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Calling of witnesses

Police (Identification Parades) Regulations, reg. 13 · Revised Edition 2020

Witnesses shall be brought in one at a time. Immediately before the witness inspects the parade, the identification police officer shall inform him that the person he saw on the previous occasion may or may not be on the parade and that if he cannot make a positive identification he should say so but that he should not make a decision before looking at each member of the parade at least twice. The officer shall then ask him to look at each member of the parade at least twice, taking as much care Police 75 and time as he wishes. When the officer is satisfied that the witness has properly looked at each member of the parade he shall ask him whether the person he himself saw on an earlier relevant occasion is on the parade.
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