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ACCIDENTAL CHARACTERISTICS - Indications
peculiar to one weapon or to each cartridge case
and bullet fired in the same gun.

ACCIDENTAL CRIMINALS - are those who commit
crimes when the situation is conducive to its
commission.

ACCIDENTAL WHORL - is a fingerprint pattern which
is a combination of two or more different types of
pattern except in the plain arch. It can be a
combination of a loop and a whorl, a loop and a
central pocket loop whorl, or any combination of
two or more different loops and whorl type
patterns. Symbolized by letter “X” in the
fingerprint classification.

ACCOMPLICE – those who, not being principals
cooperate in the execution of the offense by
previous or simultaneous acts (Art. 18, RPC).

ACCOUNTABILITY – the ways in which organizations
and individuals are rendered answerable for their
policies and day-to-day activities, exerted by
internal and external mechanisms.

ACCOUNTABLE PUBLIC OFFICER – a public officer
who has been duly entrusted with government
funds or property.

ACCURATE (EFFECTIVE) RANGE - distance within
which the firer has control of his shots.

ACCUSE – to formally charge or declare another
person of being guilty of a punishable offense. A
statement or defense attempting to prove that a

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