crazyheart
Police Questionaire
Posted on: 08/14/2010 13:15
Earlier this week neighbours of a couple and their young son killed in their townhouse put up a memorial for the family. Now they are shocked by a questionnaire Regina police are getting them to answer.
Photo Credit: Global Regina, File
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Residents living in the Regina townhouse complex where three people were found dead last week are raising concerns about how police are handling the situation.
They say police asked them to fill out a questionnaire which asks difficult questions including “Did you have any involvement in this murder” and “Should I believe your answers to the questions?”
Area residents say they feel uneasy after an already emotional week.
“You felt like you were in the wrong,” Mandy, who did not want her last name used, said. “That’s exactly how a lot of people felt – that we were the ones who were in trouble.
“Everybody wants answers and we know we can’t have those, but a little reassurance would be nice.”
The victims in last week’s homicide were identified as Gray Nay Htoo, 31, Maw Maw, 28 and their three-year-old son Seven June Htoo
Have you ever heard of the police doing this?
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crazyheart
Police in Regina distributed
Posted on: 08/14/2010 13:19
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2010/08/13/sk-regina-triple-homicide-questionnaire.html#ixzz0wbQqUpmN
GordW
So the questions were too
Posted on: 08/14/2010 14:02
So the questions were too blunt?
It seems logical that the police would question people in the neighbourhood where the crime occured.
Rowan
What ever happened to the
Posted on: 08/14/2010 14:08
What ever happened to the police questioning people in person. The paper questionnaire seems a tad less than apropraite to me. Also potentially ineffective. How do you judge from a paper if the person was lying?
graeme
Rowan raises an interesting
Posted on: 08/15/2010 18:18
Rowan raises an interesting point. It is quite normal and reasonable to question people who might know something, however little, about a homicide.
But the wording of the questionnaire suggests that the police are playing some psychogical game, perhaps one based on some sort of analysis of answers or handwriting. And that sounds a little dangerous.
DKS
Police questioning is a
Posted on: 08/15/2010 19:14
Police questioning is a psychological process (not a game). It's an investigation, with multiple tools. The media is right to ask questions about the "why" of this investigative technique, however.
graeme
psychological processes are
Posted on: 08/16/2010 10:16
psychological processes are quite often games, especially when applied by under qualified people. Remember the RCMP "fruit machine"?