Blackstone's Senior Investigating Officers' Handbook

Informationen zum Autor Former Detective Superintendent Tony Cook was a Senior Investigating Officer with Greater Manchester Police and is now a PIP Level III & IV accredited Regional SIO Advisor working for the National Crime Agency. His role involves advising SIOs and enquiry teams on best practice! useful techniques and procedures and is engaged in supporting numerous UK high profile serious and complex crime cases. He delivers training inputs to SIODP! DIDP and IMSC courses and isan active member of the International Homicide Investigators Association (IHIA). He has written published articles relating to major crime investigation! is the co-author of Blackstone's Crime Investigators' Handbook and an administrator for the Major Crime Investigation community on PoLKA.Andy Tattersall! formerly Detective Superintendent in the Greater Manchester Police on the Force Major Incident Team! retired in 2007 after 33 years' service and became the first ever Support Staff SIO in charge of a new Homicide Support Unit. A career detective with over 29 years in CID at all ranks! Andy is recognised locally and nationally as one of the most experienced investigators in the UK! holding the position of SIO for eleven years. He has led over 300 murder investigations! includinggangland shootings! child homicides! hospital deaths! no-body murders and the prosecution of terrorist Kamal Bourgass for the murder of Special Branch Detective Stephen Oake in 2003.Andy received the Homicide Working Group National Award for his Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Homicide inNovember 2006. Klappentext The only portable step-by-step guide to the processes and actions involved in the role of a Senior Investigating Officer (SIO)! offering practical advice! cases and checklists for each stage of the investigation! and tackling key areas such as media liaison and sudden and unexplained child deaths. Zusammenfassung Blackstone's Senior Investigating Officers' Handbook is designed specifically to meet the quick-reference needs of any officer conducting a serious investigation. The only portable step-by-step guide to the processes and actions involved in the role of a Senior Investigating Officer (SIO)! it explains all the relevant procedures and instructions integral to the position in a clear and accessible style. Now in its third edition! this Handbook takes you through all the stages inherent to an SIO's role: from management and leadership! decision making! writing policy books to the initial response and crime scene management! conducting searches! applying investigative strategies! managing victims! suspects and witnesses! family liaison and conducting death investigations and sudden infant deaths.Whether you conduct! review or take a professional interest in major and serious crime investigations! this title will be an invaluable resource. Commonly referred to as the 'must have' reference book! it is a highly practical tool for any SIO or prospective SIO. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Role of the SIO ; 2. Leadership and management ; 3. Decision making and management ; 4. Policy files and decision logs ; 5. Initial response ; 6. Management of crime scenes and searches ; 7. Investigation management ; 8. TIE management ; 9. Communications management ; 10. Core investigative strategies ; 11. Victims! family and community management ; 12. Witness management ; 13. Suspect management ; 14. Managing death investigations ; 15. Investigating sudden and unexplained child deaths ; SIO Aide-Memoire Quick Checklist ; Action Management System ; Missing Person Searches ; Communications Data Matrix ; 5x5x5 Intelligence Matrix ; All Body Diagrams ; Thoracic and Abdominal Organs ; Skeleton Diagram ...

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Tony Cook, Regional SIO advisor, Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Andy Tattersall, Support Staff SIO, Homicide Support Unit, Greater Manchester Police Detective Superintendent Tony Cook is a former Senior Investigating Officer at Greater Manchester Police and currently a regional SIO advisor for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). He has led and advised on major police investigations for more than 20 years and is the co-author of the Blackstone's Crime Investigators' Handbook and a contributor to the Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook: Practice and Procedure (now in its second edition). Andy Tattersall, formerly Detective Superintendent in the Greater Manchester Police on the Force Major Incident Team, retired in 2007 after 33 years service and became the first ever Support Staff SIO in charge of a new Homicide Support Unit. A career detective with over 29 years in CID at all ranks, Andy is recognised locally and nationally as one of the most experienced investigators in the UK, holding the position of SIO for eleven years. He has led over 200 murder investigations, including gangland shootings, child homicides, hospital deaths, no-body murders and the prosecution of terrorist Kamal Bourgass for the murder of Special Branch Detective Stephen Oake in 2003.Andy received the Homicide Working Group National Award for his Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Homicide in November 2006.

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The only portable step-by-step guide to the processes and actions involved in the role of a Senior Investigating Officer (SIO), offering practical advice, cases and checklists for each stage of the investigation, and tackling key areas such as media liaison and sudden and unexplained child deaths.

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1. Role of the SIO ; 2. Leadership and management ; 3. Decision making and management ; 4. Policy files and decision logs ; 5. Initial response ; 6. Management of crime scenes and searches ; 7. Investigation management ; 8. TIE management ; 9. Communications management ; 10. Core investigative strategies ; 11. Victims, family and community management ; 12. Witness management ; 13. Suspect management ; 14. Managing death investigations ; 15. Investigating sudden and unexplained child deaths ; SIO Aide-Memoire Quick Checklist ; Action Management System ; Missing Person Searches ; Communications Data Matrix ; 5x5x5 Intelligence Matrix ; All Body Diagrams ; Thoracic and Abdominal Organs ; Skeleton Diagram