Course Information:
Statement Analysis,
Interview & Interrogation Techniques

This program is designed to provide police officers, criminal investigators, and the crime analysts who assist them with a systematic and scientific methodology that enables them to detect deception from the written statements, verbal statements, and physical behavior of crime victims, witnesses, and suspects, maximize the quantity and quality of information obtained from these persons, and significantly enhance the interview and interrogation process.

This is a one-week (36 hour) "hands-on" program that provides you with techniques you can use immediately to solve the real-world problems that daily confront law enforcement personnel. Once trained, you will know not only how to psychologically control the interview process, but how to use a variety of methodologies to obtain valuable information from eye witnesses and suspects while decreasing confabulation. Additionally, you will learn the latest methods for detecting deception through both verbal and nonverbal clues. You will then be shown how to use these powerful techniques to create a unique interrogation plan that is specifically designed to appeal to an individual offender's personality and values.

Presented in a comfortable, non-threatening environment that permits both individualized coaching and group instruction, the training takes a "learn-by-doing" approach that gives you many opportunities to actually perform the tasks associated with statement analysis and the interview and interrogation process. You'll also be taught techniques of effective listening, how to enhance victims' and witnesses' memories (and your own memory!), how to detect both confabulated memories and/or deception, and how to develop a scientifically-based, systematic approach to criminal interrogation. This format of instruction allows for not only a highly-interactive exchange between you and the facilitator, but offers unique opportunities for group interaction and collaboration. Translation: You'll learn a lot and have fun, too!

You Should Attend If:
• You are a major crimes investigator, sex crimes investigator, or a crime analyst who assists such investigations

• You are a patrol officer who may be required to interview victims, witnesses, or suspects at crime scenes

• Your job involves interviewing and the evaluation of people

• You are employed by a prosecution unit and required to evaluate victims, witnesses, suspects, and/or evidence.

Here's What You Will Learn
This course will provide you with an arsenal of techniques you can use to effectively increase communication and eyewitness information, detect deception, and obtain legally admissible confessions. You will also learn how to develop and customize specialized interviewing and interrogation plans based upon your knowledge of the individual suspect as well as the offense itself. We'll demystify essential professional skills involving:

Operational Issues
• How to Use Effective Statement Analysis Techniques to Instantly Determine Who is Telling the Truth and Who is Lying

• How to Develop a Dynamic Interviewing Plan

• How to Know Exactly When and Where a Subject is Editing a Story—and How to Get Them Back to the Truth

• How to Effectively Control the Interviewing Process

• How to Conduct a Cognitive Interview

• How to Use the Cognitive Interview to DOUBLE the Amount of Details Remembered by a Witness While Reducing the Amount of Confabulated and/or Inaccurate Recall

• How to Develop Critical Listening Skills

• How to Deal with the "I Don't Remember!" Response: Understanding the Effects the Interviewing Process has on a Witness's Memory

• How to Improve YOUR OWN Memory!

• How to Develop Bonding Methods to Avoid Witness Contamination

• Hard to Believe but True! How to Discover Hidden Motives and Reasons for a Suspect's Deception to the Extent that They Believe You Can Actually Read Their Mind!

• How to Develop a Systematic Approach to the Interrogation of Criminal Suspects

• Make Them WANT to Confess! How to Tailor-Make Interrogation Themes that will Appeal to Individual Suspects

• How to Improve Your Investigative Confidence!

• And much, much more!