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Investigative interviews: The new Principles on Effective Interviewing

20th May 2021

Dr Ray Bull, Professor of Criminal Investigation, University of Derby

ANALYSIS: Following on from a call in 2016 by UN Special Rapporteur Juan E. Mendez for a ‘universal protocol’ on standards for non-coercive interviewing methods, new Principles for Effective Interviewing have now been published; investigative interviewing specialist Professor Ray Bull, a member of the committee which drew up the new principles, explains the reasoning behind them, the standards they set, and the likely impact on good practice in policing.

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Dr Ray Bull is Professor of Criminal Investigation at the University of Derby, and Emeritus Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Leicester. His main topic of expertise is investigative interviewing, on which he has published many journal articles, book chapters and books, including: Roar or “PEACE”: Is it a “tall story”? in International handbook of legal and investigative psychology; and Investigative interviewing: From England to Norway and beyond, in Interrogation and torture. He has written ‘Expert reports’ in over 150 cases and has often testified in courts. He regularly conducts workshops and training on investigative interviewing around the world, and in 2014 he became (for three years) President of the European Association of Psychology and Law. In 2010 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society “for the contribution made to the discipline of psychology” (this honour is restricted to 40 living psychologists). In 2018 he accepted the invitation to be a member of the small ‘Steering Committee’ writing the extensive guidance document on investigative interviewing recommended to the United Nations by its ‘Special Rapporteur’, Professor Juan Mendez.