What?
First-ever
Davidhorn Police Interview Summit
For Whom?
Investigators and Police IT professionals
When?
5 – 6 March 2025
Featuring:
(more speakers to be announced)
Join us for the first-ever Police Interview Summit
Join us for a two-day Police Interview Summit in Copenhagen, March 5-6, 2025. This event brings together law enforcement professionals, researchers, investigators, and IT specialists from across Europe to explore Innovation in Investigative Interviewing and Police Interview Recording. You will meet peers to discuss challenges and share knowledge about your work.
Day 1 features keynote presentations from police leaders and interview experts that will touch on the latest updates on police interviewing trends, challenges and solutions. The afternoon splits into specialised tracks for interviewing practitioners and IT professionals.
Day 2 consists of a one-day introductory workshop on the ORBIT methodology. Workshop will be run by the researchers behind this scientific and groundbreaking method for building high-quality evidence from interviews.
We are proud to have some of the most prominent names in investigative interviewing on the program, including Therese Maria Rytter on importance of Investigative Interviewing, Emily and Laurence Alison on rapport-building, Dr. Ivar Fahsing on emerging global standards and Dr. Bente Skattør on AI implementations to improve productivity in the Norwegian Police. More speakers are to be announced.
We are rounding off day 1 with an engaging live taping of our popular podcast “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt” and networking session.
Police Interview Summit 2025 is your opportunity to:
- Connect with peers from across Europe
- Learn from leading experts in police investigative interviewing
- Gain practical insights into implementation strategies
- Explore the latest technological innovations in the field of police interview recording
Perfect for law enforcement decision-makers, investigators, and IT professionals working in police organisations across Europe. Register now.
Program: Wednesday 05 March
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| 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration and coffee | |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Opening keynote. Børge Hansen, CEO, Davidhorn | |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Driving innovation in the police with AI: A case from Norway. Dr. Bente Skattør, Senior advisor, Oslo Police | |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 – 11:30 | Why Investigative Interviewing is important. Therese Maria Rytter, Legal Director of DIGNITY; Vice-President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT); National expert of the UN Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) and Expert of the OSCE Human Dimension Mechanism (Moscow Mechanism) | |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | Emerging global standards in investigative interviewing. Dr. Ivar Fahsing, Detective Chief Superintendent/ Ass. Professor, Norwegian Police University College | |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Keynote TBC | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| Track: Innovation (Police IT Professionals) | Track: Investigation (Investigators) | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 Presentation: Setting up interview suites for evidential recording and what to keep in mind. Jeff Horn, General Manager UK, Davidhorn | 14:30 – 16:00 Keynote: Building rapport Dr. Laurence Alison, Prof. of Psychology, University of Liverpool (UOL) & Emily Alison, Associate Researcher, UOL | |
| 15:00 – 15:45 Presentation: TBC | 16:00 – 16:30 Workshop: Cognitive limitations and evidence building Dr. Ivar Fahsing | |
| 15:45 – 16:30 Workshop: Problem-solving technical Q&A Tech specialist TBC | ||
| – Both tracks – | ||
| 16:30 – 16:50 | Demo of Davidhorn’s Investigative Interview Solution and a look into the future. Magnus Green, CTO, Davidhorn | |
| 16:50 – 17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Podcast “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt“, live at Police Interview Summit: Prof. Laurence Alison and Dr. Ivar Fahsing | |
| 18:00 – 20:00 | Networking and chill |
Program: Thursday 06 March
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| 08:00 – 08:30 | Coffee |
| 08:30 – 12:00 | ORBIT Workshop pt.1 |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 – 17:00 | ORBIT Workshop pt.2 |
ORBIT Workshop Description
This seminar will discuss the problems associated with using coercive interrogation/ interview methods and the benefits of using Humanistic rapport-based approaches.
It will first outline the historical use of harsh interrogation methods in North America and the UK as well as the shift in the UK from interrogation to investigative interviewing and the adoption of non-coercive approaches.
It will then provide an overview of ORBIT – the first empirically-grounded and comprehensive model of investigative interviewing/ interrogation. ORBIT is derived from Prof. Laurence Alison and Emily Alison’s work in which their team analysed the largest global corpus of real-life interviews (in excess of 2,000 hours) conducted by the UK police and military.
Its primary research base is interviews conducted by the police and military with terrorist suspects. It has also been validated in Child Sex Offence police interviews and with victims of sexual offences. Bringing together over 70 years of combined research on Humanistic therapeutic approaches and interpersonal relating, ORBIT provides a theoretically-rich model of rapport-based communication for investigative/ intelligence interviewing.
As an internationally recognised model, ORBIT has been used in the UK, US and in other overseas environments to secure lifesaving intelligence. It has been trained to a range of organisation’s including UK, US and Dutch law enforcement and Military teams, UK War Crimes unit, UK Border Force Intelligence, Norwegian Counter Terrorism police and international Humanitarian organisation’s.
