One for Toptec......

[Bahco]

Heres something I can't seem to get my head around ..............

Watching the police interviewing suspects on TV programmes like The Bill etc and it seems to me that the Police ask you questions about your "crime" etc and how you did it from start to finish in order for them to prosecute you!

In effect you are doing their work for them and they will use what you tell them to knock you off!

Are the police banking on people being that stupid to sing like a canary so they can be prosecuted more successfully!

Don't understand..........

 

[Stivino]

No comment.

 

[kevplumb]

err i from barcalona

hows my missus BTW

 

[Softus]

Are the police banking on people being that stupid to sing like a canary so they can be prosecuted more successfully!

No.

Don't understand

It's pretty basic stuff, and part of doing the job of catching criminals.

If you ask someone to explain their involvement, there are only four possible outcomes:

1. They did it, and then tell the truth.
2. They didn't do it, and then tell the truth.
3. They did it, but deny it.
4. They didn't do it, but confess anyway.

With the information already obtained from other witnesses, it's pretty easy to spot a liar, most of the time.

Don't forget two important points:

A. Even if the police didn't ask, the suspect/accused/charged would be asked in court.

B. There's an incentive to tell the truth - courts look [relatively] favourably upon people who waste the least amount of police time and expense, who are honest after the event, and who are genuinely contrite.

 

[kevplumb]

B. There's an incentive to tell the truth - courts look [relatively] favourably upon people who waste the least amount of police time and expense, who are honest after the event, and who are genuinely contrite.

your not gonna try and tell me your that nieve

 

[gremlin16]

Just some questioning technique.

The problem is that many of the following examples allows the interviewer to ask a question and answer it the same time. (known as putting words in my mouth).

I have previously used this type of questioning as part of critical incident debrief interviews.
With two people throwing questions it helps to demoralize and confuse an accused. It a cunning but productive method for a positive outcome.
When done properly even a training scenario can make you feel guilty of a crime. Even seen adult cry and walk out of training session.
Thank f**K I left all that behind years ago.

I always believed a person was innocent until genuinely and positively proved guilty, these days your guilty until you can ,if lucky, prove your innocence,


Columbo technique Asking stupid questions that get the answers you want.

Double bind questions: Whichever way you answer, the result is the same.

Interrogation questions: Questions that lead to answers.

Leading questions: That may or may not be a good thing for you.

Open and Closed questions: yes/no or long answer.

Positive questions: Deliberately leading the other person

Responding to questions: Turning questioning to your advantage.

Rhetorical questions: Questions without answers.

Selling with questions: how to sell by asking instead of telling.

Tag questions: Some questions encourage agreement, don't they?

 

[kevplumb]

class fella you have been on the wrong side of the door

 

[Bahco]

Hi Marra

Ignoring friends does not make you clever

 

[libby lou lou]

Do you watch the bill

 

[Softus]

Do you watch the bill

No. Nor any other police-based soap nonsense.

Are you capable of stating what you disagree with?

 

[kevplumb]

Hi Marra

Ignoring friends does not make you clever

divvent ignre yow fella

and hows that blonde bird i was having a word with whilst you where asleep

 

[Bahco]

Hows that blonde bird i was having a word with whilst you where asleep

Yow bin dreaming again marra!

Come and have a mince pie with us son

 

[libby lou lou]

No comment.

Sorry, does that come under no 3?

 

[kevplumb]

na that comes under pleading the 5th

 

[Stivino]

Yep, that's your best option, say nowt.