3 Evaluating DI Bullet’s suspect interview

Did reading about interrogative suggestibility and false confessions make you think differently about the interview conducted by DI Bullet?

As mentioned earlier, DI Bullet did not use any of the more coercive techniques we often see in crime fiction (such as those involving physical aggression).

However, his interview did involve quite a few elements that are not part of standard suspect interviewing practice and that would be considered very poor practice in the UK. Moreover, some of these techniques involve the same type of coercion that the Reid technique has been criticised for.