Best practice training for investigators
Last week we facilitated our second in-house and virtual intensive Certificate III in Investigative Services to a range of students in our Sunshine Coast training facility, and remotely across the country. At the Professional Investigators College of Australasia (PICA), our aim is to provide the…
TED: Ask the right questions, get the right answers.
There’s a fair bit of research around about questioning techniques and the usefulness of asking open ended questions. It doesn’t matter whether the interviewee is a complainant, witness, respondent or party to a dispute or conflict. In the case of investigative interviewing, there’s evidence…
New Evidence and the Double Jeopardy
A few years ago, Queensland Police re-charged a man with murder, having been acquitted of the same murder in 1987. It’s a huge test of the 2014 laws bought in by the (then) Newman government. It’s not all plain sailing; chapter 68 (exceptions to double…