Training

REPEAT: Attorney General's Guidelines - Dealing with Digital Material

Delivered by Mark Hardington

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

8th November 2022

Teams Broadcast - Online 

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Trainer Bio

Mark is an experienced investigator having spent 40 years working with Leicestershire Police, both as an operational detective involved in serious and complex investigations in many areas and as an investigative skills crime trainer. He has been commended for his work on 6 occasions and received numerous citations for achieving performance excellence. 

In his 9 years as a qualified crime trainer, he has specialised in both the design and delivery of Investigation and Interviewing skills courses to both Police Officers and Civilian Investigators at both PIP levels 1 & 2, including ABE (Visually Recorded Interviews) and Suspect interviewing.

He is PIP 2 advance interview trained (suspect) and has used this skill in a wide variety of situations in the workplace. He is a qualified A1 assessor. 

As a detective practitioner, Mark worked on numerous major investigations and has been involved in CPIA disclosure since the inception of the Act. He has carried his knowledge from involvement in serious and complex cases through to his role as a crime trainer. 

A fundamental part of the success to any investigation is compliance to The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 disclosure regime. Mark has been passionate about the subject and has delivered CPIA to a wide range of audiences. Following the HMCPSI/HMIC recommendation to police forces to establish the role of ‘disclosure champion', he was instrumental in the design and delivery of the training package for Leicestershire Police to ensure its implementation.

Course Programme

Back by popular demand!

This is a repeat of the course that was originally broadcast on 10th February 2022. 

Since the issue of the Attorney General's Guidelines in 2013, the advances in capability and use of technology within society have grown exponentially. Routine investigations are now more likely to feature digital material and Investigators will need to engage in dealing with such material.

The National Disclosure Improvement plans and the consultation on the Attorney General's guidelines 2020 recognised this development and the implications for both resource and technological capability and how this impacted on disclosure obligations.

The revised Attorney General's Guidelines 2020 have provided increased guidance on how to deal with electronic and digital material (Annexe A).

This bite size course will focus on the Investigation of crime involving digital material and will include:

- Reasonable lines of enquiry and communications evidence
- The general principles for the handling, examining and analysis of digital material
- Obtaining devices by seizure or co-operation
- The disclosure of relevant material
- The disclosure management document (DMD)

The bitesize training will be a total of 2 hours 10 minutes, with 2 hours of CPPD awarded. 

Joining information and presentation will be circulated 24 hours before the course, on 7th November ready for the training. Booking window closes Friday 4th November 2022. 

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch.