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5-day Investigator Interview and Interrogation Course

This course is designed for the Veteran Officer or Detective/Investigator with the responsibility of investigating a criminal caseload.

  • Predictable Human Behavior
  • Proxemics
  • Gestures
  • The Psychology of Deception
  • Polygraph and Computerized Voice Stress Analyzer
  • Interviews: Free Format, Elimination, and Cognitive
  • Criminal Interrogations
  • Legal Issues
  • Preparing Your Case For Court
  • Suggested Themes
  • Transitional Stories
  • Use of Subterfuge
  • Video Taped Interrogations/Confessions

3-day Advanced Interview and Interrogation Course

This course is designed for the Veteran Officer or Detective/Investigator who has completed OUR 5-day course and wants additional information that will allow better results during the most difficult of investigations.

  • Preventing False Confessions
  • Cold Case Interrogations
  • Identifying & Interrogating Psychopaths
  • Handling Emotional Behavior
  • Interviewing the Serial Suspect
  • Handling Reports of False Allegations
  • Pretext Phone Calls
  • How to Survive Cross Examination
  • Recording Interrogations

3-day Basic Interview and Interrogation Course

This course is designed for the Patrol Officer who may do some or all of their own investigations.

  • Predictable Human Behavior
  • Proxemics for the street, squad car, home, office
  • Gestures
  • The Psychology of Deception
  • Polygraph and Computerized Voice Stress Analyzer
  • Interviews: Free format and Elimination
  • Criminal Interrogations
  • Legal Issues
  • Preparing Your Case For Court
  • Suggested Themes
  • Transitional Stories
  • Video Taped Interrogations/Confessions

2-day Supplemental Interview and Interrogation Course

This course is designed for those Officers who have previously attended OUR 3-day Interview & Interrogation course and have now have promoted and/or have full investigative responsibility.

  • Review of the 10-Step Plan
  • Legal Updates
  • Polygraph and Computerized Voice Stress Analyzer
  • Handling Psychopaths
  • Emotional Behavior and Buttons
  • Use of Subterfuge
  • Video Taped Interrogations/Confessions

2-day Welfare Fraud Interview and Interrogation Course

This course is designed for those tasked with the investigation of welfare fraud.

  • Neutral Professional Fact Gathering
  • Gestures
  • Free-Format and Elimination Interviews
  • Legal Issues
  • Surviving the Challenge of a Court Hearing
  • Video Taped Interrogations/Confessions

2-day Welfare Fraud Interview and Interrogation w/Tactical Communication

  • Predictable Human Behavior
  • Gestures and Proxemics
  • The Psychology of Deception
  • Free-Format and Elimination Interviews
  • Recognizing Angry and Hostile Behavior
  • Officer Safety Isues
  • Behavior Management Strategies
  • The Cycle of Conflict
  • Communication Enhancement

2-day Basic Recruit Interview and Interrogation Course

This course is designed for instruction in the Basic Recruit Academy to have recruits learn interview techniques for basic street investigations and prepare them for POST practical scenarios.

  • Neutral Professional Fact Gathering
  • Proxemics
  • Gestures
  • Free-Format and Elimination Interviews
  • Video Taped Interrogations/Confessions

2-day Victim Contact Course

This course is designed for those persons who have occupations that regularly bring them in contact with victims of violent crime.

  • Defining Victim Precipitation
  • Demeanor Issues
  • Making Death Notifications
  • Victimization Issues
  • Victim’s Views of the Criminal Justice System
  • Overcoming Personal and Professional Conflicts

1-day Interview and Interrogation Course for the Background Investigator

This course is designed for those persons who conduct background investigations on NON-Sworn employees.

  • Legal Issues
  • Neutral Professional Fact Gathering
  • Gestures
  • Discrepancy Interviews

1-day Interview and Interrogation Course for the Basic Recruit

This course is designed for instruction in the Basic Recruit Academy to have recruits learn interview techniques for basic street investigations and prepare them for POST practical scenarios.

  • Neutral Professional Fact Gathering
  • Proxemics
  • Gestures
  • Free-Format and Elimination Interviews

1-day Interview and Interrogation Course for the Patrol Contacts

This course is designed for the Patrol Officer who wants to increase their ability to obtain information from victims and witnesses in a quick and efficient method.

  • Neutral Professional Fact Gathering
  • Victim Issues
  • Proxemics
  • Gestures
  • Free-Format

1 –day Interview and Interrogation Course for the Corrections Officer / Investigator

This course is designed for Investigators within correctional institutions

  • Neutral Professional Fact Gathering
  • Predictable Human Behavior
  • Proxemics Inside the Institution
  • Gestures
  • Interviews: Free format and Elimination
  • Suggested Themes

1-day Interview and Interrogation Course for the School Resource Officer & Administrator

This course is designed for the School Resource Officer, Principal, Vice-Principal, Dean tasked with gathering facts for disciplinary action against students.

  • Neutral Professional Fact Gathering
  • Predictable Human Behavior
  • Proxemics in Their  Business / Office
  • Gestures
  • Interviews: Free format and Elimination
  • Suggested Themes

1-day Interview and Interrogation Course for the State Hospital Officer

This course is designed for Staff at state hospitals who conduct investigations into misconduct at the facility.

  • Neutral Professional Fact Gathering
  • Predictable Human Behavior
  • Proxemics in Their  Business / Office
  • Gestures
  • Interviews: Free format and Elimination
  • Suggested Themes

1-day Courtroom Demeanor & Testifying

This course is designed for the regulatory investigator or school official who may be called to testify in court.

  • Case Preparation
  • Demeanor and Appearance
  • Verbal Testimony
  • Communication
  • Prosecution Strategies
  • Defense Strategies
  • Mock Trial Including Direct and Cross Examination

1-day Dealing with Abusive / Hostile People

This course is designed for any regulatory person who must deal with dissatisfied "customers"

  • Recognizing Angry & Hostile Behavior
  • Safety Issues
  • Behavior Management Strategies
  • The Cycle of Conflict
  • Communication Enhancement

1-day Pretext Phone Calls (Also offered in a Four-hour presentation below)

This course is designed for those officers who use pretext phone calls as an investigative tool.

  • Legal Issues
  • Case Evaluation
  • Equipment Recommendations
  • Rehearsing and Making the Call
  • When Calls go Bad
  • Using the recording during the Interrogation

1-day Dealing with Psychopaths

This course is designed for those investigators who have already attended OUR I & I course and want additional information on dealing with these difficult suspects.

  • What They Are
  • How to Identify Them
  • Eliminating the Psycho-Babble
  • The Psychopathy Checklist-L.E.O.
  • Interrogation Strategies
  • Case Studies

4-Hour Course Dealing with False Reports of Victimization

This course is designed for the investigator who will encounter people who falsely report being victimized.

  • What False Reporting is
  • Why they Occur
  • Identifying False Reports
  • Investigation Strategies
  • Interrogation Strategies

4-Hour Preventing False Admissions

This course is designed for those investigators who have already attended OUR interview and interrogation course and want additional information on preventing false admissions and confessions.

  • False Admissions
  • Legal Issues
  • How to Prevent Them
  • Bullet Proofing Your Confessions
  • Case Studies

4-Hour Pretext Phone Calls

This course is designed for use as a “breakout” presentation for those officers who use pretext phone calls as an investigative tool.

  • Legal Issues
  • Case Evaluation
  • Equipment Recommendations
  • Rehearsing and Making the Call
  • Using the recording during the Interrogation

4-Hour Interview and Interrogation - Conference Breakout

This course is designed for instruction at professional conferences.

  • Neutral Professional Fact Gathering
  • Proxemics
  • Free-Format and Elimination Interviews

4-Hour Pepper-Ball Training Course

This course is designed for officers who may use a Pepper-Ball gun in their duty assignments.

  • Policy review(s)
  • The Pepper-all System
  • Tactical Considerations
  • Targeting
  • Suicide by Cop
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Marking Rounds
  • Prisons and Jails
  • Animal Control