Irish Méndez Centre for Investigative Interviewing
The Irish Méndez Centre for Investigative Interviewing was launched on September 18th 2024 at a prestigious launch event, hosted at Dublin City University. The co-directors, Prof Yvonne Daly (Dublin City University) and Dr Alan Cusack (University of Limerick), both have specific research and teaching expertise in relation to police custody, investigative interviewing and criminal procedure.
The Irish Méndez Centre will act as an important hub to support those involved in investigative interviewing in policing and other contexts across Ireland. The Centre has already hosted a bespoke training session for specialist garda interviewers on interviewing individuals with Autism. Centre members have also engaged with non-police investigative interviewers in state agencies in Ireland, introducing them to the Méndez Principles and highlighting the reach of those principles to all investigations and information-gathering settings.
Current plans for the Irish Méndez Centre include the creation of an online repository on investigative interviewing; a workshop on memory, psychology and interviewing for practitioners across agencies and roles; a workshop focused on interviewing child victims of serious crime; training for lawyers on the Méndez Principles and their role in upholding procedural and legal safeguards; and more.
For more details contact either yvonne.daly@dcu.ie or alan.cusack@ul.ie