CPIA - Disclosure and a fair trial

Recent high-profile cases have demonstrated just how important it is to understand and apply the Criminal Procedures and Investigations Act 1996 in all investigations. This one-day course is designed for non-police investigators, such as local authority officers and national government departments and agencies and is also suitable for new to role police staff investigators. Delegates will be taken through a brief history and understanding of why there is a requirement to retain material, review it and reveal it to the defence and crucially what makes a ‘reasonable line of enquiry’. There will also be an opportunity to consider the challenges behind digital disclosure and look at some tools to make that much more manageable and straight forward.

Course Content

• When CPIA applies - what constitutes an investigation

• The Responsibilities of Officer in charge, Investigating Officer and the Disclosure Officer

• The procedures regarding the Record, Retain, and Reveal functions

• The Advanced Information rules

• When disclosure is triggered

• Responding to defence case statements

• What must be disclosed

• Sensitive and non-sensitive material

• Completion of the disclosure forms

Who should take this course?

• Local authority officers

• Managers overseeing investigations or enforcement

Course Delivery - Online - 1 days

In order to meet your needs to be ‘COVID Secure’ we have now adapted all of our courses to be delivered fully online using Zoom or Microsoft Teams. They are delivered over 2 two hour sessions with a strict lunch break in the middle. We understand how learning online can be different and difficult and we make our courses as interactive, entertaining and relevant as we can so that your delegates will enjoy the experience.

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0203 150 0891

contact@bluelinelearning.co.uk