Police / Public Order Law

Blackstone's Crime Investigators' Handbook

Edited by Tony Cook · Mick Hill · Steve Hibbitt
Oxford University Press June 2013

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780199662937
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
June 2013
Format
Paperback , 472 pages
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

  • Provides straightforward, practical information and advice for anyone involved in investigating crime
  • Checklists, aide memoirs, and key point boxes help to simplify more complex areas and provide context
  • Offers comprehensive guidance on everything from case management and the CPS to investigating sudden and unexpected deaths
  • Covers all the practical skills required for the ICIDP and all PIP Level 2 investigations

Blackstone's Crime Investigators' Handbook provides you with straightforward, practical information and advice for anyone involved in investigating crime. Covering all the learning requirements for trainee detectives on the Initial Crime Investigators Development Programme (ICIDP), it will also be useful to detectives and uniformed officers investigating volume crime, as well those involved in the initial stages of major investigations. 

The authors cover the different types of criminal investigation, outlining the legal procedures and operational protocols relating to specific offences, but also offer more general guidance on effective case management, working with the CPS, crime report processing, and investigative strategies. Each stage of conducting and managing an investigation is explored, with specific guidance on crime scene management, evidence preservation and witness and suspect management, helping you to build and develop your capabilities. TheHandbook also outlines the role of partner agencies and includes specific chapters on forensic investigation and the investigation of sudden and unexpected deaths.

Police doctrines and practical guidance manuals are extensively cross-referenced, while checklists, aide memoirs and key point boxes help contextualise the complex and sometimes daunting procedures, methods and responsibilities.

 

Readership: Trainee detectives on the ICIDP course, all PIP Level 2 detectives engaged in volume crime. Also of interest to PIP Level 1 police officers, students of policing and criminal investigation.

Table of Contents

1: Role of a Criminal Investigator
2: Legal framework, Manuals and Doctrine
3: Investigation Management & Decision Making
4: Initial Stages of an investigation
5: Crime scene identification, preservation, searching & evidence recovery
6: Forensic investigation
7: Core investigative strategies
8: Witness management
9: Suspect management
10: Investigating sudden & unexplained deaths
11: Types of investigations
12: Pro-active investigation techniques
13: Crime report processing
14: Case management, CPS & Court procedures

About the Author

Tony Cook, SIO advisor, National Policing Improvement Agency, and former Senior Investigating Officer, Greater Manchester Police, Mick Hill, ICIDP National Training Coordinator, National Policing Improvement Agency, andSteve Hibbitt, Detective Chief Inspector and operational SIO, Humberside Police

Detective Superintendent Tony Cook is a former Senior Investigating Officer at Greater Manchester Police and currently a regional SIO advisor for the National Policing Improvement Agency. He has led and advised on major police investigations for more than 20 years and is the author of the successful Blackstone's Senior Investigating Officer's Handbook (now in its second edition), and contributor to the Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook.

Mick Hill is an experienced detective and a qualified police trainer. He is presently seconded with the NPIA as a National Training Coordinator with responsibility for all aspects of the ICIDP and is currently assisting in the development of the revised Detective Inspectors Development Programme. His role has seen him advising forces around the UK in respect of ICIDP matters.

Steve Hibbitt is a Detective Chief Inspector and operational SIO at Humberside Police. He is a major crime review officer and an ACPO approved Specialist Interview Advisor. He is the author of various ACPO position papers and has designed and delivered training for PIP Level 1 and 2 investigators and PIP Level 2 Specialist Interviewers.

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