5. What are the advantages in having specialist police units to deal with juveniles and juvenile crime? 6. What personal and psychological factors may affect the ability of a detainee who is being interviewed to make free decisions and rational judgements? 7. In what ways will the conduct of an interview differ if the interview is used for the purpose of fact-finding and information-gathering rather than purely to secure a confession? 08. What personal qualities are necessary in a police officer for him or her to be an effective and ethical interviewer? Is it possible to train people to carry out effective and ethical interviews or is it an inborn skill? 09. What are the advantages and disadvantages of making video recordings of police interviews of suspects? Specify all the purposes for which they could be used. 10. It has been shown that people who have falsely confessed to crimes have been able to give convincing accounts of their involvement because police officers conducting interviews have unwittingly conveyed sufficient information about the crime for those accounts to be constructed. How can this be avoided? Exercise Detention Role play on visits to prisons and detention centres The Process: This exercise requires participants to perform certain tasks in a situation simulating “real life”. It will be used to practise skills relating to visits to places of detention in the mission area. A written factual situation is set out below (“the problem”). Each participant will be allocated a particular role (the CIVPOL officer, the detainee, the local police official, the witness, etc.). During the exercise, no one will be allowed to leave his or her assigned role for any reason. The process will then be discussed by the entire group at the end of the role play. This technique is intended to enable the participants to practice the necessary skills, to understand the perspectives of the various actors and to recognize the importance of certain issues likely to arise in such assignments. The Problem: Under an agreement between the Government and UNSAME, and following from certain terms of the peace agreements, United Nations CIVPOL offices are to be given “reasonable access to places of detention” for the purposes of interviewing “selected detainees”, inspecting facilities and advising the local authorities. You have received information about abuses at a local police detention centre, known as “Z-21”. It has been alleged that conditions are substandard and that a certain detainee named Steven K. has been subjected to torture. The commander of Z-21, Exland Police Commander Jones, is known to be a particularly ruthless official in his treatment of detainees and generally opposed to “interference from outsiders”. You seek access to inspect the prison and interview Steven K. The Roles: CIVPOL Officer Smith (who seeks to inspect Z-21 and interview Steven K.) Commander Jones (who wants neither “outside interference” nor additional attention to Z-21) Detainee Steven K. (who has allegedly been mistreated in custody) Witness (former detainee) David W. (who claims to know of the abuse and conditions) 80