Back in October last year I wrote a post about the use of family liaison officers, HERE, and today I thought I would shore it up with a short video from West Midlands Police which gives you more of an emotional point of view from the family liaison officer themselves and a family member who was involved with that officer. It’s only a short video, but it provides a clear outline of how the relationship works.
I hope you enjoy it.
Please do let me know in the comments of any other topics or questions you’d like covered in this series.
Rebecca Bradley is a retired UK police detective with over 15 years UK policing experience. Seven of those years were in uniform and the rest in a specialist investigative department where She handled multiple, serious and complex investigations. She is now a crime writer and offers a police procedural fact-checking service, available to all crime writers setting their work in England or Wales.
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Margot Kinberg says
This is really interesting, Rebecca. I think that this is one area people don’t always think about when they consider a police career; yet, it’s so important. Families are deeply impacted by crime. And, they may have valuable information (or be suspects). So family liaison work really is important.
Alex J. Cavanaugh says
That would be a really tough job. As she said, hard not to get emotionally involved.
Gray Bickley says
Good post Rebecca. Very helpful thanks. GB