Witness Skills Courses

• To provide detailed information and practical experience to government witnesses on the delivery of evidence under cross examination
• For evidence to be provided in courts, tribunals, inquiries, investigations and commissions (or anywhere else where staff may be required to give evidence and be subject to cross examination).
• Suitable for ALL government employees that may be required to be witnesses, although particularly useful for:
• Managers, specialists and professionals within government bodies with limited experience in giving witness evidence or witnesses seeking to understand more about the evidential process.
• Government staff with limited court-room or cross examination experience but seeking to be confident in this.
• Government staff with some cross-examination experience but looking to “refresh” or hone their skills.
• Public servants who are professionals and are looking to refresh or maintain their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements
• Structure and content:
• Foundations
• Introduction to the court/trial process
• Role of a witness
• Considerations for public servants when giving evidence
• The giving of evidence
• Cross examination techniques
• Strategies to deliver evidence effectively
• Practical
• Mock cross examination session
• Discussed with witness, reviewed and analysed
• Repeat

Please see this brochure for more information on our Witness Skills – Public Servants courses

• To provide detailed information and practical experience to government and private healthcare professionals on the delivery of evidence under cross examination
• For evidence to be provided in courts, tribunals, inquiries, investigations and commissions (or anywhere else where healthcare professionals may be required to give evidence and be subject to cross examination).
• Suitable for ALL healthcare professionals that may be required to be witnesses, although particularly useful for:
• Managers, specialists and professionals within government health departments and other health organisations with limited experience in giving witness evidence or witnesses seeking to understand more about the evidential process.
• Healthcare professionals with limited court-room or cross examination experience but seeking to be confident in this.
• Healthcare staff with some cross-examination experience but looking to “refresh” or hone their skills.
• Structure and content:
  • Foundations
    • Introduction to the court/trial process
    • Role of a witness
    • Considerations for healthcare professionals when giving evidence
    • The giving of evidence
    • Cross examination techniques
    • Strategies to deliver evidence effectively
  • Practical
    • Mock cross examination session
    • Analysed with witness, reviewed and analysed
    • Repeat

Please see this brochure for more information on our Witness Skills – Health Services courses

• To provide detailed information and practical experience to “blue light” emergency responders on the delivery of evidence under cross examination
• For evidence to be provided in courts, tribunals, inquiries, investigations and commissions (or anywhere else where emergency services staff may be required to give evidence and be subject to cross examination).
• Suitable for ALL first-responder staff that may be required to be witnesses, although particularly useful for:
  • Police, fire, ambulance and prison services officers.
  • Managers, specialists and professionals within government emergency response departments with limited experience in giving witness evidence or witnesses seeking to understand more about the evidential process.
  • Emergency services professionals with limited court-room or cross examination experience but seeking to be confident in this.
  • First responders with some cross-examination experience but looking to “refresh” or hone their skills.
  • Professionals in emergency response looking to refresh or maintain their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements.

• Structure and content:
  • Foundations
    • Introduction to the court/trial process
    • Role of a witness
    • Considerations for emergency responders when giving evidence
    • The giving of evidence
    • Cross examination techniques
    • Strategies to deliver evidence effectively
  • Practical
    • Mock cross examination session
    • Discussed with witness, reviewed and analysed
    • Repeat

Please see this brochure for more information on our Witness Skills – Emergency Responders courses.

• To provide detailed information and practical experience to local council witnesses on the delivery of evidence under cross examination.
• For evidence to be provided in courts, tribunals, inquiries, investigations and commissions (or anywhere else where council staff may be required to give evidence and be subject to cross examination).
• Suitable for ALL local government employees that may be required to be witnesses, although particularly useful for:
  • Managers, specialists and professionals within councils with limited experience in giving witness evidence or witnesses seeking to understand more about the evidential process.
  • Council staff with limited court-room or cross examination experience but seeking to be confident in this.
  • Council employees with some cross-examination experience but looking to “refresh” or hone their skills.
  • Professional teams within councils who are professionals and are looking to refresh or maintain their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements

• Structure and content:
  • Foundations
    • Introduction to the court/trial process
    • Role of a witness
    • Considerations for council staff when giving evidence
    • The giving of evidence
    • Cross examination techniques
    • Strategies to deliver evidence effectively
  • Practical
    • Mock cross examination session
    • Discussed with witness, reviewed and analysed
    • Repeat

Please see this brochure for more information on our Witness Skills – Local Councils courses.

• To provide detailed information and practical experience to individuals or representatives of organisations
  required to deliver testimony in cross examination under subpoena
• For evidence to be provided in courts, tribunals, inquiries, investigations and commissions (or anywhere else
  where witnesses may be required to give evidence and be subject to cross examination)
• Suitable for ALL individuals persons, or employee or representative of companies or organisations or departments
  who are, or are likely to be subpoenaed to give evidence. It is particularly useful for:
  • Health and medical professionals, acting either as individual practitioners/consultants or
    representatives of health organisations
  • Public servants and other government staff
  • Emergency responders, such as police, fire and ambulance officers
  • Regulatory and quasi-government bodies and their staff
  • Corporates and companies who are themselves likely to be subpoenaed or whose staff individually are
    likely to be subpoenaed to give evidence

• Structure and content:
  • Part 1 – Fundamentals of Cross Examination under Subpoena
    • Nature of judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings
    • Types of witnesses and their duties
    • Specific considerations for subpoenaed witnesses giving evidence
    • The giving of testimony under cross examination
    • Counsel preparation to cross examine witnesses under subpoena
    • How witnesses should prepare for cross examination
    • Counsel cross examination techniques
    • Witness counter-measures and strategies to deliver clear and considered evidence
      effectively under cross examination
  • Part 2 – Cross Examination Practical
    • Mock cross examination sessions.
    • Mock cross examination of one attendee.
    • Reviewed and analysed by trainer with group.
    • Repeat with any other attendees and with original witness as required.

Please see this brochure for more information on our Witness Skills – Subpoena Training courses

• Investigative interviewing can be crucial to any investigation and it is important that it is undertaken correctly, in a non oppressive manner which maximises the information obtained from the interviewee. It is also important that interviewers can interview witnesses or those suspected of wrongdoing in the manner appropriate to the situation, as there isn’t a ‘one size fits all’ method of interviewing.
• We have some of the leading investigative interview trainers that are ready to work with you and your colleagues to ensure that you are equipped for the interviews that you will be required to undertake.
• All of our investigative interviewing training is quality assured and accredited plus it can lead to a recognised externally awarded qualification so you can demonstrate occupational competence as an investigative interviewer. We also offer learning pathways to ensure that your skills can be developed to keep pace with the skills that you require as you progress in the investigative interviewing arena.
• We offer investigative interview training programmes for a number of different sectors and organisations, including:
  • Local, state and federal governments
  • Police and law enforcement agencies
  • Private sector investigators (particularly insurance fraud investigators)
  • Human resources and internal investigations
  • Social workers and other care officers

• Courses are broken down into modules, covering the following topics:
  • Core Investigative Interview Skills
  • Conducting Suspect Interviews
  • Interviewing Witnesses
  • Advanced Investigative Interviewing Skills

Whatever your requirements in the investigative interviewing arena, we can offer training that will equip you to be the best you can be. Contact us now, without any obligation, for more details of our courses and a highly competitive quote.

• • It is also important that investigators can investigate matters of wrongdoing, whether they be criminal or civil, in the manner appropriate to the situation, as there isn’t a ‘one size fits all’ method of investigation.
  • We have some of the leading investigations trainers that are ready to work with you and your colleagues to ensure that you are equipped for the investigations that you will be required to undertake.
  • We offer a series of competency based modules that will allow you to perform the role of an investigator in a confident and competent manner or we can offer a joined up investigations training programme. This training can be delivered just as investigations training or it can be linked to our Investigative Interviewing training (above).
  • Some of the investigations training modules that you can undertake are:
    • The Core Skills in Conducting Investigations.
    • Statement Taking & Statement Writing.
    • Case File Preparation (inc Disclosure).
    • Giving Evidence for Professional Investigators.
    • Advanced Investigative Skills.

  Conducting an investigation correctly is crucial to ensure:

  • The investigation can stand scrutiny at a court, tribunal or at an independent review.
  • The risk of failed prosecutions is reduced.
  • Cases are investigated and presented to the highest standards.
  • Investigators are seen as professionals that can be trusted.

This is not an exhaustive list and rest assured we can assist you, no matter what training you need and all of our investigation training courses are quality assured and accredited plus they can lead to a recognised externally awarded qualification so you can demonstrate occupational competence as an investigator. We also offer learning pathways to ensure that your skills can be developed to keep pace with the skills that you require as you progress in the investigations arena.

Whatever your training requirements in the investigations arena, we can offer training that will equip you to be the best you can be. Contact us now , without any obligation, for more details of our courses and a highly competitive quote.

• The value of intelligence should not be underestimated. It can identify and drive lines of enquiry, allow decisions to be made about tactical options, priorities or when and where resources should be deployed. Intelligence is the lifeblood of operational activities and investigations, but it needs to be conducted in the right way and to be of value, whilst maintaining the security of the sources behind it.
• Our intelligence skills trainers are occupationally competent and are accredited, so they are at the top of their profession. They have been intelligence officers so they know the job from all angles, having worked for agencies at local, regional, national and international levels.
• Below is a summary of the intelligence course modules that we are able to deliver for you:
  • Introduction to intelligence
  • Core intelligence skills
  • Field Intelligence Officers
  • Internet investigations and Intelligence (Open Source Intel)
  • Analyst Training

• We offer this intelligence training across several different sectors and organisations, including:
  • Local, state and federal governments
  • Police and law enforcement agencies
  • Private sector investigators

We can deliver any of our intelligence courses face-to-face or virtually, in real time which can save you money and reduce abstractions from the workplace.

This is not an exhaustive list and rest assured we can assist you, no matter what training you need and all of our investigation training courses are quality assured and accredited plus they can lead to a recognised externally awarded qualification so you can demonstrate occupational competence as an investigator. We also offer learning pathways to ensure that your skills can be developed to keep pace with the skills that you require as you progress in the investigations arena.

Contact us now, without any obligation, for more details of our courses and a highly competitive quote.

• Various other forms of training to suit all needs are available on request. These include:
• Government disclosure training
• Health disclosure training
• Drafting and preparing witness statements
• Mock trials
• In-house CPD training for staff
• Mentoring of expert and professional witnesses
• Review of written reports – by recommended third party partners

Contact us to learn more.