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

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