Download or read book The Right to Silence in Police Interrogation written by Roger Leng and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 1993 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the present law no person, including a suspect, is obliged to give information to the police in the course of a criminal investigation. But is the use of this right to silence evidence of guilt? Should the law be reformed? Those who argue that it should say that it would allow more effective prosecution and conviction of offenders. This study researches the evidence for this claim and examines the other issues surrounding this debate.