Participants are provided an outline and practice in the process of conducting an ethical and legally sound investigation. The program includes researching the scope of the investigation, determining investigation issues, planning and conducting the investigation, analysing and maintaining information/evidence gathered, compiling a report and handling complaints and appeals and resolution of different types of disputes together with models for real world application.
OUTCOMES
- Establishing and applying enabling legislation
- Prepare, conducting and recording interviews
- Critical documentation and record keeping guidelines
- Stakeholder management and preventing investigation sabotage
- Communications with the parties ensuring privacy rights are respected
- Addressing situations where there are no witnesses
- Diversity issues that may impact perceptions and the investigation
- Investigative interviewing - getting to the truth
- Proven techniques for conducting interviews with hostile witnesses
- Uncovering vital pieces of physical and documentary evidence
- Authenticity, adequacy and sufficiency of evidence
- Analysing the data and the "Balance of probabilities” test
