A tool for taking notes and analyzing investigative information.

During an investigation an investigator is expected to make sense of the detail involved. What is important and what is not may rely on the knowledge and experience of the investigator. This presentation will introduce an information processing method which promote a consistent approach to gathering detail which will identify categories of information. This will allow differentiation between evidential and investigative detail.

In addition when conducting an interview investigators have the difficult task of having to actively listen, formulate questions, and record notes all at the same time. This presentation will describe a note taking system which promotes the recording of detail and accurate processing of that detail.

Paul Chambers Bio

Paul Chambers recently retired as Senior Investigator at the Ontario County Public Defender’s Office. He held that post since the creation of the office in 2010. His journey to being part of the criminal legal system in upstate New York is an unusual one.
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He began by studying Chemistry at Portsmouth University. While there he interned at a Forensic Science Laboratory for 9 months working on a project to improve detecting explosives on hands to help investigate terrorism

After college he joined Hampshire Constabulary as a police constable.  In 1990 after a nationwide selection process he was transferred for to the Royal Cayman Islands Police in the Caribbean.

On his return to Hampshire Police, he was promoted to sergeant and supervised shifts of officers. He also performed the role of Custody Sergeant, responsible for the detention and welfare of those brought into custody.

In his spare time, he took a master’s course in Forensic Archeology at Bournemouth University.

He moved to the US in July 2001 and in 2003 he became a Medical Investigator at the Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office. He attended a course at St Louis Medical School and passed the exam to become a board-certified medico-legal death investigator.

While at the Medical Examiner’s Office he put the knowledge gained from his archeology course to good use, suggesting novel techniques such as Forensic Palynology and Isotope analysis be applied to a cold case. Tammy Jo Alexander

After working in the Medical Examiner’s office, He transferred to the Monroe County Public Defender’s Office to work as a Public Defender investigator. When the Ontario Public Defender’s office was created in 2010, he was asked to join them to create their investigation team. During his time there he organized multipletraining courses for investigators from all over NY state.

Trained in the PEACE framework and interested in the science of interviewing he has continued working with Forensic Interview Solutions and participates in delivering their scenario-based training using the PEACE method of interviewing across the US.