investigative

ImpleMendez webinar #1 titled “Torture-Tainted Evidence: Theory, Investigation, and Litigation” with Alka Pradhan takes place on March 6th 1PM CET, register to the webinar in here. Alka Pradhan is a human rights attorney specializing in litigating the effects of torture on fair trials, most notably before the Guantanamo Bay military commissions in United States v. […]

Prof. Becky Milne from University of Portsmouth holds a public lecture titled ‘The Mendez Principles of effective interviewing an evidence based foundation: Achieving global police reform’ that takes place on February 12th at 4PM (GMT) in St George’s Building, SG 0.22 and online via Zoom (click here).

In Davidhorn’s podcast “Beyond a reasonable doubt” our action member Ivar Fahsing interviews several other members of the action regarding best practices of investigative interviewing – listen to the podcast episodes here.  

Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL) 2025, themed ‘Technological advancements and application in legal psychology’ takes place on August 5-8 2025 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Read more about the important dates including the abstract submission from here.

Dear Action members – if you publish a scientific paper or some other piece of writing that is connected to our Action, please add the following acknowledgement to the paper: “This article is based upon work from COST Action CA22128 (ImpleMéndez), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).”

Our action member Dr Linda Geven from Leiden University is looking for professionals with expertise in interrogations, interviewing, and confessions to participate in research on psychological influences in interrogations. The study aims to assess the knowledge of psychological influences in interrogation settings among professionals like yourself, as well as laypeople and police officers. As a

Check out a news article by our Action co-chair Prof. Yvonne Daly about the changing nature of the Garda station interview.

Our members Bernd Körber and Sabine Schildein let us know that they have published a paper with Olaf Maronde about modular training-concept in investigative interviewing explicitly based on the Mendez-Principles in German language. You can read the paper from here.  

The Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University led by our member Professor Inês Fernandes Godinho (Lusofona University, Porto) and Professor Mateusz Stępień (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) has a open call for papers on “AI and Judicial Experts in Europe: Opportunities and Challenges” to a forthcoming book. If you are interested then read more from

ImpleMéndez has a series of fabulous projects and Training Schools for 2025 ongoing throughout the year and being undertaken in Warsaw, Bucharest, Malmo, Freiburg, Vienna, Lisbon, Vilnius, Cardiff, London and Tampere! Topics and themes include; war crimes investigations, human trafficking, interviewing children, vulnerable suspects, training schools for police officers etc, planning implementation initiatives with senior