ABSTRACT
Gaining information from suspects of crime as to what happened is often regarded as one of the key tasks undertaken by the policing agencies in resolving criminal investigations. Yet in Ireland, no particular guidance was given to gardaí until very recently. This guidance emulates much of the framework that has been used to train police officers in other countries such as England and Wales, Norway, and Australia. The framework concerns investigative interviewing where the goal is to gain detailed and reliable information. Since the introduction has been only recent in Ireland, aside from a few small-scale studies conducted in this country, much of the research examining the practice of investigators trained in the investigative interviewing method has been conducted elsewhere, notably in England and Wales. This chapter covers much of this research that has tended to find that interviewing officers are now more ethical. Nevertheless, as the chapter discusses, there remain challenges ahead for gardaí in Ireland in fully implementing the investigative interviewing ethos.
