On the 16th & 17th January 2018, Barnsley and Barnsley delivered a successful 2 day Investigators course to staff from Aberdeenshire Council. The attendees were from Environmental Health & Trading Standards and the course was held at their Woodhill House HQ in Aberdeen.
The course consisted of:
Day 1: Interviewing Witnesses & Suspects
- The PRICE model of interviewing:
- Planning & Preparation
- Rapport Building
- Information Gathering
- Clarify, confirm, challenge & close
- Evaluate
- Relevant cases and decisions
- European Convention on Human Rights
- The Cadder Decision
- Parveen Akram v PF Glasgow
- Anstruther Smith v PF Forfar
- The common law caution
- Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016
Day 2: Evidence & Court Procedures
- What is evidence?
- Identifying relevant evidence
- How to recover evidence
- Securing and packaging evidence
- Using production labels and bags
- Schedule 8 certificates
- Production management
- Giving evidence in court
- Preparing to give evidence
- Key roles in the court
- The trial processes
- Use of notebooks and productions in Court