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Evidence Gathering and Interviewing Skills

Course Overview

This course is designed to outline the requirement for training for a number of qualified key practitioners within government departments in Interviewing Skills. Not only will this course focus on their highly specialised areas of work but will cover specific interviewing skills that will be supported by the awareness of the required laws of evidence and current legislation.

Who should attend?

This course is designed at two levels. It is suitable for internal and external auditors, forensic accountants, financial investigators, members of the police service and other law enforcement agencies and those involved in compliance, due diligence and crime prevention activities.

Benefits of Attending

• Understand laws of Evidence & Legislation and Sources of Law
• Demonstrate interviewing techniques in order to secure relevant evidence
• Apply cognitive interviewing techniques as developed in America by Edward Geiselman and Ronald Fisher in 1985
• Practice Listening Skills, Stages 1–4
• Practice non verbal communication - theory and practice
• Demonstrate how IT assisted techniques can be used to access and analyse date
• Allocate responsibilities to strategic members of staff for the overall management of Interviewing
• Understand how to respond to events and the options open for criminal, civil recovery etc and the requirement of evidence management in support of a criminal case
• Tape recording of interview aligned with evidence continuity

Programme Outline

• Legal Elements of Interviewing
• Investigative Interviewing
• Questioning Techniques
• Practical Exercises
• Interviewing Witnesses
• Listening Skills
• Suspect Interviews
• Evidence Gathering
• Disclosure
• Management of Information
• Statement Taking

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