Interviews, Interrogations, & Street Encounters

Understanding that interrogations take place in many different contexts, this class is designed to provide law enforcement personnel with the tools necessary to legally extract information from a subject regardless of where or why the encounter occurs. With a dual focus on criminal procedure and interrogation techniques, the objective is to prepare the student for the realities of interrogations in both investigative and street police work.

Topics Include
Reframing the Fundamental Objective of Interrogations
Mandatory vs. Strategic use of Miranda
Timing & Content of the Warning
What Constitutes “Custody”
What Constitutes “Interrogation”
Why Rights Waivers are Unnecessary and Undesirable
How to Avoid an Invocation
The Public Safety Exception
Promises of Leniency & Quid Pro Quos in Exchange for Information
Use of Deception, Disinformation, and Minimization to Procure a Statement
Taking a Statement, then Tearing it Down
Game Theory & “The Prisoner’s Dilemma”