Criminal Interview & Interrogation

This 3-day seminar is designed to teach and reinforce the sound fundamentals of the interview and interrogation process for the professional investigator.  This training course offers a broad range of cutting-edge methods and proprietary tools to conduct more effective interviews and interrogations, resulting in identifying the truth more efficiently and with less resistance.

Learn to assess verbal and non-verbal behavior and become more effective on the focus of an investigation and obtaining reliable information.  Gather a variety of non-confrontational interview and interrogation techniques to overcome the resistance of victims, witnesses, and criminal offenders.

Using actual investigations, this course offers a diverse collection of case studies to provide strategic tactics to establish guilt and prosecute the offenders. 

SEMINAR TOPICS INCLUDE:

· Room Setting and Preparation

· Interpretation of Verbal and Physical  Behavior

· Selective Interview Technique

· Fact-Finding Interview

· The Participatory Method

· False Confessions  

· WZ Non-Confrontational Method 

· Rationalizations

· Handling Denials

· Enticement Questions

· Development & Substantiation of the Confessions

· Elements of the Written and Formal Statements          

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

This course applies specifically to agencies whose personnel may be called upon to interview or interrogate suspects, victims, informants or witnesses of criminal activity. Investigators and associated law enforcement professionals conducting these inquiries will learn to apply interview and interrogation techniques that most often will uncover the truth and bring these cases to a successful conclusion.

BECOME MORE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE IN:

· Communicating and building trust with community members

· Choosing the most appropriate method for each case and subject

· Obtaining the truth more quickly and accurately

· Substantiating and closing more successful investigations

· Ensuring statements will be admissible at trial