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Saturday, February 13, 2016

The dark arts of transcribing police interviews.

1. Everything said by the person being interviewed shall be written in capital letters to give the impression they are shouting.
2. Everything said by the interviewer will be written in the correct mix of upper and lower case.
3. Any grammatical error made by the person being interviews will be included.
4. Any grammatical error made by the interviewer will be omitted
5. Any requests made by the subject for definitions of words used will be included.
6. Any request for definitions made by the interviewing officer will be omitted, unless slang. e.g. "obsequious"
7. Any words mispronounce by the subject will be spelt phonetically.
8. Any words mispronounced by the interviewer will be correctly spelt. e.g. "anti path e" to antipathy.
9. All instance of the interviewee pointing out that the question being asked is loaded will be omitted, only the refusal to answer will be noted.
10. Any time that both the interviewer and interviewee are both talking will be described as the interviewee talking over the interviewer.
11. Any attempts by the interviewee to provide a full answer will be described as rambling.
12. Any attempt by the interviewee to assert themselves will be described as hostility, aggression or ranting.
13. Any attempt by the interviewer to assert themselves will be described as "calming the situation down".