No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective

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If the interviewers leave the course feeling confident in their abilities, with a clear model in mind of what they seek to achieve, mastery will be far more achievable.

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For the police service, this study has also demonstrated that learning is not restricted to an inward view. For those lacking in confidence, the silent or no-comment interview causes significant levels of stress or pressure. Written with honesty and self reflection, in a personable tone, No Comment offers interesting insight into the experience of working as a detective attached to CSU in London, albeit under unusual circumstances. It was proving controversial because it allowed entrants to fast-track through the ranks, thereby bypassing any necessity to become, say, a police officer first, and learn on the job. These personal stressors, combined with the intensity of Jess’s training, induced a bout of depression that alienated her supervisor and led to workplace bullying, which directly precipitated her eventual resignation barely 12 months of graduation.An opportunity to conduct a no-comment or silent interview successfully will enhance self-belief, even if this success is experienced in a training scenario. The first time Detective Constable Jess McDonald interviewed a suspect who declined to answer questions, she was a little thrown. We see the immense pressure she is put under as she struggles to adapt to her extraordinary new circumstances – and weighs up whether she, or any of the other Direct Entry detectives - can survive in the force as it is. I sought to establish the effects of the pressure, stress and anxiety experienced by a police interviewer in no-comment or silent suspect interviews using a quantitative approach, in the form of a Likert-style survey.

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Under a year later, thanks to a controversial new initiative, she was a detective in the London Metropolitan Police Service. Dylan Voller, whose mistreatment in the Northern Territory’s Don Dale youth detention centre led to a royal commission, had sued the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian, the Centralian Advocate, Sky News Australia and The Bolt Report over 10 comments on their Facebook pages in response to news articles about him between 2016 and 2017.Jess was one of a hundred of the first rookies to go through an intense twenty-week training course, bypass time in uniform and fly solo as a detective investigating serious crime. While it will mean every Facebook user will have more control over what is posted on their profiles, the impact will be most felt among media organisations and other high-profile public pages that have struggled to moderate comments on Facebook posts on their pages. Overcoming the initial nerves in her first interrogation, DC McDonald endeavoured to play the part with conviction. This is supported by observations from Yeschke (1997), who commented that 'for anxious interviewers who lack self-confidence, a brief period of silence may seem almost endless'.

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And so when she saw an advert for the Met’s new detective scheme, she was intrigued, and swiftly enrolled. I’d seen Line of Duty, of course,” she says, “and so I knew that ‘no comment’ could happen, but when it happened to me… oof!I wrote what I saw,” McDonald says, “and, yes, it reveals an uncomfortable truth, but then the police are our public servants at the end of the day, and so we should know what goes on, shouldn’t we? Similarly, a study conducted by Schwabe and others (2007) revealed that low levels of stress can simplify learning patterns at the expense of cognitive flexibility, making it harder to apply knowledge to new situations. An unexpected silence signals that the normal conventions of communication have been violated, creating a sense of vulnerability. Having identified descriptive statements, I set seven dependent questions that contained indicators of the concepts of pressure, stress and anxiety. Facebook will allow every user including celebrities, politicians, brands and news outlets to determine who can and can’t comment on their posts.