Police Interview and Interrogation Techniques, DVD

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.

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


Disc Two


Know Where You Are Going: Planning an Interview


Who Controls Wins: Controlling the Interview


Mimes Speaking Loudly: Reading and Interpreting Non-Verbal Gestures


Disc Three


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


Disc Four


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


Yes! They Do Happen: False Confessions


Disc Five


Careful, They Are Fragile: Avoiding False Confessions


Why’d You Tell? Why People Confess


Disc Six


Feather or Sledgehammer and Other Choices: General Tactics


Hitting the Bulls-Eye: The Targeted Subject Interview


Appendix – Reading Material