BEHIND THE TAPE
Expert advice to get the details right in your crime novel. from serving police
officer Lisa Cutts
Q Could you let me have a rough outline of police interviewing? My plot needs e character to be formally interviewed by police officer! but I don’t yet want him to bo jrrosted. k this possible?
A Once Someone is declared Suspect, thay must be treated äs such: an should soon follw, then interview at die police station. What may fie your scenario is someone who I*» come to the police’s attention lor something •which need) to be checked. yet not enough to justify tha arrest, It could be. lor exampk-, dm your dunster lias given infortiutio that conflict* with other witness’s accounts. In faim cw. to your character to give him the benefit of the doubt, he might be given the opportunity to be interviewed under caution at a police nation. He wont be arrested at