Police interviews at the touch of a button
Teesside has struck a deal to gain access to a vast range of police suspect and witness interviews which will be of huge benefit to both students and lecturers.
The University has teamed up with Indico Systems, a world leader in secure digital recording solutions, to adopt its digital recording technology.
Students and lecturers in the School of Social Sciences & Law will be able to use the technology to access, view and bookmark a wide range of suspect and witness interviews.
It will allow students to access the interviews via a secure digital network, so that they can be viewed from anywhere and at any time. Students and lecturers can also mark the recordings with digital bookmarks, making it easier to find specific parts of an interview or to search for a particular word or phrase.
Hundreds of police officers are trained at Teesside every year and the University also played a major part in the formation of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iIIRG), which brings together academics and practitioners who wish to study and carry out research in investigative interviewing of suspects, victims and witnesses of crime.
Revolutionising the way we train police and students Gavin Oxburgh, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and Chairman of the iIIRG, said: ‘From a training perspective, the ability to clearly bookmark and retrieve good and bad examples of interviewing from thousands of hours of interviews will revolutionise the way in which we train police and our students.’
'I am also very excited by the idea that I could be on the other side of the world running an iIIRG workshop, and yet easily locate and pull up examples if a specific type of interview is being discussed or requested.’
Simon Jones, Indico Systems' UK Sales and Marketing Director, added: ‘We are pleased to strengthen our relationship with Teesside University in order to help them with their research work and to improve the standard of interview training.
‘Students graduating from Teesside will be well-versed in using this technology, and will quickly be able to apply what they have learned to real life police investigations.