I’m really excited to bring you a Writing Crime post with a difference today, in that this is a guest post. Last week saw us in an interview room with our offender and we had the information needed to start the interview. Today we are going to look at the interview from the other side […]
Writing Crime – Interviewing Your Offender
Our last post in this series looked at booking your suspect into custody. Today we are going to look at starting the interview process. A couple of years ago I was asked some questions by a writer in relation to this and these are those questions; In a murder case, where there’s a prime suspect, […]
Writing Crime – The Custody Suit and Booking In
Last time saw us making an arrest. So, what do we do with our newly handcuffed offender now? You do have them handcuffed, don’t you? Or should you? Actually, you should only officially handcuff them if one of three specific grounds are in play. You suspect they will attempt to escape. You suspect they will […]
Writing Crime – Making An Arrest
We’ve found our body, done the post-mortem and searched our premises, where we’ve now found our suspected offender. So what are we going to do? Well, we’re going to arrest him, of course. But, let us step back a moment. Before you’ve gone into that search, your SIO (Senior Investigating Officer) will have recorded an […]
Writing Crime – Seizing Your Exhibits
So, we’ve been to a crime scene – but we’re not touching anything there, your CSI’s (yes, most forces have switched to the Americanism by now) do all the work in this domain – and we’ve entered premises to execute a search. But what happens once inside those premises? What do you do if you […]
Writing Crime – Using A Family Liaison Officer
We’ve previously found a dead body, now we need to keep in pretty close contact with the family of the victim. This takes a lot of time and instead of having a stream of different officers turning up at the door asking questions as and when needed, forces now have what are called family liaison […]
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