SYNOPSIS

This course is designed for law enforcement officers and military personnel directly involved in counter-narcotic missions with an emphasis on civilian law enforcement to include local, state, and federal officers.

OBJECTIVE

Officers should recognize the importance of developing baseline behavior when conducting interviews. If the officer doesn’t know how the person behaves or responds when telling the truth, it will be difficult to detect deception. Detailed information will be presented on proper ways to establish baseline behavior. Officers will also learn how to identify deception in written statements based on the individual’s lack of self-reference, use of verb tense, and their use of equivocation.

Officers will learn how to recognize and understand various verbal and non-verbal cues of deception reliably. The instructor will illustrate various verbal and non-verbal indicators of deception using video-recorded interviews of actual witnesses and suspects. Practical scenarios will also be used to reinforce the lecture.

COURSE FLYER

INSTRUCTOR

Instruction provided by Western Regional Counterdrug Training Center

REGISTRATION

This course is free. Registration instructions can be found on the course flyer.