Example sentences of "of police investigations " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orne is certainly not enthusiastic about witnesses hypnotised during the course of police investigations later testifying in court , but he feels that such testimony may be acceptable if the entire proceedings are videotaped , so that verbal and non-verbal cueing can be picked up , the independent hypnotist is ignorant of the details of the case , and the subject 's contacts with all possible sources of information about the case are known . |
| 2 | The theory is that the results or factual conclusions of police investigations have no special standing but have to be proved by admissible evidence just like any other relevant fact . |
| 3 | Indeed , it would bode ill for our political system if we mistrusted our state organisations , and if the courts approached the results of police investigations with the assumption that nothing can be taken at face value . |
| 4 | The cognitive obstacles in the way of police investigations |
| 5 | The need for a verifying procedure is not displaced by the existence of legal rules for the conduct of police investigations . |
| 6 | While some norms designed to secure proper management of police investigations are clearly desirable , the inevitable tensions that some of them produce make it all the more important to have some systematic verification of the truth value of the police case . |
| 7 | To increase the reliability of police investigations we need , in the first place , to accept that the cause for flawed police results is generally rooted in serious problems encountered in attempts to determine what happened in the past . |
| 8 | An inquiry has indeed been set up by Gwynedd county council , but I understand that it is currently suspended because of police investigations . |
| 9 | It would consider in particular whether changes were needed in the conduct of police investigations ; the role of the prosecutor in supervising the gathering of evidence ; the role of experts in criminal proceedings , and the relationship between forensic science services and the police ; the access of defendants to legal and expert advice ; the powers of the courts in directing proceedings ; the role of the Court of Appeal in considering new evidence on appeal ; and arrangements for investigating allegations of miscarriages of justice when appeal rights had been exhausted . |