Police Interrogation Techniques and Principles: A Human Rights-Based Examination in the Context of Bangladesh

Abstract

Some of the police interrogation techniques include misinformation baiting, alteration of a good police officer and a bad police officer, goofing off, casual conversation, separation from family, threatening or bullying, and expression of acceptance. Also, human rights based principles of police interrogation include respecting basic rights to life and liberty of the accused persons, not depriving his/her life arbitrarily, ensuring right of equality, and maintaining due process established by law at every stage. However, the police in Bangladesh are alleged to have violated these principles, whereas they also have different techniques of interrogation unlike or like the ones mentioned earlier. This research aims to analyze whether the police interrogation laws and practices of Bangladesh conform to human rights oriented police interrogation techniques and principles.