{"id":50,"date":"2016-06-22T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T13:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voicenorthants.local\/myvoice\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2017-02-22T16:12:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:12:20","slug":"initial-investigation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/the-police-investigation\/initial-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Further investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further investigation is all about following the evidence and lines of enquiry.\u00a0The Police should inform you when;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have arrested someone<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interviewed under caution<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Released without <a href=\"\/myvoice\/glossary\/#letter-c\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>charge<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Released on police <strong><a href=\"\/myvoice\/glossary\/#letter-b\" target=\"_blank\">bail<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any changes or cancelations to bail conditions<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At this time the police will be taking statements from the victim and any witnesses, which is a formal means of recording personal accounts of the crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Once an investigating officer has sufficient evidence, they may formally interview the suspect.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This may be:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At their home or other place (Not under arrest)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By appointment elsewhere (Not under arrest)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the police station by appointment \u2013 voluntary interview (Not under arrest)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the police station in custody (Under arrest)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obviously for serious crimes, suspects\u00a0are under arrest and interviewed in custody. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A\u00a0suspect\u00a0is then formally given the opportunity to admit, deny, explain or make no comment to the allegations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How often will I be updated about the investigation? <\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The police will keep you up to date at important points in the investigation. You can agree with the investigating officer how often you would like to hear from them. Depending on the type of crime, it can take quite a long time to gather all the information that is needed. \u00a0Find out how long the average <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/open.justice.gov.uk\/courts\/criminal-cases\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">criminal case takes.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><div class=\"omsc-toggle\"><div class=\"omsc-toggle-title\"><b>Make your Victim Personal Statement<\/b><\/div><div class=\"omsc-toggle-inner\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>If you haven\u2019t yet, at this time you can make your <\/b><a href=\"\/myvoice\/glossary\/#letter-v\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Victim Personal Statement<\/b><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the <strong><a href=\"\/myvoice\/glossary\/#letter-v\" target=\"_blank\">Victims\u2019 Code<\/a><\/strong>, you are entitled to make a VPS at the same time as you make a witness statement to explain what happened when the crime took place. More information on the Victims Code can be found online <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cps.gov.uk\/legal\/v_to_z\/code_of_practice_for_the_victims_of_crime_(victim_s_code)_-_legal_guidance\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Witness statement can also be a Victim Statement. This statement forms the core of your evidence that is firstly accessed by Police, then the <a href=\"\/myvoice\/glossary\/#letter-c\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Crown Prosecution Service<\/strong><\/a>, the <a href=\"\/myvoice\/glossary\/#letter-d\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Defence<\/strong><\/a> Lawyer and finally the Court. In the first instance your victim or witness statement provides police with further lines of enquiry such as possible CCTV from the location of the incident if available, clues to other possible witnesses, description(s) of possible offender(s), clues to possible vehicles involved or location of possible forensic evidence.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A VPS is a statement that you can give to the police (or any agency or organisation assigned by the police to take the VPS on their behalf) if you have been a victim of crime. It is your way of telling the criminal justice system about the crime you have suffered and the impact it has had on you, whether physically, emotionally, psychologically, financially or in any other way.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The two stages of making a VPS<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>The VPS considered by the courts<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The VPS can be made at any time prior to the sentencing of the offender. This VPS is used by the courts. The VPS can be made at any time prior to the sentencing of the offender. When a defendant is found guilty, the VPS is considered by the court as far as it considers appropriate when determining the sentence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The VPS considered by the Parole Board<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The VPS can subsequently be updated for submission to the <a href=\"\/myvoice\/glossary\/#letter-p\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Parole Board<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0as part of the offender\u2019s parole review. The purpose of this VPS is to tell the Parole Board the impact of a crime on the victim and to enable them to assess whether it is safe to release the offender or to move them to an open prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What happens after all of the further information has been gathered?<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"helpful-block-content wth-theme-thumbs\" data-title=\"\" >\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"wth-title\">Did you find this page helpful?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a data-post=\"50\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/the-police-investigation\/initial-investigation\/\" data-post-title=\"Further investigation\" data-response=\"1\" href=\"#\" class=\"wth-green-btn icon-thumbsup\">Yes<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a data-response=\"0\" data-post=\"50\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/the-police-investigation\/initial-investigation\/\" data-post-title=\"Further investigation\" href=\"#\" class=\"wth-red-btn icon-thumbsdown\">No<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further investigation is all about following the evidence and lines of enquiry.\u00a0The Police should inform you when; They have arrested someone Interviewed under caution Released without charge Released on police bail Any changes or cancelations to bail conditions At this time the police will be taking statements from the victim and any witnesses, which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/the-police-investigation\/initial-investigation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Further investigation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326,"parent":9,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-parts\/sub-sub.php","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/1367"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicenorthants.org\/myvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}