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

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Similarly, a study conducted by Schwabe and others (2007) revealed that low levels of stress can simplify learning patterns at the expense of cognitive flexibility, making it harder to apply knowledge to new situations.

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He said Facebook “reduces the distribution” of content found to be sensational, misleading” or to be gratuitously soliciting engagement. This was highly relevant to my study, as police interviews are complex tasks that require simultaneous cognitive processes, placing a high demand for cognitive resources on the interviewer. 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.The first time Detective Constable Jess McDonald interviewed a suspect who declined to answer questions, she was a little thrown. Jess McDonald was a true crime junkie and Line of Duty sofa sleuth with a strong sense of injustice. Jess McDonald was one of 4,500 applicants, and underwent a rigorous vetting process to become accepted into the programme. Written with honesty and self reflection, in a personable tone, No Comment offers interesting insight into the experience of working as a detective attached to CSU in London, albeit under unusual circumstances. My study postulated that the interview room can create such an environment, where the interviewer may experience situational stress.

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A greater understanding of the interviewer’s subjective experience of the interview environment was required. Written with candour and balance, Jess McDonald lifts the lid on why cultural change is nigh on impossible in the Metropolitan Police and how the justice system conspires against the most vulnerable. I do want to point out that there are some really good people in the force doing an incredible job in very tough circumstances,” she says, “but, yes, there are some really bad apples, too. Affording trainee interviewers the opportunity to develop vicarious experience by reviewing footage of 'real life' no-comment or silent interviews.People complain to the police all the time that they’re not doing enough [to secure a conviction], but what they have to understand is that our work was often frustrated by the next step in the criminal justice system. At one point in the book, she recounts living in shared police accommodation, and how one male officer filmed a female counterpart in the shower. Shepherd (1993) refers to the silence of an interviewee as 'conversation-blocking behaviour, a form of resistance most dreaded by officers in interviews with suspected offenders'. 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. As a ‘Direct Entry’ Jess faces some unique challenges, including disapproval from colleagues who don’t support the scheme, and while for months she remains motivated and determined to succeed, the excessive workload, the punishing shifts, and the erosion of her ideals wears her down.

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Media companies had sought this change from Facebook as part of the Australian government’s news media bargaining code legislation, which passed the parliament last month. The broadcaster said it had to “substantially increase its investment in social media moderation, in particular for news and current affairs content”. SBS told the parliament news media businesses “are subject to significant legal risk regarding user-generated content, including comments on social media posts, which means the ability to manage these features is increasingly important. Bandura proposed that self-efficacy can be enhanced through vicarious experience – in other words, by watching others carry out the model behaviour.Overcoming the initial nerves in her first interrogation, DC McDonald endeavoured to play the part with conviction.

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The police have a pretty terrible reputation these days – sexism, violence, racism – and McDonald would go on to have first-hand experience. Initially, I took a qualitative approach to establish the structure and wording of the survey statements, by conducting focus group discussions with Tier 3 interviewers. The negative experience of those reluctant investigators seemed to be exacerbated when suspects remained silent or made no comment. scrub all you want that mental picture isn’t going anywhere] You feel all the pride and joy as well as the fear and trepidation that come with putting your child out into the world. 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.The Crown Prosecution Service isn’t really fit for purpose; they’re failing to keep people safe time and again.