Roadside Interviewing
In this workshop, you will enhance your skills in conducting effective roadside interviews during traffic stops. The workshop emphasizes situational awareness, communication techniques, and the ability to detect deceptive behavior. You will learn how to maintain control of interactions while avoiding confrontations.
In-Depth Questioning
Rapport building, guided conversations, and elicitation techniques get you into the casual conversation, interview, or interrogation without appearing to be conducting an interrogation. Once you have established a level of rapport and willing discussion, you must ultimately dive into the interrogatives (who, what, where, why, when, and how). This workshop uses the Socratic method of questioning to get answers to the interrogatives. The overall purpose of Socratic questioning is to challenge accuracy and completeness.
Interviewing Juveniles
According to an International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) article, “[T]he juvenile interview and interrogation landscape has undergone an unprecedented upheaval in the last decade as numerous studies have demonstrated that juveniles are particularly likely to give false information – and even falsely confess – when questioned by law enforcement. Based on this research, court decisions, all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, are leading police to question juveniles differently than adults.” In this workshop, you will learn how to get to the truth when interviewing juveniles.
Interviewing People with Mental Challenges
This workshop focuses on empathy, active listening, and respectful communication, participants will learn to navigate the complexities of interviewing diverse populations, including those with cognitive, emotional, and developmental disabilities.
Basic Interviewing Skills
Interviewing is a process that requires practice. You, as the interviewer, must know what you are trying to accomplish. You need to be aware of all your senses and must be able to induce a reaction.
Achieving Instant Rapport
Rapport is a “trusting” relationship between people. You need a trusting relationship to get to the truth and to help de-escalate tense situations. The problem is that most people, including victims and witnesses, don’t automatically trust the criminal justice professional. To get to the truth and help you de-escalate tense situations, you must master instant rapport building skills. This workshop focuses on knowing yourself and your surroundings well enough that you can connect with anyone instantly. Once you know yourself, you need to develop people skills that put you in charge while making others feel they can trust you enough to give you truthful information. Good people skills will also help you reduce the need for use of force
Coaching, Counseling, & Discipline
Apply motivational principles, coaching and counseling techniques, and appropriate methods of discipline to improve and maintain professionalism in your organization and dignity of your officers.
Roadside Interviewing
Improve situational awareness, communication techniques, and the ability to detect deceptive behavior during traffic stops. Maintain control while avoiding confrontation. Discover ongoing crimes during traffic stops.
Asking Questions without Asking Questions
Learn to use interpersonal skills, guided conversation, and elicitation techniques to get to the truth. Generate answers to key questions without asking direct, interrogation-like questions. These techniques are great for interviewing victims and witnesses and victims, but are designed to get the evasive person to tell the truth. These techniques are commonly used by the CIA and other undercover intelligence officers.
Testifying for Convictions
$199. For officers, investigators and supervisors.
Location: Central Arizona College, 8470 N. Overfield Rd. Coolidge, AZ 85128
Register here: www.bit.ly/caclepd
Officers and investigators can be called to testify in various types of hearings and trials to include preliminary hearings, grand juries, suppression hearings, probable cause hearings, criminal trials, traffic court, and even civil lawsuit trials. Your testimony can make or break a case for the prosecutor. In this workshop, you will learn how to be best prepared to deliver impactful testimonies.
Writing for Convictions
$199. For officers, investigators and supervisors.
Location: Central Arizona College, 8470 N. Overfield Rd. Coolidge, AZ 85128
Register here: www.bit.ly/caclepd
Writing matters! Words matter. Even though some of your reports won’t make it to a trial, every report will lead to a decision about your arrests, treatment of arrestees, and ultimately confessions and/or convictions. This workshop is different than many other writing workshops in that we focus on storytelling and the support that can be used in court, rather than just fulfilling your agency’s requirement to document an incident.
Intermediate Criminal Investigations
$199. For investigators and supervisors.
Location: Central Arizona College, 8470 N. Overfield Rd. Coolidge, AZ 85128
Register here: www.bit.ly/caclepd
You know the intricacies of investigation. However, even the most experienced investigators can paint themselves into a corner. In this workshop, you should gain the ability to see crimes from different perspectives, thus avoiding confirmation bias or blindsiding the prosecutor.
Frontline Supervision
$199. For supervisors.
Location: Central Arizona College, 8470 N. Overfield Rd. Coolidge, AZ 85128
Register here: www.bit.ly/caclepd
Many departments have a very young workforce, requiring them to promote relatively inexperienced young officers to supervisory positions. This workshop is designed to help young supervisors gain the knowledge and skills they need to lead and manage in a way that invites willing compliance and teamwork.