Reply to discussion post professionally: "The most important crucial step in a follow-up investigation is evidence verification and corroboration. The following steps is crucial because it can ensure credibility, prevent wrongful actions, helps strengthen the case and identify any leads. Without these important crucial steps, it would be impossible to follow-up an investigation. With credibility verifying evidence and statements that they have collected this can help them solve a case without false misleading information. With having all this accurate information, they have collected this can prevent wrongful actions, this can help not arrest the wrong person and no wrong accusations needed. Another step that I think is crucial for a follow-up investigation is to strengthens the case being able to verify written evidence and have so much documentation down this can be very useful when the court is being delivered. To be able to identify leads is another example of a very important factor when it comes up to follow-up investigation because being able to identify any leads can be a very helpful key to these investigators figuring out who could've done such crime. Additionally, the resources needed to a follow-up is technical and human resources. Without having human resources, it is impossible to have any surveillance, interviews and even any analysis. Other resources needed in a follow-up investigation is technical resources, surveillance tools and database