RECORDING INTERVIEW / INTERROGATIONS

Interview room recording is becoming standard practice for Police Departments and Sheriffs Offices everywhere. Some departments have been doing this since the ‘VCR days’. At the time this was the only way to record videos.

As digital recording of interview / interrogations are becoming more commonplace, law enforcement agencies have started seeing the BENEFITS of electronically recording interviews / interrogations, including:

  • Increased number of convictions and guilty pleas
  • Removes almost all pretrial / trial arguments over what actually occured or was said during an interview
  • Eliminates problem with suspects changing stories in court
  • Provides true picture of suspect before they are "cleaned up for court"
  • Provides easy review and time-stamping of previously missed body language showing evasion or guilt
  • Identification of previously overlooked inconsistencies
  • Increases public confidence over law enforcement activities
  • Provides for remote viewing and input on an interview by other investigators

FTR Interrogator 4.1 Package is a complete digital audio/video solution designed for use by law enforcement officials during the questioning of suspects, witnesses, and victims in interview rooms. The computer based solution enables users to record, play back, annotate (take notes), save, manage and share audio/video recordings in a simple and easy-to-use manner.

Other benefits provided by the FTR Interrogator 4.1:

  • Partner Viewing - The FTR Interrogator allows for any investigator to view an interview from their desk computer
  • Live Note Taking - Partners can take time stamped notes from their desk during the interview for easy retrieval of specific instances
  • Post Annotation - Linked / time stamped notes can be added when reviewing a recording
  • Organization - Easily pull up all interviews related to a case by using a case number search, even if there are hundreds of hours of recordings over several months
  • Retrieval - Find notes / recordings by searching for case #s, investigators, keywords or dates and times
  • Importing of Field Recordings - Digital recordings can be imported into Interrogator and the time-stamep note taking tool can be used
  • Save duplication time - Tape duplication and some programs take just as long to duplicate a recording as the original - so, a 2 hour interview takes another 2 hours to create a copy
  • Degrading Media - Tapes degrade over time making viewing and hearing difficult
  • Storage - Tapes are bulky and require a fair amount of space to store
  • Filing / Retrieval - Tapes or DVDs, must be physically stored.  Time is lost every time a recording must be found and pulled.  If lost or misplaced, a whole case may be jeopardized