Description

The Reid P.E.A.C.E. Method of Investigative Interviewing merges core Reid tenets of rapport-centric evidence-based questioning with protocols established by the United Kingdom’s “College of Policing” on Authorized Professional Practices for law enforcement.

For over seven decades, John E. Reid & Associates, Inc., has advanced the art of investigative interviewing through reliance upon a non-coercive approach combined with persuasive argumentation to establish facts, assess interviewee credibility, and obtain admissions against interest that are both voluntary as well as reliable. The Reid P.E.A.C.E. Method narrows the interviewing scope to evidence-based inquires as the sole means of eliciting truthful disclosures from suspects, witnesses, and victims of unlawful behavior.

This program’s singular focus upon evidence-based questioning is a natural outgrowth of the origins of the Reid Technique. Its developers, John E. Reid and Fred E. Inbau, were both attorneys who were well trained in direct and cross examination. Those tools have always been embedded within the Reid Technique along with a firm commitment toward respecting the legal rights and human dignity of the accused. This program builds upon that unique Reid/Inbau legacy of integrating into the investigative interviewing process those same constitutional safeguards and courtroom skills through its current instructor who, in addition to having spent decades in the interrogation room, is an experienced attorney.

It should be understood, however, that course participants in the Reid P.E.A.C.E. Method of Investigative Interviewing will not receive instruction in the “Reid Nine Steps of Interrogation” or the “Reid Behavior Analysis Interview”. Those elements remain fully available within traditional Reid Interview and Interrogation training programs.