause.

  • Consolidate a final one-page error digest of recurring weaknesses and the corrective rule for each.

Your checkpoint

Two completed full-length simulations with scores, a root-cause review, and a final one-page error digest.

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 70 percent on a 40-item mixed substantive criminal law set and demonstrate the ability to subsume a novel fact pattern under the correct offense with cited elements.

Week 4: Score at least 75 percent on a 30-item procedural and human rights set and produce a remedies table with correct deadlines and forums without consulting notes.

Week 6: Produce a complete investigation plan and chain-of-custody record for a simulated case, with every evidence link documented and no unjustified procedural gaps.

Week 8: Score at least 80 percent on both full-length simulations and show that no single domain falls below 60 percent.