Police Interview and Interrogation Techniques, DVD

Designed for visually oriented learners, this DVD is an illustrative record of many of the techniques, tactics, and strategies utilized during police interviews and interrogations. The videos presented provide officers with concrete images of the best way to conduct these procedures, enabling them to visualize themselves speaking with individuals in a similar manner. Police officers familiar with common interview scenarios play the roles of victims, witnesses, and subjects, ensuring a realistic and practical learning experience. The DVD is an ideal complement to the author's book Behavior, Truth, and Deception.

Disc One

Welcome

Our Critics: Dim View of Police Interviewing and Interrogating

Hey, I Want an Attorney: Legal Suggestions

The Natural: Interviewer’s Positive Traits

The Less Fortunate: Interviewer’s Building Blocks for Improvement

Home of Interviewing: The Interview Setting

If Only I Had a Dollar: Analyzing Oral Statements

Know Where You Are Going: Planning an Interview

Who Controls Wins: Controlling the Interview

Mimes Speaking Loudly: Reading and Interpreting Non-Verbal Gestures

One From Column A, etc.: Question Choices for Interviewing Victims, Witnesses and Suspects

Question Answered or Avoided? Subject Answering Pattern

The Spin Starts Here: Themes and RPM’s

It’s Not Personal: Engineering a Confrontation

One-Sided Conversation to One-Sided Challenge: Interviewing and Interrogating

Yes! They Do Happen: False Confessions

Careful, They Are Fragile: Avoiding False Confessions

Why’d You Tell? Why People Confess

Feather or Sledgehammer and Other Choices: General Tactics

Hitting the Bulls-Eye: The Targeted Subject Interview

Appendix – Reading Material

Michael R. Napier is a former FBI (27 years) Supervisory Special Agent, field office program manager and violent crime assessor in the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, where he investigated complex bribery, price-fixing, organized crime, violent crime, labor racketeering, Medicare and medical fraud, and white collar crime cases. He also supervised undercover operations. He is an FBI-qualified Polygraph Examiner and has extensively studied interview and interrogation strategies and tactics and the methodology to deny successful challenges to confessions. He specializes in applying behavioral analysis to violent crimes to assess the potential for preventing violence or deterring specific criminals in individual settings. Those techniques include determining foresee-ability of an individual committing a violent act. He is a nationally-recognized presenter on various topics concerning violent crime assessment, violent offender motivation, interview and interrogation strategies and crisis management subjects. Mr. Napier holds Adjunct Faculty positions at the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and Wichita State University.