Investigative Interviewing

Order Description
Using the ‘miscarriage of justice’ known as the ‘Cardiff Newsagent Three’ as an example of how police interviewing techniques have been called into question, discuss how investigative interviewing principles may be applied to maximise evidential opportunities at interviews with witnesses and suspects. Your response should seek to make reference to the PEACE model framework of interviewing and the ‘conversation management’ and ‘cognitive interviewing’ principles where relevant.

You should demonstrate how these Investigative Interviewing principles can be harnessed to facilitate ethical interviews in which the evidential integrity of witness and suspect accounts can be maintained whilst simultaneously safeguarding the interests of the vulnerable interviewee.

It is recommended that you base your analysis on the England and Wales Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) decision O’BRIEN, HALL and SHERWOOD, R v. [2000] EWCA Crim 3 (25th January, 2000) found at:

URL: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2000/3.html
Required word count: 3,000 (+ or – 10%)