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Crimestoppers textbook

The Professional way to describe criminals:

You can never tell when you might witness a crime. Any detail however insignificant that you remember may clinch a conviction and put a villain behind bars. You must be ready to describe exactly everyone around you.

Do they sit pigeon-toed or knock kneed? Do their fat, short, stumpy legs mean they sit on tip toe? Splay-footed? Do they have long shanks? Unfashionably short trousers revealing boney ankles? Diamond pattern socks?

The woman opposite you with blood red nails covers her mouth: does she always yawn when she has something to hide?

Do they wear wedding rings? Have they removed wedding rings? Look for tell-tale puffiness on the third finger left hand. Can an alert observer note that their ears have been pierced?

Are they behaving suspiciously in any way? For example do they seem unusually fixated on the people around them, staring at them intently?

Use the 253 description code: Categorize people! Are they:

  • puny: (short and thin)
  • squat: (short and fat)
  • fat: (medium to tall but bloated)
  • scrawny: (tall and skinny)
  • apple on a stick: (skinny with a pot belly).

    Are their faces:

  • oblong,
  • round,
  • square
  • or cumquat-shaped?

    Is their hair

  • permed like a poodle?
  • crisp with gel?
  • blue with rinse?
  • bacon-streaky with tints?

    Do they suffer from receding hair, facial scars or other disfigurations? Do they wear anoraks? Pink and purple anoraks?

    Remember: the price of vigilance is eternal freedom.

    Shop your neighbours!
    Use the 253
    Interpersonal Description Guide!


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