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The Law Relating to Police Interrogation Privileges and Limitations

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The papers in this symposium will focus on that phase of Criminal Law Administration which chronologically precedes the suspect's first contact with a judicial officer: the phase of police action against or upon a suspect. This is the most important phase of criminal procedure, for here, much more so than during trial, the case is to be won-or lost. We shall assume that there has been contact by a police officer with one suspected of having committed a crime or at least with someone believed to know something about a crime believed to have been committed. A police officer may now enter the picture under any one of three different circumstances. He may (1) be armed with a warrant of arrest, or (2) have the right to make an arrest without a warrant, or (3) he may not yet have reached the stage at which he has the right and duty to effect an arrest...

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Force Science News #144: “Excessive” Shots and Falling Assailants: A fresh look at OIS Subtleties

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A new look at why officers often fire controversial “extra” shots after a threat has ended has been published by an independent shooting reconstructionist and certified Force Science analyst.

Researcher Alexander Jason reports that even under benign experimental conditions brain programming compels roughly 7 out of 10 officers to keep discharging rounds after being signaled to stop shooting. “In a real gunfight, under extraordinary stress and threat of death, an even much higher percentage would likely deliver extra shots,” Jason asserts.

On average, additional findings show, officers may “reasonably” fire 6 rounds or more into suspects who initially are standing and then begin falling and who, in fact, may already be mortally wounded. And that’s 6 rounds per officer involved in the confrontation.

“Understanding why this occurs can be critical in shooting investigations and in criminal proceedings and civil lawsuits that allege excessive force by officers for firing ‘too many’ shots,” says Dr. Bill Lewinski...

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Undercover Policing: A Psychological And Operational Guide

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Abstract

Undercover policing carries a tremendous responsibility for interdicting crime and political violence by preventive infiltration of criminal organizations to disrupt their operations and bring their perpetrators to justice. As much of this process involves the skillful manipulation of human relationships, psychology has a vital role to play in all major phases of undercover work. This article will describe the role of psychological services in team formation, selection and training of undercover officers (UCOs), preparation for undercover operations, deployment and monitoring, termination and reintegration, and managing deployment stress and post-operation psychological syndromes.

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Undercover Policing: A Psychiatrist’s Perspective

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Introduction

Police personnel working undercover assignments risk detection and violent retribution. In addition to this ever present danger, this work is physically, intellectually, and emotionally demanding. The anecdotal reputation of this aspect of policing is that the human cost, in terms of psychological and psychiatric sequelae, is high. Law enforcement agencies have found undercover operations to be an effective alternative, as well as a supplement, to traditional investigative approaches (Vasquez & Kelly, 1989). Since the 1960s, in the U.S.A. and elsewhere, undercover policing has secured a firm position within many law enforcement agencies. Despite the not infrequent use of police personnel in this role, there is scant literature concerning the psychological aspects of undercover policing. Girodo's 1985 paper remains the classic reference. There exists in the popular press a variety of accounts of undercover policing, and similarities may be found in the recollections of Allied agents working in occupied France during World War II (Buckmaster, 1955; Foot, 1984)....

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