Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Justice Studies

Learning Methods

Online

Module Offerings

7209PS-APR-MTP
7209PS-JAN-MTP
7209PS-SEP-MTP
7209PS-SEP_NS-MTP

Aims

Breakdown of delivery and contact hours per week. There will be 33 hours of total delivery for this Module. This will include 3 hours online presentations per week for each of the 11 topics. Additional direct contact is made as and when required between the Student and Module and / or Programme lead. The specific module will be open to all Students. How can we secure the vital information required to address a current or emerging threat to public safety or a specific community or individual? How can we maximise a persons’ recall of critical intelligence in terms of both accuracy and volume? How can we apply Intelligence elicitation methods that are both are ethical and legal while still being operationally effective? This module is primarily about the methods, research and processes relevant to securing information that assists those responsible for the mitigation of threat and are required to making critical decisions based on the availability of good intelligence. Through the effectiveness of their informed decision making there is an opportunity to better anticipate and improve operational responses and, as a consequence, protect community safety. The programme will explore the underpinning governance, legislation and procedures relating to the application of techniques aiding the elicitation of intelligence in support of a reporting requirements or reactive and proactive operational activity. The module will enable students to develop an advanced and critical knowledge of key methodological issues. Students will critically assess these provisions in the context of debate around privacy -v- security, coerciveness -v- non coerciveness and operational effectiveness. The programme will explore the science underpinning elicitation techniques, critically appraising the evidence and exploring the research’s application in real world settings. It will identify practices that are utilised and discuss the evidence based for each to determine ‘what works’ and ‘what does not’. The curriculum will allow students to generate a critical appreciation of the diverse range of elicitation techniques, the associated ethical angles, the limitations and caveats of its use and the underpinning cognitive theories. The programme will use real world examples to advance a student’s critical appreciation of the logistical, political and ethical issues related to the application of good research to the operation of elicitation of intelligence.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Ethics from historical and theoretical perspectives Policy formation in Government and Policing Legislative and regulatory provisions and oversight Cognitive interviewing and interrogation theory and research Questioning techniques and strategies Use of non-coercive and coercive techniques - policy and practice. The principles of Intelligence-led policing
Additional Information:Core Topics Intelligence elicitation, regulatory control and oversight. LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1,2 The ethics of intelligence elicitation. LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1,2,3 Defining and identifying ‘Good’ Intelligence. LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1,2 Enhanced Interrogation: the effectiveness of non-coercive and coercive techniques. LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1,2,3 The use of rapport: Tackling desistence and building rapport LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1,2,3,4 Eliciting intelligence from memory: Innovative tools, techniques and approaches. LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1,2,3,4,5 Maximising the Quantity and Quality of information. LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1,2,3,5 Identifying and tackling deceit and deception LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1,2,3,4,5 The Cognitive Interview and other interview modules LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1,2,3,4,5 Cyber / Digital elicitation techniques. LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1,2,3,4,5 Elicitation Case Study: Prison Debriefing LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1,2,3,4,5

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