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Launch of the Irish Méndez Centre for Investigative Interviewing

Today in Dublin, Professor Yvonne Daly (Dublin City University, Ireland) and Dr Alan Cusack (University of Limerick, Ireland) launched the Irish Méndez Centre for Investigative Interviewing. The launch event was attended by more than 80 people including representatives of agencies who conduct investigative interviewing in Ireland – An Garda Síochána (the police), the Corporate Enforcement […]

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First Méndez Centre For Investigative Interviewing launched in Oslo, Norway

On September 16th 2024 the first Méndez Centre For Investigative Interviewing was launched in Oslo, Norway, at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR). The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), International department, based at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo, is dedicated to promoting human rights globally through education, research, and

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BEJUST: Breaking Barriers to Enhance Criminal Justice Interactions and Safeguards for ASD in Portugal

Our Action member Telma Sousa Almeida from Portugal got support from Social Research Call 2024 from the The Social Observatory of “la Caixa” Foundation to the project ‘BEJUST: Breaking Barriers to Enhance Criminal Justice Interactions and Safeguards for ASD in Portugal’. The project is hosted by William James Center for Research, Ispa – Instituto Universitário

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ImpleMendez conference grants supported three conference presentations

In summer 2024 our Action supported three of our members from ITC countries to present their research in scientific conferences. Laurena Kalaja from Albania (on the photo, left) participated in British Society of Criminology conference called ‘Criminology in Times of Transition’ in July 2024 in Strathclyde University, Glasgow, with the presentation ‘Reforming Solitary Confinement Policies:

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Training School in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Our first ever ImpleMéndez Training School took place in the beautiful city of Ljubljana, Slovenia, on July 2nd and 3rd 2024. 27 members of our growing international network gathered together, across disciplines and jurisdictions, under the theme of “Implementing the Méndez Principles in Suspect Interviews.” For this initial Training School priority was given to “young researchers” as

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ImpleMéndez Management Committee Meeting in Coimbra, Portugal

Between May 14th and 16th 2024 40 members of the ImpleMéndez project (COST Action 22128) met in the beautiful, historic University of Coimbra, Portugal, to work on our ongoing mission to support the implementation of the Méndez Principles on Effective Interviewing and Information-Gathering. We reflected on the achievements of the ImpleMéndez project in its first

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