raise the upper age limit of child witnesses automatically eligible for special measures from those under 17 to include those under 18

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Investigators should remember that offenders are members of communities too and can influence others about the police. Offenders may become victims and witnesses themselves. If they believe that they have been treated ethically during an investigation, they are less likely to form, and communicate a negative view of the police to others, and are more likely to cooperate with investigations in the future.In 2008 he was convicted for possession with intent to supply class A drugs and spent two years in prison. But since being released, he had moved on with his life. Where routine investigative actions have failed to gather sufficient material, investigators should explore alternative methods. Creative thinking may be required to determine the most appropriate type of action that is needed to progress an investigation, but this does not mean that the high legal standards and integrity expected of investigators should be compromised. There is a wide range of generic roles that may be involved in investigations. These can be searched via Skills for Justice. PIP level 2 and 3 investigators are likely to have their own caseload of investigations. commonly involving serious or complex crime, but may also provide advice and support to PIP level 1 investigators involved in volume crime. This evidence can be defined as evidence of the circumstances surrounding the offence, or an event from which a ‘fact in issue’ may be inferred. This form of evidence is especially relevant in situations when crimes are committed and there are no witnesses present. Common examples of situations when circumstantial evidence would be relevant are: Gangs are, for the most part, a complete red herring… fixation with the term is unhelpful at every level. A huge amount of time, effort and energy has been wasted on trying to define what a gang is when it wasn’t necessarily relevant to what we’re seeing on the streets.’

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Metropolitan Police Authority: Crimint Plus Project – contract award approval". 23 June 2005. Archived from the original on 7 November 2009. These principles, the investigation process, and an investigative mindset provide a structure to support quality investigations. Ethics It was not the first time his alleged ‘gang status’ had intruded on his fresh start. One year earlier, his family’s home had been raided by the police as part of a gang enforcement operation led by Wandsworth Borough. The police handcuffed his mother, father and younger sister (Omar was not living at home) and tried to ‘recall’ him to prison, something they could do given that he was still on license for his previous offence.The report concludes that when a police officer ‘friends’ or otherwise forms an online relationship with a potential person of interest, a covert human intelligence source authorisation – a warrant – is clearly required.