Protocol on the Establishment and Oversight of “Méndez Centres for Investigative Interviewing” under COST Action 22128 ImpleMéndez can be found in here.

Academy “Stefan cel Mare” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Moldova cordially invites you to attend the 7th conference on “CRIME PREVENTION AND COMBATING: PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES” that takes place on April 10th 2025 (read more about the conference and the participation form from here). NB! If you plan to

Our Imple Méndez member from Spain, Jaume Masip is the new Editor-in-chief of Legal and Criminological Psychology. Jaume is interested in increasing the geographical diversity of contributions to the journal and encouraging the submission of articles dealing with cross-cultural aspects of legal psychology. Investigative interviewing is a topic within the journal scope, so you may consider submitting your

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