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Police Occupational Skills

The impact of individual differences on investigative interviewing performance: a test of the police interviewing competencies inventory and the five factor model

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Pages 1027-1045 | Received 09 Oct 2018, Accepted 09 Jul 2019, Published online: 23 Jul 2019

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