Upon completion of the training course, the student will understand the principles of Analytic Interviewing and be able to:

• Better establish and maintain rapport with others
• Better understand and read another person's non-verbal communication and identify masked signs of emotion
• Recognize signs of deception
• Best obtain an accurate recall of events from witnesses and victims
• Learn how to better formulate questions and when to ask them
• Most importantly, learn more about themselves

This course focuses on detecting deception in suspects and others by observing both verbal and physical behavior traits. The mastering of this skill provides each investigator with the expertise to be his or her own “Lie Detector”. These techniques were brought together to satisfy the somewhat unique requirements of law enforcement and the intelligence communities. Analytic Interviewing is a combination of techniques, brought together as a system, used to motivate individuals to tell the truth.

The students also learn techniques for relating and communicating with others more effective. The course provides various techniques that have proven reliable for use in situations encountered by law enforcement officers, regulatory inspectors, and intelligence agents.

There are all sorts of interviews — prospective employees, prospective licensees, background investigations, covert intelligence probes, undercover inquiries, fraud, etc. These all have one thing in common. The purpose of the interview is to obtain information-specific information. Whether formal or informal, information is being elicited from an individual. If you don't obtain the information, you cannot use it in your investigation.

This course is divided into two basic types of interviews: witness and suspect. The witness interview focuses on the Cognitive approach. In addition, a method of enhancing memory called Framing, developed by the founders of this course, is also utilized. It draws upon the experience and expertise of Professor Ron Fisher, CoFounder of the Cognitive approach to interviewing.

The art or process of elicitation is experienced in this course. The word “experienced” is used because that is what the student called upon to do/experience through hands-on training. Through this method of learning, each individual student is asked to subject himself to sensitive personal issues and to experience the feelings like those of any person being interviewed or interrogated.

Through this experience, students gain insight into the behavioral responses of others and learn to read the symptoms they project. None of this is done to embarrass or offend any individual, but to enhance awareness.

To successfully learn to become a better interviewer, each student must participate in the training. The manual is designed to assist individuals in practicing what they have experienced and learned.