24hrs in Police Custody

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Can't wait to see this series. The DC interviewing the man for conspiracy to murder reminds me of David Brent though....

Can someone clarify - even though Sniffer's victim/girlfriend withdrew her statement, he still got 12 months for harassment?

yes he did,i think the CPS prosecuted so no need for the victims statement even when it was retracted,the CPS will just go ahead and prosecute themselves if the evidence is there

Thanks - that's a good outcome.

even though Sniffer's victim/girlfriend withdrew her statement, he still got 12 months for harassment?
She may have been summoned to attend court. Or the investigator/witness care officer spent hours trying to persuade her to go of her own accord. Or he may have pleaded guilty on the day

ah yes it did say he pleaded guilty right at the end

I didnt think it was as good as last week though

Hang on a second ... the other interviewer wasn't a policeman?
What was he then? Why was he there? Why was he interviewing a suspect?

Don't have to be a warranted officer to interview. My force employ lots of civilian investigators. One of my current colleagues is a retired police officer, he retired as a DC on major crime and was reemployed as a civvy investigator in the same team. He did exactly the same as he did before -- just without some of the powers that the office of constable confers

yes that was a good one,i suppose as it was just one very serious case you can get really involved and it was on longer

does anyone know what next week has on it?

I thought the woman who interviewed the toerag was quite unprofessional. OK he was 'no comment'ing but on last week's episode the detective continued to ask questions of a 'no comment'er in a probing manner that tried to appeal to the suspect's emotions and engage him - while in contrast the woman hardly looked up from her notes and spoke in a very monotonous unemotional way I thought. Isn't the point of an interview to try and manipulate the suspect to reveal information and possibly a confession? She came across as bored and box-ticking.

Last week's episode was far better. BTW I don't think the other interviewer was a civilian - tv reviews have identified him as Detective Constable Gary Hales. I agree he was a very unlikely-looking copper. I know it's wrong to judge on appearances but I was really surprised he had the manner and confidence that he did, as he looked like he wouldn't say boo to a goose! He reminded me of nosy neighbour Mrs Kravitz from Bewitched.

Oh and off the point but both men had teeth that made me feel sick. Surely they can afford a scale and polish!

while in contrast the woman hardly looked up from her notes and spoke in a very monotonous unemotional way I thought. Isn't the point of an interview to try and manipulate the suspect to reveal information and possibly a confession? She came across as bored and box-ticking

You're basing your opinion of police interviewing on TV programmes. Most of the time it's a question of going through the motions of the questions you need to ask so that you can cover the defendant's made up defence in court.
Don't forget that lots of officers working on prisoner process units are interviewing the same people week in, week out. I suggest that you wouldn't be engaging in some attempt of "manipulating the suspect" when what you are looking at is a defendant who has been in 4 times this week for stealing £45 of raw meat from Tesco and has gone "no comment" on the last 25 times you've interviewed them

The bread and butter of police work is monotonous and boring.

Yeah I suppose so, you sound like you have more first-hand experience than me. Going through the motions is definitely what she was doing. It wasn't shoplifting meat though it was domestic violence, and I just felt she should be putting more effort into trying to get him to answer. She made it easy for him to say 'no comment' while the interviewer last week did the opposite I thought. I actually thought the 'bit of skirt' comment was an attempt to provoke the suspect into answering too.

Lots of jobs are civilian now. DH works with many civilians (lots of them retired cops or ex-customs actually). Admin heavy jobs in particular often done by civilians. I'd love to be a civilian investigator.

Here though, there's no way you'd have had a civilian in doing interview for last week's case. It being such a serious crime, you'd have had 3 police officers in there. Police are trained to different levels with regard to interviewing. Here with such a serious case you'd have a level 5 trained interviewer (there aren't many of them) and two other detectives. Different forces do things very differently it would seem.

10 years in the police, 8 as civilian and 2 as an officer. About to rejoin as an officer

Here with such a serious case you'd have a level 5 trained interviewer (there aren't many of them) and two other detectives. Different forces do things very differently it would seem.

Seems very short sighted of your force to not employ retired officers on their MCBs. One day you're a detective investigating organised crime, cognitively interviewing witnesses and leading advanced interviews with suspects. With maybe 30 years experience. What has changed the next day apart from the fact that you no longer have certain powers conferred by your warrant card ? Absolutely nothing

Riffy, there are plenty of people that come in week in, week out for DV cases. If their brief has told you that they will be going no comment and given you a prepared statement just like they did last week, the week before that and every friday night for the past 6 months there's only so many times you can motivate yourself not to "go through the motions"

A murder interview is totally, totally different

marking my place for tonights,best tv of the week now GBBO has finished

Time!

could be a tough one to watch

Marking place.

4 full time officers seems inadequate

uuugh

very calm

So matter of fact