Tuesday, 11 September 2007

Interview Techniques

Mr Bill is learning how to interview people - and that doesn't mean he can moonlight as one of those annoying people who wonder if you have time for a few questions, when you are out shopping.
He is learning to extract information from people - and it is much harder than you might think - if you have asked certain members of our extended family a simple question you might well end up getting a very long-winded answer full of spurious details (you know who you are).

After passing this part of the course Mr Bill will be a Tier 1 interviewer - only able to ask questions of people who have witnessed small, insignificant crimes. If you have witnessed a murder then there is no point pouring your story out to Mr Bill as you will only have to do it again when a Tier 3 interviewer is found.

There are several different types of witness too: vulnerable, significant, intimidated
There will be more posts on interviewing witnesses as next week is a continuation of the topic.

He has not begun to cover interviewing suspects yet.

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