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John Potts Dr. Becky Milne University of Portsmouth

John Potts Dr. Becky Milne University of Portsmouth. A PILOT STUDY INTO THE USE OF ENHANCED COGNITIVE INTERVIEW TECHNIQUE TO DEBRIEF POLICE INFORMANTS & AGENTS. Regulation Of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. Introduced legislation on Conduct and Use of informants.

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John Potts Dr. Becky Milne University of Portsmouth

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  1. John PottsDr. Becky MilneUniversity of Portsmouth A PILOT STUDY INTO THE USE OF ENHANCED COGNITIVE INTERVIEW TECHNIQUETO DEBRIEF POLICE INFORMANTS & AGENTS

  2. Regulation Of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 • Introduced legislation on Conduct and Use of informants. • Introduced a chain of command for the protection of police and the informant and defined the following: • CHIS.(Covert Human Intelligence Source) • Handler. • Controller. • Authorising Officer.

  3. How is the CHIS currently debriefed? • Not seen as a witness. • Standard Interview. (Fisher et.al1987) • Why not use ECI?

  4. Aims and Objective of the Study. • What is the standard interview and how productive is it in the area of informants? • Does the ECI get better information compared to a SI in an informant scenario?

  5. Method • Interviewees / informants: military students. • Event: 4 minute video. • Interviewers: experienced informant handlers. • Within subject design.

  6. Scoring and Coding • Correct • Incorrect • Confabulation. • Person. • Action • Surroundings • Object

  7. Results 1

  8. Results 2 ECI SI

  9. Conclusions 1 • ECI produces more correct information than the SI in: • Persons • Actions • Surroundings

  10. Conclusions 2 • ECI > incorrect details in: • Person

  11. Conclusions 3 • ECI > Confabulations in: • Person • Actions

  12. John PottsMetropolitan Police, University of PortsmouthE-Mail john.potts@metpolice.pnn.co.uk Dr. Becky Milne University of Portsmouth

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