Are Police Allowed To Lie In Canada?

You’ve been arrested, and they’ve arrested you for murder. For example, they they’re bringing you into the interview, you might call the interrogation room. Are the police allowed to lie to you? That’s a good question, is it? They absolutely are. This is called part of the Reed technique, or deception-based interrogation. What happens is the police will sometimes convince you that they have overwhelming evidence that they don’t. They can say, look, we’ve got your DNA on the on the murder weapon. If the co-accuse has confessed, you should come clean. They can use all sorts of techniques and lives. They can point to boxes of materials they have. We’ve got your prints, right in the murder victim, all sorts of evidence and these witnesses we have, they’re trying to break you down. They’re trying to get you to talk and confess, and it’s a very accepted technique. They can lie throughout the entire interview. What is your right here? Well, you have the right to remain silent. A lawyer is going to tell you under Canadian Charter Rights and Freedoms, to remain silent, and that’s a long-standing common law, right. You just have to keep telling the police you’re not saying anything. Don’t answer their questions, because the lies will continue. You’ll be confused. You don’t know what’s the truth or the lie. And it’s a really good technique. When you see great police interrogate, oh boy, oh, boy, they really know what they’re doing, and they know how to break you down. They start with, you know, little social niceties, how you doing? You know, it’s your opportunity to tell your version of events. You know, this is you may convince us that you didn’t do it, that sort of thing. It’s all bull, sort of, so to speak. B.S., a lot of lies. It’s technique. They’re trying to get you talking, because, first of all, they want to have you confess, and second of all, they want to create a transcript for the trial. So, what you testify at the trial is very difficult to tell the same version of events twice the same way. Whether you’re lying or telling the truth, in a three-hour police interrogation, you’re going to forget to say things. You’re going to say things inconsistency. You’re going to be on the witness stand two years later. Oh my god. Why did I say that? Well, I was confused, I was stressed, and they’re using this Reed technique, which is a fantastic technique, to break people down. So exercise your right to remain silent. Make sure you call lawyer. The lawyer is going to tell you the same thing that I am.  To just, shut up. Keep telling the police I’m not saying anything. I’m exercising my right to silence. Keep saying this for every question, frankly, until they give up. Eventually they’ll give up. They might keep you in there and keep talking. They’ll keep using the Reed technique, keep lying. But if you do that, you’ll be able to resist the pressure, even over a few hours, like in a murder case, they might keep you in there a few hours, but, but don’t do it. Just shut up. That’s the bottom line. Listen to the advice lawyer of your lawyer. Many people don’t like they want to go in and tell their story. They think it’s going to help them. It doesn’t. I mean, exercise the right to remain style. It’s not like you’re in high school and you’re down to the principal’s office and you have to tell the principal what happened to during a fight. I mean, you know, even then you might not want to say anything but this is a criminal issue. You’re facing serious charge. Don’t listen to the police, and you can assume they’re going to lie through their teeth through that entire interview if they’re using a proper Reed technique, and they know what they’re doing. And boy, oh, boy, some of them can really bring home the bacon. What’s the bottom line here? Exercise your right silent. And the police can and will lie to you consistently throughout any interview or interrogation when you’re in that room and it’s a stressful situation, and just shut up.