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The Garda Review, a policing practitioner publication in Ireland, features a two-page spread on the Méndez Principles and the launch of the Irish Méndez Centre for Investigative Interviewing in its November 2024 edition. The article was authored by the Centre’s co-directors and ImpleMéndez members, Prof Yvonne Daly and Dr Alan Cusack. They noted the background […]

We are inviting ImpleMendez members to apply for 1) Dissemination Conference Grants and 2) ITC (Inclusiveness Target Countries) Conference grants in Year 2 of our Action. The list of COST ITCs is available here. While applications are welcome from all members, we particularly welcome applications from those classified by COST as Young Researchers Conference grant applications

We congratulate our members Anželika Banevičienė, Zvonimir Ivanović and Denis Solodov who published a paper titled “Right to complain about mistreatment in criminal interviews and interrogations following international and EU law and the Méndez Principles” and Denis Solodov’s and Ilona Laurinaitytė’s paper Implementation of the UN’s principles on effective interviewing and interroga-tion – perspectives for

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

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

We are looking for members with creative qualities! We know many of our members have these qualities, but what we are looking for is a logo for the Mendez centres. Two of these are opening next week in Norway and Ireland, respectively.  We know further ones are being planned in the future. We would like

On 10th and 11th September 28 members from ImpleMéndez attended a workshop that reviewed, refined and enhanced their projects. The proposals for these projects were submitted in June, and in July members of the Management Committee had reviewed them and, subject to the budget for Year 2 of our COST Action, supported them. The workshop was

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

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:

Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling is calling papers for a special issue ‘Implementing the Méndez Principles: Cultural differences within effective interviewing and investigative practices’ guest edited by our members Paulo Barbosa Marques, Lennart May and Becky Milne. Read more about the call from here.