Shouldn’t we be paying attention to this Police interrogation trainwreck?

It keeps popping up in the news, and I really really really think we need to be paying attention to it…

‘Unfair’ Police interview process forced false confession, says judge

A controversial police interrogation method that was implicated in a false confession is under fire from human rights lawyers, criminologists and psychologists.

Earlier this month, Crown Law and police lost their legal battle to keep secret the method used in the Lois Tolley murder case, which collapsed late last year.

The case unravelled against Mr X (one of three men charged over the crime), after his so-called “confession” turned out to be a fabrication, obtained by dubious means.

Those dubious means were finally revealed after the news organisation Stuff took legal action to get suppressions lifted on a High Court judgment.

…you will recall that these two Detectives set a prisoner up in prison and Trick Bullied him into a confession using McDonalds as bait!

This Trick Bullying a confession is euphemistically called the Complex Investigation Phased Engagement Model (CIPEM) and it was defended at the time by its architect, Detective Superintendent Tom Fitzgerald…

The architect of a controversial police interviewing method has defended its use, saying it’s not to blame for the false confession extracted from a murder suspect.

It comes after a High Court judge said that detectives trained in the Complex Investigation Phased Engagement Model (CIPEM) misled the man, and “manipulated” him to make a confession that was “very flawed” and “not credible”.

In an interview with Stuff last week, Detective Superintendent Tom Fitzgerald, who is in charge of the police’s national crime group, and who created CIPEM, insisted any issues were the result of mistakes by the detectives involved, not a flawed model.

“You can’t blame the model for what happens in one interview.”

…so according to the architect of this interrogation model, it’s not the interrogation models fault for a questionable confession being thrown out, it’s the way poorly trained detectives use it?

Yet it then turns out, that the architect of this interrogation model, the one he’s claiming isn’t flawed because but was poorly trained detectives who screwed up, was actually intimately involved in the interrogation…

Top cop intimately involved in interviews that led to false murder confession

Stuff can now reveal that Fitzgerald helped plan the suspect’s interviews and watched them unfold from an adjacent room – offering advice and direction to the two detectives as required.“He needs to take responsibility for what happened,” a police source said. “If something goes wrong, it needs to come back to the person at the top. Claiming it was operator error is simply devolving responsibility for something that he implemented.”

…we wonder how Alan Hall was bullied into a false confession? These types of tactics.

It looks like the Police simply round up a group of possible suspects and bully one of them into a confession.

How is this possible and how many innocent people are actually in our prisons if the cops are playing games of entrapment?

 

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