Major kudos to the Fort Lauderdale Police Department which has announced they will videotape all homicide interrogations from start to finish to reduce the chance of a false confession.

"Fort Lauderdale is the first large police department in South Florida to videotape murder interrogations in their entirety, a reform urged by false-confession experts nationwide to prevent coercion, improper promises of leniency, off-the-record threats and beatings by detectives."

''We're looking forward to it and welcome the new procedure,'' said Capt. Bob Lamberti, who heads the Fort Lauderdale Criminal Investigation unit. ``We think it's in everyone's best interest -- attorneys, prosecutors, judges, detectives, the whole criminal justice system.''

"The Fort Lauderdale department studied other police agencies and concluded that ''the advantages of taping far outweighed any perceived disadvantages,'' according to a statement"