Interview Recording

In the past few years, it has become clear that financial regulators are upping their game in battling market abuse. In putting together a strategy to encompass all the different regulatory requirements many of which admittedly revolve around ensuring appropriate professional behaviours, face-to-face meetings should not be left out of the equation. After all some of the most important communications are taking place face-to-face. Although at the moment the FCA and MiFID II do not explicitly require the voice recording...

The whole drive around PCI compliance is focused at stopping fraud most of which starts from within an organisation and this along with employee theft accounts for just over £1 billion in losses to the UK. Preventing fraud is one part of the equation but so too is dealing with it when it happens, this normally starts with the suspicion of specific individuals and a subsequent investigation process. Investigative interviewing is a delicate area and professionals in this space use...

Mention ‘interview recording’ to most people and the image conjured up is an episode of ‘New Tricks’, a hapless soul in a dingy room with 2 detectives and a cassette recorder straight out of 1986 – but it doesn’t need to be that way, especially in the big, bright business world. In 2013 we have a better recipe:- take a liberal helping of interview recording applications, mix in thoroughly with good quality data centres and then serve up as a...

[Last updated: August 2016] Once the exclusive domain of police stations and tribunals, the recording of specific interviews and meetings is now moving into the realm of normal business usage, very much for the protection of all parties and especially so when the relationship is between employee and employer. Following cutting edge development of recording technology for UK police forces, general business has been quick to realise the commercial benefits this technology can bring, in providing an accurate record of...

The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) have announced that the Complete Online Digital Evidence System (CODES) developed by Business Systems and Damovo has been added to their national framework arrangement. CODES,  a police interview recording solution, meets the needs of today’s police forces by being fully modular. Forces can quickly and easily replace existing recorders with a low cost digital solution, whilst having all of the capability of scaling up to a fully networked system for the handling of digital...

Developed exclusively for Police forces as the next generation of interview suite recording, the CODES system was previewed to a select group of officers at an invitation-only event in November. The system, developed jointly by Business Systems and Damovo received a warm response from officers as it was clear to all that the product design had taken into account the exact nature of the interviewing officer’s role. The system goes on general release in February. CODES, which stands for (Complete...