Graham Dossett is a former police officer who now uses his experience to advise on policing and human rights issues. He is currently a member of the advisory council for the development of a Universal Protocol for Investigative Interviewing, led by the Association for the Prevention of Torture, the Anti-Torture Initiative and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. In this episode, Graham joins Daragh Murray to discuss the importance of ethical, non-coercive interviewing practices.

Graham Dossett is a Visiting Fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. Having served as a police officer in the United Kingdom for thirty years, Graham gained extensive experience as a hostage negotiator and trainer. Since his retirement, he went on to complete the LLM in International Human Rights Law at the University of Essex and now works as an independent advisor in the field of policing and human rights.

Graham has undertaken work for a variety of organisations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, the United Nations, the University of Essex Human Rights Centre, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and others. He is currently serving as a member of the Advisory Council of a project undertaken by the APT (Association for the Prevention of Torture), together with Anti-Torture Initiative (ATI) and the Norwegian Center for Human Rights (NCHR) - the project aims to develop a set of guidelines on investigative interviewing by law-enforcement officials and on the implementation of associated legal and procedural safeguards. These guidelines aim to reduce the well-documented risk of mistreatment and coercion that persons face during questioning by law enforcement, and during the first hours of custody.

You can read more about the project here: https://www.apt.ch/en/universal-protocol-on-non-coercive-interviews/

Graham’s personal website: http://www.p-hr.org.uk/home