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July - August 2017 Investigator Tip Cognitive Interviewing
Jul 03, 2017
Cognitive interviewing is a memory retrieval procedure designed to enhance recall when interviewing a victim or witness. Unlike hypnosis, which involves placing the subject in an altered state of consciousness, cognitive interviewing...
January/February 2017 Investigator Tip: Ten
Jan 01, 2017
Physical coercion, torture, duress, denial of rights, threats, and promises of leniency are the poison pills of legally admissible, reliable, and voluntary confessions. Obviously we should not engage in such behaviors or...
September/October 2016 Investigator Tip: When Co-Offenders Are Being Interrogated Consider ìPlaying One Against the Otherî
Sep 08, 2016
"When two or more persons have collaborated in the commission of a criminal offense and are later apprehended for questioning, there is usually a nagging fear on the part of each participant...
Dr. Thomas Grisso's Understanding and Appreciating Miranda Rights
Jun 01, 2016
In Middleton v. State (Jan 2016) Dr. James Barnard testified for the defense. He prepared two reports, one was a psychological evaluation and the other examined Middleton's competency to waive his Miranda...
"I Did It" - Confession Contamination and Evaluation
May 24, 2016
Police Chief magazine published a “web-only article” earlier this month entitled, “I Did It” - Confession Contamination and Evaluation. In the article the author, James Trainum, highlights a false confession case and...
TASER Exposure and Cognitive Impairment: Implications for Valid Miranda Waivers and the Timing of Police Custodial Interrogations
Mar 27, 2016
In the above referenced article the authors suggest that an individual who has experienced TASER exposure will experience reduced cognitive functioning. As a result the authors question the abilities of an "average"...
International Association of Chiefs of Police publish guide for the questioning of Juveniles
Jan 16, 2016
The IACP has published a document entitled, Reducing Risks: An Executive's Guide to Effective Juvenile Interview and Interrogation. Among their recommendations, the authors point out the importance of making sure that young...
The Inside Information Checklist
Oct 22, 2015
In the August 2015 issue of The Police Chief magazine (published by the International Association of Chiefs of Police) Dr. Gregory DeClue has written an article entitled "The Inside Information Checklist." In...
Review of Reid 90 minute online training program
Oct 15, 2015
ASIS International published a review of our 90 minute online training program, "The Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation for Investigators - Parts 1-7" in the August 2015 issue of Security Management...
Why 'Tell me why you did it' is a failed technique
Feb 10, 2015
Lou Senese, Reid VOP, just published a brief article in PoliceOne.com entitled ìWhy ëTell me why you did ití is a filed technique.
Can a subject's silence be used in trial as an indication of his guilt?
Feb 10, 2015
Earlier this year an article entitled, Silence Is No Longer Golden: How Lawyers Now Advise Suspects in Light of Salinas v. Texas, was published in The Champion (a publication from the National...
Courts affirm interrogation techniques that are often mischaracterized by false confession experts
Feb 10, 2015
Courts affirm interrogation techniques that are often mischaracterized by false confession experts
In our Legal Updates Summer 2014 we have several cases that we wanted to highlight for our audience that...
Compendium: Electronic Recording of Custodial Interrogations
Feb 10, 2015
On their website the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has published an extensive compendium of the laws and court decisions regarding the electronic recording of custodial interrogations. Here is the article:
Charles Piper, CRT new article: Needles in a paystack: Physician submits $500,000 in false claims
Feb 10, 2015
Mr. Charles Piper, Certified in the Reid Technique, has published an article in Fraud magazine entitled, Needles in a paystack: Physician submits $500,000 in false claims. Here is a link to the...
From Law and Order magazine: The Reid Technique Webinar - The Reid Technique Delivered Right to Your Training Room
Jul 15, 2014
In the June 2014 issue of Law and Order magazine the editorial staff profiles the new online training program developed by John E. Reid and Associates for investigators. As the article states...
US Attorney General issues policy memo regarding recording interrogations
Jun 17, 2014
In a Memorandum regarding "Policy Concerning Electronic Recording of Statements" dated May 12, 214 the US Department of Justice, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, stated the following:
"This policy establishes...
HumInt Collection: A look through noncoercive field questioning and screening of jihadist combatants
Jun 17, 2014
Two of our senior instructors, William Schrieber and Philip Mullenix, co-authored a new article just published in the Marine Corps Gazette entitled, HumInt Collection: A look through noncoercive field questioning and screening...
Investigators did not follow suggested guidelines when interrogating mentally deficient individual as detailed in Reid training manual and text, Criminal Interrogation and Confessions
May 19, 2014
In US v. Preston (May 2014) the US Court of Appeals the court stated, "Today we consider the voluntariness of a confession given by Tymond Preston, an intellectually disabled eighteen-year-old. To elicit...
An Updated Second Edition of the Best-selling Resource on the Reid Techniquemof Interviewing and Interrogation now available
Sep 29, 2013
Practiced worldwide, the Reid Technique is the leading approach to interview and interrogation practices. Since 1962, hundreds of thousands of investigators have received training in the Reid Technique through Criminal Interrogation and...
New Article In Police Chief Magazine
Jan 08, 2013
Police Chief magazine article entitled, "Garrity Warnings: To Give or Not to Give, That Is the Question"