application: strategies for police interviews

Question 1

What is the interview technique for interviewing suspects?

Answer 1

Reids nine steps

Question 2

What are the components of Reids nine steps?

Answer 2

• interrogation technique = accusation, guilt presumptive, purpose is to gain a confession
• step one and nine are always in a fixed order 2-8 can vary
• step one = direct confrontation
• step nine = documentation of confession e.g., signed
• other aspects = never allow to deny guilt, reinforce sincerity

Question 3

What interview technique reduces the amount of false confessions?

Answer 3

PEACE technique

Question 4

What is the PEACE technique?

Answer 4

• largely based on ECI
• investigative interview rather than interrogation
• less confrontational
• more transparent than Reids nine steps

Question 5

What was suggested about improving accuracy of interviews?

Answer 5

recording them visually as well as auditory = more accurate

Question 6

What two types of interviews are deemed the most effective for police interviews?

Answer 6

cognitive interview and enhanced cognitive interview

Question 7

what are the components to the CI?

Answer 7

1- context reinstatement = most effective
2- report everything
3- narrative reordering
4- different perspectives

Question 8

why is the ECI an improvement to the CI?

Answer 8

has all of the strengths of the CI but improved in two areas
1- more standardised and structured = more reliable
2- rapport building and open questions