Eiríkur Valberg
Eiríkur Valberg is a Detective Chief Inspector in the Reykjavik Metropolitan Police in Iceland and a Ph.D. student in Policing. In the Reykjavik Metropolitan Police, he leads a team of detectives who investigate major crimes. He is also heavily involved in training police recruits and new detectives at the Centre for Training and Continuing Professional Development at the Icelandic Police and the University of Akureyri, respectively. Both through his academic and police careers, he has specialized in investigative interviewing of victims, witnesses, and suspects alike. Eiríkur has been a member of a national steering group for developments in investigative interviewing and an advisor for interviewing training in the Icelandic police. He has researched investigative interviewing in Iceland. His current Ph.D. is on the management and investigative decision-making in serious and complex criminal investigations.
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Eiríkur's current research is focused on investigative decision-making (including the impact of decisions in the interviewing room), management of major crime investigations, and investigative interviewing.
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Valberg, E., & Milne, R. (2024). How Cool can Méndez get? Investigative Interviewing practices - an Icelandic perspective. In D. Walsh, R. Bull, & I. Areh (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Investigative Interviewing and Interrogation (pp. 24 - 37). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003424444-4