Interview & Interrogation
Quality & Excellence In Criminal Justice Training
Instructor Course

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