2.06 Game-based Learning for Police Training in Child Interviewing

We have developed an award-winning child witness interview training simulation (CWIS) that addresses gaps in the knowledge and skills of new recruits and serving officers when interviewing child witnesses to build rapport with children and develop the quality of communication skills. CWIS incorporates triggers for emotional recognition to support the training of rapport building of early career front-line police officers when interviewing children.

Embedding CWIS within training will enable the police to obtain the following benefits:

• Decreasing time taken to gain competency in child interviewing
• Promoting deeper understanding of the many factors affecting child interviewing in the real world
• Enriching traditional classroom training approach
• Enabling large-scale deployment outside the classroom

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