<P><EM>The Mindful Eyewitness Interview: Retrieving Cognitive Evidence</EM> assists investigators in gathering authentic, reliable information from eyewitnesses to identify the culprit, and improving the gathering of reliable information from private sector interviewers. It¿s a resource that offers the reader evidence-based techniques to enhance gathering reliable evidence and reveals the assessment component that measures the reliability of cognitive evidence.<B> </P></B><P></P><P>It is notable that currently there is minimal to no instruction or training offered to those individuals most-often tasked with interviewing an eyewitness about a criminal investigation. This fact is reflected in recent revelations of cases involving misidentifications and wrongful convictions of innocent people. The assumption that officials, trained in the rules of evidence, are asking the questions without proper understanding of the fragility of human memory. The reality is that eyewitness interview trai