Evidence Gathering and Interviewing Skills

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. Firstly covering general awareness issues to interviewing and its associated skills required to undertake this function. Secondly a more in depth understanding of the subject for the working practitioner. 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. Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

Understand laws of Evidence & Legislation and Sources of Law

Demonstrate interviewing techniques in order to secure relevant evidence

Gather and disclose evidence

Understand Human Rights issues

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

Tape record an interview

Provide insight into forensic accounting and investigative techniques to seek out and quantify evidence

Take statements

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