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a). Describe police interview techniques. (10 marks) * Goal is to obtain complete, accurate information. * Has 4 stages : Orientation - purpose of interview stated, legal requirements fulfilled. Listening - interviewee invited to give an account of events, minimal questions from police. Questions and answers - interviewer asks specific questions based on the person's recall account. This is to reduce ambiguities, fill gaps and obtain additional information. Advice - statement is read through, alterations made if needed and interviewee informed of any further action. * Gudjonsson said interviewee may deliberately try to deceive the interviewer. This comes in two types - self deception, where the interviewee lies to themselves, and others' deception, where the interviewee lies in order to conceal or falsify information. (Eckman, 1985) * Generally, the more serious the offence, the greater the tendency is to falsify information and engage in deception. * There are facilitators and inhibitors of communications in interviews (Gorden, 1975), and...

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