UK Police Suspect Identification Procedures and Practices, 2002

A Home Office Briefing Note from March 2002, authored by Graham Pike et al., provides the text of a report on police procedures. The document examines the usage of identity parades by British police, highlighting encountered problems and examples of good practice. The dataset is a single text document with an unknown word count.

Use Cases

• Analyzing procedural challenges in suspect identification based on the documented problems.
• Studying examples of good practice in police lineups for procedural reform.
• Conducting historical analysis of UK criminal justice methods based on the 2002 publication date.
• Text mining a government briefing note for themes in forensic psychology and eyewitness testimony.

Strengths

• Provides the full text of an official UK Home Office briefing note.
• Authored by a named researcher (Graham Pike) and published in March 2002.
• Focuses on a specific, documented police procedure (identity parades).

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; the dataset is a single text document.
• Last update date is unknown; the data is from 2002 and freshness is unverified.

Provenance

Source

UK Home Office (Briefing Note 2/02), authored by Graham Pike et al.

Collection Method

Likely a published government report or briefing note.

Time Range

Publication date March 2002.

Freshness

Published March 2002; no subsequent update information provided.

Geography

United Kingdom (focus on British police procedures).