No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective

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The first time Detective Constable Jess McDonald interviewed a suspect who declined to answer questions, she was a little thrown. Jess was one of a hundred of the first rookies to go through an intense twenty-week training course, bypass time in uniform and fly solo as a detective investigating serious crime.

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As a female outsider, McDonald offers a rare insight into the current state of the UK's biggest and most controversial police force - a world usually painfully resistant to scrutiny. When pressure levels were compared with the aforementioned independent variables, there was a weak correlation between pressure experienced and the age and length of service of the interviewer. The interviewee may choose to manipulate, control and intimidate an ill-prepared interviewer without uttering a single word.Facebook will effectively allow users to turn off comments, with options providing more control over what is posted on their profiles, but the impact will be felt most by media businesses, which have struggled to moderate comments on their posts. I then sought to establish whether there was any correlation between the pressure experienced and other identified influencers: age, gender, role, prior interviewing experience, length of service and self-efficacy (confidence in role, confidence as an interviewer). Quite the contrary, it is more readily available to the interviewee, who has no obligation in law to utter a sound. I’ve always been fascinated by the fine-grain interactions, verbal and otherwise, that take place between suspects and investigators – and even solicitors – during suspect interviews. Attentional control theory suggests that anxiety disrupts the operation of working memory, reducing cognitive performance during complex tasks (Calvo and Carreiras, 1993).

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The purpose of these discussions was to establish rich descriptive language that most appropriately described the feelings experienced by interviewers during a no-comment or silent interview. He’d go to court and say things like, ‘Oh, but I’m going to miss my sister’s wedding,’ and the judge would let him go. Jess McDonald was a true crime junkie and Line of Duty sofa sleuth with a strong sense of injustice. Under a year later, thanks to a controversial new initiative, she was a detective in the London Metropolitan Police Service.They can direct the focus of an enquiry, elicit admissions of guilt or provide exonerating alibis to the innocent. It was naive but, before joining the police, I had only ever thought about what I would do and achieve, what I had to give.

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Almost 11 per cent of all crimes reported to the police concern domestic abuse but, McDonald says, these are often the hardest to get a conviction for. My study postulated that the interview room can create such an environment, where the interviewer may experience situational stress. Details of Jess’s personal life are interspersed among the narrative, and I understood why these intimate elements were included though I found them a bit uncomfortable at times. I wrote what I saw,” McDonald says, “and, yes, it reveals an uncomfortable truth, but then the police are our public servants at the end of the day, and so we should know what goes on, shouldn’t we? This result supports the theory that anxiety consumes cognitive resources within the limited memory system (Derakshan and Eysenck, 2009).Mastery of the task being measured is achieved most powerfully through a direct experience of mastery.