Investigative Interviewing
Get the key skills to interview witnesses, obtain witness statements and interview suspects effectively.
Course details
Many professionals are required to conduct interviews in situations where the information obtained may be vital evidence in later proceedings.
Failure to conduct these interviews properly may result in evidence being inadmissible, unreliable or without weight. It may adversely affect the fairness of any subsequent legal hearing.
In partnership with Bond Solon, this course will give you the key skills to interview witnesses, obtain witness statements and interview suspects effectively and to best practice standards, enabling you to maximise the evidence you gain during such interviews.
This training course can count towards the eight-day nationally recognised qualification – the Advanced Professional Certificate in Investigative Practice – or towards the two-day Advanced Award in Investigative Interviewing.
What will I learn?
- Effectively planning and preparing for different types of interviews
- Different questioning techniques and when to use them
- How to structure interviews
- Maximising the impact of disclosing evidence before and during the interview
- Different types of interviews, including dealing with suspects and non-suspects
- Dealing effectively with solicitors, trade union representatives, silences and selective answering
- Handling inconsistencies in the account given by the interviewee and with other available evidence
- Balancing the investigator’s powers with the individual’s rights
- Role play of fact-finding, witness and/or suspect interviews
Course format
Duration: Two days
Format: Virtual classroom