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Introducing Investigative Material including digital material into a Suspect Interview, 10 December 2024

 

  • Agenda now live and included below

  • Provides contemporary best practice and challenges around introducing investigative material into a suspect interview

  • Considers the importance of introducing investigative material into a suspect interview and its role in the interview.

  • We’ll outline the definition of investigative material under the Criminal Procedure and Investigations (CPIA) Act 1996

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We’ll consider the different types of investigative material that include:

  • Overt investigations/operations

  • Victim injuries

  • Witness accounts

  • Medical reports

  • CCTV

  • Digital images

  • Exhibits/property recovered

  • Forensic evidence

  • Communications Data Analysis

  • Digital data

  • Financial data

  • Intelligence

  • We will provide operational best practice around which stage of the interview that

  • investigators should introduce investigative material and how this should be then

  • developed throughout the interview.

 

  • Our experts will consider common pitfalls and challenges, drawing on past investigations, and offer advice on how to address and minimise these challenges.

 

  • The workshop will include best practice around planning and preparation and the importance of devising an effective interview strategy.

 

  • We will also examine the structure and content of pre-interviews briefings with solicitors and consider issues around when investigative material should be revealed.

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  • Held online via Teams

  • Certificates of CPD available

 

AGENDA - GMT

9.30am-9.40am: Welcome and introduction, Carol Jenkins. The Investigator

9.40am-10.50am: Session One: The principles of Investigative Interview and Investigative Material

 

10.50am-11am: Questions

11am-11.20am: Break

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11.20am-12.40pm: Session Two: Strategic use of Investigative Material/Suspect Interview Strategy/Suspect Interview Planning

 

12.40pm-12.50pm: Questions

12.50pm-1.10pm: Break

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1.10pm-2.20pm: Session Three: The Challenge stage of the Suspect Interview/Evidence and Investigative Material

 

2.20pm-2.30pm CPD Opportunities available at the University of Sunderland

2.30pm: Workshop finishes

 

Our expert speakers

Our event is a collaboration with experts from the University of Sunderland, led by Professor Gary Shaw, MBE.

 

Gary was the previous NPCC/NCA National Investigative Interview Advisor where he led the efforts to implement the PEACE interview style into UK policing.

 

He has provided interview advice in many of the major investigations, he was responsible for introducing the role of the force interview advisors/champions and was at the forefront of investigative interview training.

 

He has over four decades service in the police service in both force and in national roles. He is now Professor of Professional Practice at the University of Sunderland.

 

Gary will be joined by two highly experienced interviewers, investigators and academic from the University of Sunderland, Dr Emma Spooner and Steve Hibbitt, QPM.

 

Emma is Programme Lead for the BA (Hons) Applied Investigation course, University of Sunderland. Emma is an experience investigator who has worked for the National Crime Agency and a UK police force.

 

Emma is a Tier three Specialist Suspect Interviewer and Tier five Interview Adviser and was part of the cadre of NPCC nationally approved interview advisors.

 

Steve is Programme Lead for MA Investigative Management, University of Sunderland. He is also co-author of Blackstone’s Crime Investigator’s Handbook and an experienced PIP3 SIO trainer and lecturer. He was also Deputy SIO on Operation Resolve, the independent inquiry into the causes of the Hillsborough Disaster.

 

Steve was also part of the NPCC nationally approved interview adviser cadre and has more than 40 years’ operational policing experience.

 

Who should attend?

Our workshop is ideal for operational investigators who regularly conduct investigative interviews and who want to develop and enhance existing skills.

 

It is also relevant for interview trainers and those who are responsible for delivering best practice to investigators.

 

It is also relevant for new to role investigators and those who want to develop their investigative interviewing skills.

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HOW TO BOOK

Cost: £189.75 + VAT (GBP) per delegate (LEA and Government Agency rate).  £229.75 + VAT (Industry rate). 

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Group bookings: We offer various discounts for group bookings depending on numbers, please contact us for details.

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Booking: Please send the delegates name(s), email address(es) and purchase order (made out to The Investigator) to booking@the-investigator.co.uk or telephone +44(0)844 660 8707 for further information. 

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Payment can be made by PayPal/debit/credit card (corporate card fees apply + 3%). ​The meeting link will be sent out 7 days before the event.

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