Cognitive Interviewing involves a set of techniques employed by the police to help eyewitnesses recall information about the crime they witnessed. As part of an ongoing programme of research using procedures that emulate police practice as far as possible, we assess the potential benefit of recalling the environmental context (the “crime scene”) to the identification of composites constructed by eyewitnesses (a visual likeness of an offender’s face).
Primary goals and objectives
- Development of optimal eyewitness interviewing procedures for solving crime
- Production of facial composites in a supervised environment
- Optimisation of techniques that produce the most identifiable composite face
