| There is no question that the best technique to document the events of an interview or interrogation is a surreptitious electronic recording. When this option is not available, the investigator should have a suspect’s statements witnessed by a person not involved in obtaining the confession. If the witness is present during the entire interview and interrogation, the individual should not be someone personally acquainted with the suspect. Furthermore, that person should sit out of the suspect’s sight. If a witness is brought into the room following the confession, the investigator should repeat the suspect’s confession in the presence of the witness who should then independently question the suspect to obtain corroboration that the suspect, in fact, committed the crime and to elicit information to assess the voluntariness of the confession. | 
