Suspect Management
Tony Cook · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2023
This chapter highlights significant tactical elements of suspect management. It begins with suspect identification. Suspects can be identified through a variety of methods, such as being found in the act of committing a crime, witness/victim interviews, forensic evidence, passive data collection, admissions, information and intelligence, analytical work, proactive overt or covert work, financial investigation, or just simple, prompt actions taken at or near a crime scene. The Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) may need to produce a strategy that outlines various methods in which suspects can be identified. The chapter then looks at the issues surrounding a decision to declare ‘suspect’ status, the making and timing of arrests, detention and interviews, recovering forensic evidence, charging, and bail, including some practical points on ways to conduct effective and proactive suspect hunts.