THE ANALYSIS OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AND COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE IN POLICE INTERVIEW

Abstract

Interviewing is one of police officer procedures to dig information from suspect. The case in
which interview in police context is conducted are different. Therefore, in this paper, the case
is limited. The case taken for the data in this paper is a drug case. In the process of
interviewing drug cases, the police will use certain types of questions to obtain information
related to the drug case (for example: the origin of the drugs, how drugs were obtained, where
to get them and so on). This research is conducted to describe question types used by the
police in investigative interview process of drug cases, to find out what type of answer was
expressed by the perpetrator in the interview process, to find out the relationship between
preference format and the answer given by suspects, and to find out how the principle of
cooperation was applied in the interview process in drug cases. Precisely, the writer is
interested to know how question and answer can be formatted in linguistic viewpoint, how
preference format works and how they are related to cooperation principle. The theories of
Pragmatics will be used to describe speech exchange and cooperative principles. The
linguistic method used in this paper is qualitative method where category relation is
underlined. The results of this research concern to what kind of questions used by police to
retrieve information from the suspect, how the suspects answer the questions of the police,
how preference format can be related to the answer given by suspects, and how the
cooperative principles work in the interview