| Interview & Interrogation |
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This Course Is Only Available In The Lengths Of 80 Hours |
All Training Materials Are Included |
| The Course This is an 80 hour course on Interviews and Interrogations designed for persons interested in teaching interview and interrogation skills to law enforcement professionals that want to improve their interview and interrogation skills. This course will teach instructors to train students on what really works in the field. It will demonstrate techniques to improve the quality and quantity of information gathered during routine interviews as well as increase the number of confessions during interrogations. The techniques that are taught in this course have been tried, tested and proven to work in real life situations. It provides the base information for the interview and interrogation course and the methods to deliver material to the student instructors. |
| Course Description The course is accompanied by a workbook "An Investigator’s Guide To Interviews and Interrogations." by John Bowden. An instructors manual containing handouts, overhead masters, exercises, exams and all of the materials needed to teach the interview and interrogation course. The materials also includes a 1 hour video on structured questions used in conjunction with the workbook and the instruction. The presentation of the course is by lecture accompanied by videos, and numerous handouts. The course is supported by practical application exercises that allow the students to practice the skills and techniques taught during the course. The student will learn basic instructional skills needed to present the interview and interrogation course. This course has been presented to line officers, police investigators from across the United States as well as Investigators from around the world. Students that have taken this course have reported excellent results using these techniques to teach and a significant improvement in their interview and interrogation skills. This course requires the student to have attended the basic interview and interrogation course. It is recommended that the student to have also attended the advanced interview and interrogation course. The student should have experience and practice in using the interview and interrogation techniques taught in this course. The methods presented will be a review of the interrogation techniques taught with a concentration on how to present the material to the criminal justice student. The goal of this course is to train the student to instruct others in the methods of conducting more effective and productive interviews and interrogations. Interviews that get more quality information and interrogations that end in confessions. COURSE OVERVIEW |
| WITNESS ASSESSMENT Learn the different types of witnesses and the proper approach to gain the most information. PREPARATION Steps to be better prepared to conduct effective interviews and successful interrogations. How the color environment effects your interviews, what is the best way to set up your interview room for conducting an interrogation. What can you do to be better prepared to conduct your interviews and interrogations. APPROACH TO THE SUBJECT Elements of establishing better rapport with subjects. Know when a rapport has been established. Learn techniques that lead to getting more information from interviews, confessions and interrogations. COGNITIVE INTERVIEW Memory enhancement techniques used to help the interviewee to recall more information than is ordinarily possible by conventional means, as effective as hypnotism and legally admissible. VISUAL CUES Learn how the eyes act like cursors in the storage and recall of information. Learn how to apply that knowledge to determine if a person is recalling or constructing information. Participate in practical exercises that apply the use of visual cues. A valuable tool to quickly reveal if an interview subject is making up information. INTERVIEWING WITH KINESICS Learn how body language is used in everyday communications and how to read non-verbal gestures. See and discuss examples of body language in everyday life. Learn how to read kinesic behavior in conjunction with the interview and interpret kinesics as it applies to the interview. |
| MEANINGFUL BEHAVIOR Review the types of behavior that are meaningful to the interview. Review slides and videos of behavior and discuss its relationship to the interview. DIAGNOSTIC QUESTION INTERVIEW Learn how to conduct a structured interview that will help determine a person's innocence or guilt. A technique that will quickly help to identify the guilty party and speed up the process that leads to the interrogation. THE INTERROGATION Learn the interrogation using topics to develop an interview strategy leading to a confession from the subject. THE ALTERNATIVE QUESTION Learn how and when to ask the alternative question to get the first admission, the first step towards a confession. THE ADMISSION Learn to recognize the most subtle verbal and non-verbal admissions, reward it and turn it into a full confession. CONFESSIONS Learn the critical elements of obtaining a full confession from a subject that has been interrogated INTERROGATION EXERCISES Put into practice the interrogation techniques you have learned by actually conducting interrogations in the class room. Receive feedback on you skills and pointers on how to improve your technique INSTRUCTOR TECHNIQUES Learn instructional techniques on how to present interview and interrogation course material to students. The students in this class will be required to give a 50 minute presentation on interviews and interrogations to the class. |
A Professional Certificate Is Issued With Each Course |