Welcome back,I thought Id break this into two parts just to make things easier on the eye.Remaining silent during Police interview in my opinion is a matter of balancing probabilities. It is more likely you will implicate yourself in a crime and provide evidence useful to the Prosecution than it is that a case will proceed despite you remaining silent and adverse inferences being drawn from the same.As I explained earlier CID officers are trained to use the Conversation Management approach when interviewing. I have managed to obtain some Police training manuals and will go further details in the guide Im writing but in a nutshell this involves.-Collating all the evidence relevant to your case and preparing this in a format they can easily consult  usually in a timeline or storyboard format. Theyll also speak to the Custody Sergeant and get an idea as to your state of mind and obviously any medical issues such as if youre a smoker and will need to take breaks.-Meeting with your Legal Advisor if you have requested one. This is a crucial stage as it is in the interviewing officers interests to make a limited (but not full!) disclosure. If the officer fails to convince your Solicitor that there is a grounded allegation against you i.e there are reasonable grounds to suspect you of the crime for which youve been arrested.There are some officers who dont do disclosure  if that happens or the officer reveals nothing meaningful, the Solicitor will read out a standard response c/o the Law Society to the effect that the Police have failed to make any material disclosure and they will advise you to stay silent. If the case proceeds to trial, you will have a strong defence for remaining silent. Obviously if a Police Officer were to provide your Solicitor with all evidence held on file against you this would allow your Legal Adviser and you to concoct a plausible defence, covering all the facts, so obviously this is not in their interests either.As I outlined in my earlier post, the interviewing Officer(s) will usually take a middle of the road approach, saying for example that your fingerprints were found at a crime scene.A *good* Solicitor will then probe further into the matter such as asking where the fingerprints were found in relation to the crime itself, how many of them were there, is there any further evidence and so on. Any refusal to comment by the Police will be noted and will assist your Solicitor in advising you. Obviously its in the Polices best interest to allow you to try to provide an account at interview and then ambush you by revealing further evidence to show you are dishonest. As I will explain, this would be far more damning to your defence than your silence!-You will then be given a chance to consult with your Solicitor prior to the interview. Naturally anything I say cannot replace the advice they give you at this stage but I imagine they will tell you to refuse to answer any questions  inferences can be drawn from your silence at this point but it is generally advisable to let the interview play out as the initial questions the interviewing officer will ask are designed to gain information from you, not the other way round.More in Part 3