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Blackstone's Senior Investigating Officers' Handbook is designed specifically to meet the quick-reference needs of any officer conducting a major investigation. The only portable step-by-step guide to the processes and actions involved in the role of a Senior Investigating Officer (SIO), it explains all the relevant procedures and instructions integral to the position in a clear and accessible style.
Now in its third edition, this Handbook takes you through all the stages inherent to an SIO's role: from decision making to the initial response and crime scene examination to setting up and managing an investigation, investigative strategies, forensic pathology and liaison with the media. Particular attention is paid to dealing with crime scenes, particularly terrorist-related, using social networking websites to good advantage, and investigating the sudden and unexplained deaths of children.
Whether you conduct, review, or take a professional interest in major crime investigations, this title will be an invaluable resource. The first practical guide to this important role, it is a must-have reference tool for any SIO or prospective SIO.
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Tony Cook, Regional SIO advisor, Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA),Andy Tattersall, Support Staff SIO, Homicide Support Unit, Greater Manchester Police
Detective Superintendent Tony Cook is a former Senior Investigating Officer at Greater Manchester Police and currently a regional SIO advisor for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). He has led and advised on major police investigations for more than 20 years and is the co-author of the Blackstone's Crime Investigators' Handbook and a contributor to the Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook: Practice and Procedure (now in its second edition).
Andy Tattersall, formerly Detective Superintendent in the Greater Manchester Police on the Force Major Incident Team, retired in 2007 after 33 years service and became the first ever Support Staff SIO in charge of a new Homicide Support Unit. A career detective with over 29 years in CID at all ranks, Andy is recognised locally and nationally as one of the most experienced investigators in the UK, holding the position of SIO for eleven years. He has led over 200 murder investigations, including gangland shootings, child homicides, hospital deaths, no-body murders and the prosecution of terrorist Kamal Bourgass for the murder of Special Branch Detective Stephen Oake in 2003.Andy received the Homicide Working Group National Award for his Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Homicide in November 2006.
