Bond Solon Reviews

The trainer had a lot of IT issues and the session started late due to this plus during the day the IT issuers continued. The trainer was interesting and insightful but the IT issues did cause an issue.

The training could have been done in half a day. I feel that a lot of things were repeated and over explained. There was a whiteboard used where the trainer was writing things which was hard to see. These could have been put into a slide and shared. The stories that were said was irrelevant, but the trainer than asked as a group if we found them useful, which put you in a difficult and uncomfortable position to say no. The trainer did spotlight people who may have not been comfortable talking which was not a good tactic. As for the actual subject material, there was not much that I learnt.

The first 2 days had very little content - no update on CrimPr rules / case law etc. No best practice answers on experience / independence. Day 1 - just a general discussion around any concerns we had re written reports / oral evidence. We could have had this chat in house. Also gave contradictory advice to previous courses saying we should only answer questions in our subject area that we thought were relevant - i.e. not answer the questions (by asking judge to have question rephrased etc) if we do not believe they are relevant Day 2 - 60 minutes to discuss a report we were supposed to have pre read was circa 30 minutes too long. Key points not drawn out in a succinct summary / slide - just a short discussion at the end. Day 3 - no benefit to combine civil and criminal cases - they are very different and felt like wasted time watching cross examination of a civil report I had not read.

Good facilitator and very good at bringing the subject to life, but I would have preferred more formal strategies on how to manage conflict and less break out rooms.

Geraint was great and really appreciate his efforts. Feedback for Bond Solon - I didn't take as much away from the course as I would have hoped and am disappointed that this was a mandatory unit for me in my APCIP. I haven't learnt anything new so it has felt like a waste 2 days. I am an experienced investigator and this was almost entirely already known to me.

Very good session

I preferred the discussion element’s but overall very good- thank you

Overall learnt things to apply to my work and assignments understood the layout and role I play and how to structure reports and how they should be written with a checklist.

Trainer was very knowledgeable but i felt that this was very 'entry level' and aimed at candidates with little or no knowledge of disclosure etc. it was of limited use to those with a police or investigative background

Two short exercises in the whole day and no slides made it very hard going, especially when online. Richard's knowledge was excellent however