Course Offerings

Objectives for the basic course are 1) to provide the fundamentals necessary to conduct a proper interview and interrogation, 2) to provide a structured frame of reference for those interviewers who have some experience but also may not have had any formal training in the area and 3) to improve the efficiency of all participants in obtraining the truth from suspects, witnesses and victims in a legally acceptable manner.

Objectives for the advanced course are 1) to provide additional tactics and techniques designed to obtain confessions from the deceptive suspect in more expedient manner, 2) to provide finesse tactics dealing with the psychology of interrogation to enhance the investigators ability to acquire confessions that might not have otherwise been obtained and 3) to provide a logical guideline that may be used to profile out any type of suspect for interrogation.

More than 300,000 professionals in the law enforcement and security fields have attended these programs since it they were first offered in 1974. Participants come from both the private sector (retailing, finance, health care, manufacturing, etc.) and the public sector, including all levels of law enforcement and government; from every U.S. State and Canadian Province, as well as countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

BASIC TOPICS INCLUDE:

Distinguishing between interview and interrogation
Legal aspects of interview and interrogation
What makes an excellent interviewer
Factors affecting a subject’s behavior
Behavior symptom analysis (see detail below)
Five points to follow when evaluating behavior
Reid Behavioral Analysis Interview™
Baiting techniques
The REID Nine Steps of Interrogation (see detail below)

BEHAVIOR SYMPTOM ANALYSIS

Evaluating Attitudes
Evaluating Nonverbal Behavior
Evaluating Verbal Behavior
Evaluating Paralinguistic Behavior
Reid Behavioral Analysis Interview™
The Baiting Technique
Analyzing Factual Information Prior to the Interview
Asking Behavior Provoking Questions

THE REID NINE STEPS OF INTERROGATION

The Positive Confrontation
Theme Development
Handling Denials
Overcoming Objections
Procuring and Retaining the Suspect's Attention
Handling the Suspect's Passive Mood
Presenting an Alternative Question
Detailing the Offense
Elements of Oral and Written Statements

ADVANCED TOPICS INCLUDE ABOVE TOPICS AS THEY RELATE TO:

Advanced concepts in behavior symptom analysis, behavioral interview and REID approach to interrogation
Difficult suspects that give the interrogator problems and specific tactics to get them to confess
Defiant, neutral and accepting suspects - how to move suspects out of a stage for best end results
Distinguishing elements which identify need, lifestyle, impulse and esteem criminal characteristics
Additional interrogational tactics.

For more information:
Contact Debra Fields
E-mail: dfields@southmetrotraining.com
PH: 952-653-0671