Are you looking for ways to develop your interviewing skills? your skills or looking to enhance the skills you already have, our course will give you what you need. If you are a police officer, federal agent, corporate investigator, military de- briefer, or other professional who requires interviewing skills, this course will give you the tools you need to succeed. This course is a comprehensive 24 hour block of instruction.

This course was developed by Law Enforcement Instructors Alliance for the FBI and DEA is now available to you!

All instructors are experienced law enforcement interviewers who will teach proven techniques and methods that produce results in the "real world." At the same time, participants will learn the shortcomings of outdated techniques and theories that are currently being taught to many law enforcement officers.

This course is a behavioral science approach to criminal interviewing and interrogation based on over 90 years of combined experience combines with related scientific research. The success of any investigator is directly related to his or her ability to conduct effective interviews and interrogations. The goal of this course is to improve the ability of both new and experienced investigators to "detect deception" maximize information gathering and obtain "legally admissible" confessions from suspects.

Topic areas will include:

• Psychological profiling
• Crime scene analysis
• Criminal psychopaths
• Psychological disorders
• Thinking errors of sexual offenders
• Proper questioning methodology
• “Myths” regarding lie detection
• Results of Recent Interviewing Studies
• Detection of Deception. What's Accurate and What's Not?
• Stress in the Interview Room for the Suspect and the Interviewer
• Lying and Misrepresentation by Law Enforcement, What's Legal and What's Not?
• Advanced Rapport Building Techniques
• Effective Strategies to Obtain Confessions
• Hear and See from Real Suspects on why they Confessed or Did Not Confess Law Enforcement
• False Confessions and how “hired gun” expert witnesses attempt to discredit police officers
• Advantages and Pitfalls of Videotaping

Comments from past attendees:

"Today's law enforcement officers deserve quality training from
experienced professionals like these"

"I urge you to compare the experience and qualifications of this
team of instructors, before selecting a training program"

"This class is designed as a Real World approach to conducting
interrogations that will lead to convictions"