This is a short post today. It’s an important subject but there’s not a lot to say on the matter. It’s on subjects like this that you think people know what happens, but I received the question as part of my consulting service, about how the formal identification of a deceased person was carried out […]
My Writing Life ~ Working With Pain
Last week was the first week of this new series, My Writing Life, and I talked about the fact that I had started NaNoWriMo as well as having another project on which I was editing. Well, I ended the week on 11,009 words which were on track as far as NaNoWriMo was concerned. It had […]
Writing Crime – Pathologist or Coroner?
As you may know, I run a consulting service where you can send me policing questions or a manuscript to read through and one of the most common misconceptions I see popping up is the one between pathologist and coroner. It is as though the two titles are interchangeable or completely mistaken. That the coroner […]
Writing Crime – The Offence of Murder
We have looked at a lot policing policies, rules and procedures, but what we have not looked at are the actual offences for which you can and will be locking your bad guys up for in your crime fiction. The offences that you need to know to be able to have grounds for arrest and […]
Writing Crime – Victim Personal Statements
Back in October last year we covered witness statements. But, what we didn’t cover was victim personal statements (VPS). A VPS is usually added at the end of a witness statement or it can be a statement all of its own created at a later date, closer to the court date or sentencing if the […]
Writing Crime – A Family Liaison Officer Relationship (Video)
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 […]