Initially, the suspect had been chatty with her, even friendly. “But then I switched the tape on, and started asking questions, and he just said, ‘No comment’.” It is a requirement of detectives, when interrogating someone, to put all questions to them irrespective of whether the suspect is prepared to answer. “I asked the next question – ‘No comment.’ And then the next – ‘No comment.’ And so on. It was just very, very awkward,” she says. Practical performance experience in a no-comment or silent interview scenario, as both an interviewer and an interviewee. Calvo MG and Carreiras M. (1993). 'Selective influence of test anxiety on reading processes'. British Journal of Psychology, 84(3), pp 375–388. Since then, media companies have been advised to deploy significant resources into moderating comments or refrain from posting articles that were likely to attract potentially defamatory comments in response. Kuhlmann S, Piel M and Wolf OT. (2005). 'Impaired memory retrieval after psychosocial stress in healthy young men'. Journal of Neuroscience, 25(11), pp 2977–2982.

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Attentional control theory suggests that anxiety disrupts the operation of working memory, reducing cognitive performance during complex tasks (Calvo and Carreiras, 1993). 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. The broadcaster said it had to “substantially increase its investment in social media moderation, in particular for news and current affairs content”. Facebook will allow every user including celebrities, politicians, brands and news outlets to determine who can and can’t comment on their posts. These self-efficacy enhancing strategies can be applied to the interviewer through the following three simple adaptations to the interview training agenda. I was gripped by this unflinching close-up account of life as a new Met detective. As a female outsider, McDonald offers a rare insight into the current state of the UK's biggest and most controversial police force - a world usually painfully resistant to scrutiny. No Comment is essential reading for anyone interested in the questions being asked of the Met today, and its passionate call for change could hardly be more timely

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The more he got away with it, the bolder he became. The harassment continued. His wife feared for her life. “She lived in terror. It was awful. And you just feel incredibly helpless.” 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. I think it would be a valuable read for anyone interested in joining the police force, especially those considering the Direct Entry Scheme. Shepherd E, ed. (1993). 'Aspects of police interviewing'. British Psychological Society: Leicester. The moment she qualified, the regularity of her previous working life evaporated. “It’s all shiftwork, so you no longer have a Monday to Friday, and you don’t have weekends off. Instead, you have rest days. But if you’re working a particular case, you just see it through to completion. The work-life balance,” she notes, “wasn’t great.” Probably the most important book on the state of British policing you'll ever read' Graham Bartlett

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Through my research, I first explored the experiences of pressure, stress and anxiety by interviewers in silent or no-comment suspect interviews. I then sought to establish whether there was any correlation between the pressure experienced and other identified influencers: age, gender, role, prior interviewing experience, length of service and self-efficacy (confidence in role, confidence as an interviewer).

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My literature review demonstrated that factors such as silence, anxiety, stress and low self-efficacy can cause even the most skilled individuals to lose their ability to perform basic functions, including their ability to remember, adapt or even speak. The study If the interviewers leave the course feeling confident in their abilities, with a clear model in mind of what they seek to achieve, mastery will be far more achievable. Bandura A. (1986). 'Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive view'. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. 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. The Crown Prosecution Service isn’t really fit for purpose; they’re failing to keep people safe time and again. If the CPS doesn’t deal with it properly, then there’s only so much the police can do.” I’ve always been fascinated by the fine-grain interactions, verbal and otherwise, that take place between suspects and investigators – and even solicitors – during suspect interviews. I was interested in why some investigators seemed to relish the opportunity to interview suspects and fought to lead on high-stakes serious crime interviews, while others – despite their length of service and experience – appeared to do whatever they could to avoid the interview room.

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I wrote what I saw,” McDonald says, “and, yes, it reveals an uncomfortable truth, but then the police are our public servants at the end of the day, and so we should know what goes on, shouldn’t we?” whether an interviewer experiences pressure when a suspect answers ‘no comment’ or remains silent in interview 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. I hadn’t spared a thought for what it might do to me.” 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.The first time Detective Constable Jess McDonald interviewed a suspect who declined to answer questions, she was a little thrown. “I’d seen Line of Duty, of course,” she says, “and so I knew that ‘no comment’ could happen, but when it happened to me… oof!” She laughs, sighs, and blows out her cheeks. “It was awful!” And so when she saw an advert for the Met’s new detective scheme, she was intrigued, and swiftly enrolled. It proved a steep learning curve.