Law, Evidence, Procedure and Best Practice Reviews

Great course - content and trainer were excellent.

I found the course really interesting. Liane's delivery was excellent, the pace of the course was good, I found the Rooms to discuss / work through the activities really useful.

The course trainer was wrong in her in interpretation of when it is necessary to caution a D. Unfortunately she was rather rude in the way she dealt with this. This was addressed at the following days training at my instigation, however the fact that the initial training was wrong was never conceded. One trainer appeared to be under the impression TS enforcement powers originate from PACE. Whilst we need to have regard to PACE our enforcement powers originate from elsewhere. The last exercise on Day 2 - I was left bewildered by what this was intended to achieve. The trainer clearly stated that in some circumstances it was possible to admit an interview clearly in breach of pretty much every PACE interview requirement. Further, we were required to argue for it's inclusion regardless of the fact that it contained no evidence on which any prosecutor would seek to rely. Surely this is not best practice and not what we should be taking from the course. The trainer had a point to make, and that appeared to involve making the attendees uncomfortable - this was exacerbated by her making up facts on the spur of the moment that were not part of the original exercise brief. The attendees have a very varied level of experience. I have spoken to people who have only been with the Service for a matter of months or weeks. They are in a state of complete confusion. Personally, what I did know to be 100% correct was wrongly cast into doubt.

Real life scenarios and anecdotes useful to aid understanding.

Break out rooms were a great way to break up the course

Both Liane and Ren are excellent tutors and the course handouts are extremely informative.

Thank you, really informative and enjoyable, and I'm really looking forward to the remaining training sessions.

for my roles as an inspector this will help with the process of gathering evidence etc from the very start of finding a non compliance. also will be able to share what i have learned with my team.

Overall, an excellent course that was superbly delivered. Trainer had an excellent presentation style and was very knowledgeable with excellent real life examples.

the lead of the coursewas very knoledgable and helpful in relating subjects to our related fields of work