"Surveillance and sensing is the ability to lawfully monitor and collect data from people, activity, movements, behaviours, objects and data overtly and covertly.
We wish to develop practices that support vulnerable witnesses, victims, and suspects at interview. We seek best practices in conducting:
1. Pre-interview assessments, to identify vulnerability or intimidation (within the meaning of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act, 1999), to determine which ‘special measures’ are appropriate, and to establish how best to communicate;
2. Voluntary Attender Interviews with suspects using secure digital recording devices, including understanding the impact this approach has on interview quality, the outcome of the investigation, and jury decision making;
3. Investigative interviews with vulnerable suspects, establishing the extent current national police interview models are fit for purpose when conducting interviews with vulnerable suspects, such as those who have Autism Spectrum Disorder, Personality Disorder or mental health conditions; and,
4. A suspect centric approach in RASSO (Rape and Serious Sexual Offences) /VAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls) investigations to determine how to structure suspect interviews if a suspect’s previous behaviour has an impact on ‘consent’ (s74-76 SOA 2003)."
"We welcome your engagement with our ARIs in the following ways:
• If you have evidence that completely or partly supports or answers one of our ARIs, we invite you to share that with us. For any ongoing research relevant to policing and crime reduction, we encourage you to register your research on the College of Policing’s research projects map, which has been designed to promote collaboration and support requests for participants.
• If you are, or plan to be, carrying out research that relates to one of our ARIs, we’d like to hear about it. While we cannot respond to speculative approaches for research funding, we will where possible act to support your ambitions, including finding you policing partners where possible.
• If you are submitting a funding or grant application that aligns with one of our ARIs, we hope that referencing policing’s ARIs will help to strengthen your case for the possible public impact of the research.
• We will use the ARI document to structure our academic engagement, prioritise events and build new connections with external partners. We will be using our ARIs in our engagement with UKRI, and we will publish any opportunities for funding via our website https://science.police.uk/
Please send any correspondence and questions to csa@npcc.police.uk, including ‘ARI’ in the subject heading."
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
This application develops research collaboration between researchers and police officers, both in Japan and the UK, to identify, for the first time, the framework for a best practice model for the interviewing of vulnera...
Funded by: FIC
Lead research organisation: De Montfort University
Addresses the extent current national police interview models are fit for purpose when conducting interviews with vulnerable suspects.
Evidence collected from eyewitnesses is crucial for the success of a criminal investigation. Information from witnesses governs the initial direction of an investigation (providing lines of enquiry and identifying possib...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: City, University of London
Focuses on access to justice for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, partially relevant to vulnerable suspects.
Eyewitness testimony is central to the Criminal Justice System (CJS), and this often includes the testimony of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). A number of risk factors suggest that people with ASD are at...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Royal Holloway University of London
Investigates eyewitness testimony by adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder, partially relevant to vulnerable suspects.