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COURSE DESCRIPTION
COURSE TITLE
"Liar, Liar Face on Fire; Detecting Deception in Subjects, Suspects, Victims and Witnesses"
COURSE LENGTH
8 hours
LESSON OVERVIEW
This is an advanced class. This course is intended for sworn law enforcement officers and non-sworn law enforcement investigators or inspectors who conduct interviews. The class is also appropriate for prosecuting attorneys and judges and can be customized for specific audiences. The course is designed to improve an interviewer's skill at the art of reading body language, interpreting verbal and non-verbal cues and perceiving deception by studying the facial expressions and eye movements of the interviewee. At the conclusion of the course the class participant will be able to apply learned skills to gain valuable testimony and important evidence, to produce more confessions and higher conviction rates, to improve employee screening and most importantly to increase officer safety.
STUDENT MATERIALS (ALL COURSE MATERIALS PROVIDED)
" Student Guides on DVD or Thumb Drive
" Student Workbook
" VAK Learning Styles Self-Assessment Questionnaire
" Eye Accessing Quiz
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
" Anatomy of a Lie
" The Psychology of Lying
" If Their Lips are Moving
" Leakage
" Eye Accessing
" Fight or Flight
" Officer Safety
" Practical Exercises
COURSE OBJECTIVES
" Identify techniques to maximize officer safety
" Design strategies to set up a controlled environment
" Determine interviewing and interrogation practices that produce desired results
" Assess common interviewing mistakes
" Classify different learning styles and their application to rapport building
" Discuss the psychology of lying
" Develop a basic understanding of non-verbal cues
" Study physiological responses to stress
" Discover physiological indicators of deception
" Recognize Fight or Flight behavior indicators
" Analyze facial expression and eye position
" Evaluate body language by studying images and videos
" List the components of statement analysis
" Describe methods used to detect deception in written statements
" Practice questioning and interview techniques
" Discover pitfalls and best practices
" Illustrate how to conclude an interview
" Practice establishing rapport with subjects, suspects, victims and witnesses through role playing scenarios