MADISON, Wis. -- Madison police said on Tuesday that they will adopt new guidelines for interviewing victims of sensitive crimes, but the policy isn't sitting well with everyone.

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Madison police will be allowed to use deception in interviews and interrogations only as a last resort, said police Chief Noble Wray.

The policy of using trickery or deceptions in police investigations was reviewed in response to outrage over a new book detailing the Madison Police Department's alleged mistreatment of a blind rape victim after she reported the crime in 1997. The book "Cry Rape" recounts how detectives using a ruse, pressured the victim into saying that she made up her story. The woman is identified only as "Patty."

DNA testing finally led to the conviction of a man in the rape and he was sentenced to a 50-year prison term, WISC-TV reported.

Police said that in some situations, such as the search for Audrey Seiler and her abductor, being less than honest could have saved a lot of trouble and resources. Authorities dedicated 150 police officers, search dogs and many resources in the case, only to find that Seiler fabricated her abduction.

In that instance, police said they could have told Seiler that they had evidence that didn't match her story -- whether they really had that evidence or not -- to see if she would change her story under pressure.

"It drove a lot of resources, took a lot of time. Maybe that would have been an instance where if it was employed, it could have resolved quicker," said Dorothy Doheny, a detective with the Madison Police Department who helped review the policy.

Wray presented the written guidelines on Tuesday following a 90-day review of the controversial policy. Wray said that the guidelines will restore trust in his department, give victims respect and minimize chances that detectives will force victims into recanting their statements.

But the guidelines, aimed at quieting critics, haven't but an end to the controversy over police tactics.

Alderman Austin King criticized the policy, saying that the guidelines only put the old policy into writing.

"Writing down policies is good but I wanted a new policy, not a written down copy of the old policy."

Detective Marion Morgan said the new guidelines don't represent a big change for the Madison Police Department.

"It's not going to be a huge operational change for us. It's not going to be a shift in thinking, a shift in philosophy, a shift in conduct," Morgan said.

But critics said that after a public apology from Wray to Patty, there should be more than just written guidelines of the same policy.

"If we were starting out from scratch and creating an ideal set of guidelines of how best to deal with victims, I would hope (the use of deceptive tactics) wouldn't be part of it," said Kelly Anderson, director of the Rape Crisis Center, who reviewed the policy.

But the police chief said that such techniques must not be entirely ruled out for police.

"We will work hard and treat victims with dignity and respect and sensitivity to try and make sure that does not happen, but there are no guarantees," Wray said.

King said that sexual assault is already an underreported crime and that more victims would come forward if policy would guarantee that they will be completely honest in their investigations.