UN Side event on Investigative Interviewing and Associated Safeguards
This side event during UNTOC-COP 10 will be on sharing good practices and advancing the development of international guidelines for interviews of suspects, victims and witnesses for the purposes of criminal investigations, including organized crime.
UNTOC-COP 10 Side event on Non-Coercive Investigative Interviewing and Associated Safeguards: Developing Guidelines & Advancing Good Practices in Support of criminal investigations of organized crime cases.
This online event is open to all, but registration is required.
Discussions will explore the benefits proffered in different jurisdictions by the use of non-coercive, information-gathering interviewing models that are human rights-compliant and evidence-based.
UNTOC-COP 10
The side event is part of the tenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC-COP 10), and is co-sponsored by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Vienna.
Preliminary agenda
Welcoming remarks |
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10:00-10:10 |
Ms. Candice Welsch, Deputy Director, Division for Operations, UNODC |
Panel discussion |
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10:10-10:40 |
Moderated by Barbara Bernath, APT Secretary General Investigative interviewing in the context of transnational organized crime and the broader issue of police reform, Dr. Ivar Fahsing, Detective Chief Superintendent/NCHR Expert consultant Prosecutorial point of view on the advantage of non-coercive investigative interviewing and Thai experiences, Mrs. Santanee Ditsayabut, Provincial Chief Public Prosecutor/University lecturer Developing international guidelines on interviewing: Need for such guidelines and steps ahead. African experience on police reform and the role of civil society in oversight Mr. Sean Tait, Director, APCOF |
| 10:40-10:50 |
Questions / Comments from the floor |
More information and full programme for UNTOC-COP 10, 12-16 October 2020.