Objective order in investigative interviews

Regardless of the extra ingredients you add, a ham and cheese sandwich only needs three items to be a ham and cheese sandwich. Bruce G Pitt-Payne pulls apart the essential components of an investigative interview.

Bruce G Pitt-Payne (+1 (604) 908 0120, brucegpittpayne@gmail.com), a retired sergeant and major crime investigator with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is owner of PlayFair Investigative Consulting & Training Services (www.playfairinvestigativeconsultingandtrainingservices.ca). This article was inspired by some fireside chats with Kerry Marlow (www.fis-international.com/about-us/our-team/training-consultants/kerry-marlow) who knows how to make his way through the objectives of an investigative conversation. Special thanks to Dr Andy Griffiths for his work on productive questioning(www.ikatconsulting.com).

Regardless of the extra ingredients you add, a ham and cheese sandwich only needs three items to be a ham and cheese sandwich. Bruce G Pitt-Payne pulls apart the essential components of an investigative interview.