... questioning technique but found that this does not always give them the quality and rich information required to complete an investigation or police report. The deficiencies in previous police investigation techniques were obvious including generalisations and trivialisations of rich accounts with important details ignored. RMH training services limited teach Fraud investigators how to interview the accused in several styles so that information is obtained. During the 1980's researchers investigated the value and use of interviews and the product of this stream of work was the new Cognitive Interview (CI), which was based on memory principles and theories behind trace retrieval and was designed to steer the interviewee into giving more accurate and vivid biographical accounts. It stresses that it is the style of the interviewer influences the amount of information that is obtained by subjects. The CI's success is improved when the interviewer is trained in the technique. A CI also ...

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