•What will be your priorities to help detectives in their interrogation techniques in this report to the chief of police?

THESE 2 POST REQUIRE RESPONSES. A MINIMUM OF 3 SENTENCES EACH.

1st post

In  your opinion, if you knew Castillo had information to a bigger source of crime, how would you try to obtain information from him before his attorney arrived?

 

My opinion would be to have a general conversation with him that will hopefully lead to Castillo releasing information without being under any pressure.   Castillo is going to already know that me as the officer is going to try and get information from him, so of course in the beginning his guards are going to be up and he is more than likelynot going to say much at all.  It is my responsibility to make Castillo feel comfortable and at ease.   It may be a little tough for me in the beginning to get Castillo to budge because he already know what he's in for and if he opens his mouth about anything that he may be giving away information that I need to hear.  If Castillo is firm about not speaking until his attorney arrives then I may just be out of luck, but I will most definitely give it a shot.

 

Do you think the best way to obtain information from Castillo is through interrogation or interview? Why?

 

I will say the best way to obtain information is through an interview.  Why I chose interview, is because he already know what he has been brought in for and he is more than likely prepared to be interrogated.  Interviewing Castillo will be best because I'm trying to get as much information out of him that I can without upsetting him or making matters worst.  I think if I  was able to sit down with Castillo  and have a conversation while asking the appropriate questions I think I may succeed.  I don't want him to feel uncomfortable during this process.  If he isn't under pressure or feeling stressed he may  be willing to release such information.  If a plea bargain is  in effect I am sure it will help me. 

2nd post

After Costello’s was arrest it was found that he had information on a much bigger case. This case is very important to the department and its importance in solving it.  However, the detectives that are investigating the case need to get the information before his attorney arrives. Knowing that he is a career criminal, detectives have to work very carefully in getting this information from him and also before his attorney arrives. A plan has been devised in trying to make Mr. Costello as comfortable as possible. Hoping this will catch him off guard when the detectives go into interview him maybe and a little easier to extract this information from Mr. Costello. By the detectives using the "persuasive interview technique" which utilizes  behavioral sciences knowledge.  This interviewing method was developed in the 1960s that can be described as passive interviewing the aim is to persuade the suspect in making a self-incriminating statement. The case with Mr. Costello would be used to get helpful information to the detectives before his attorney arrives. The first step would be to build a rapport with Mr. Costello this would give the detectives ability to appeal to Mr. Costello’s advantages of giving this information to them. Then appealing to his sense of moral values which could be (for instance Hispanic would be appealed to as to “what would your mother what you do” usually the Hispanic population are more family oriented for the male population for instance instance will be susceptible to this type of appeal" like "what would your mothers think/feel". So after interviewing Mr. Costello for a while you would be able to find out what he appeals to more. Also you can use such things as “this will look better for you when you go to court” by telling Mr. Costello that “look if you help us out I’ll do everything I can when you go to court” (Roberts, Carl Dr. , 2012). By using this interview process it could be that the information needed could be extracted from Mr. Costello.

 

 

Roberts, Carl Dr. (2012) Police interviewing of criminal suspects, Internet Journal of criminology:

                  Retrieved from http://www.internetjournalofcriminology.com/Roberts_Police_Interview

               _Criminal_Suspects_IJC_Dec_2012.pdf