Improving intoxicated witness recall with the Enhanced Cognitive Interview.

Rationale: Witnesses and victims typically provide the central leads in police investigations, yet statistics from past research indicates in many instances these individuals are intoxicated.

Objectives: To date, however, no research has looked at how best to interview such witnesses to maximise the amount of accurate information they recall.

Methods: In the present research, whilst on a night out, participants watched a videoed theft whilst either sober or moderately (MBAC = 0.