Investigative Interview Techniques for Internal Affairs Officers

This comprehensive 24-hour course equips internal affairs officers and investigators with essential skills for conducting effective interviews with complainants, witnesses, and law enforcement personnel. The training focuses on enhancing your ability to identify truthfulness and detect deception during investigative interviews.

Participants will learn the investigative qualities necessary for becoming a skilled interviewer, exploring the fundamentals of human communication and how to leverage these principles to build rapport and extract information from interviewees. The curriculum includes instruction on cognitive interview techniques designed to maximize the amount of usable information obtained from witness interviews.

Topics Covered

• Garrity rights and their application in the interview process
• Personal listening profile assessment
• Interview preparation and execution strategies
• Questioning techniques through practical scenarios
• Verbal communication processes
• Various interviewing methods
• Cognitive interview techniques
• Body language interpretation and behavioral analysis

Intended Audience

This course is designed for sworn and non-sworn law enforcement personnel, including officers in administrative and internal affairs investigations, professional compliance unit staff, law enforcement and public safety administrators, and human resource and city/county managers involved in investigations and background screening processes. Enrollment is restricted to law enforcement personnel and those directly employed by governmental agencies.

Course Details

Duration: 24 hours
Class Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Fee: $695.00

Upcoming Sessions

Session 1: January 25-27, 2027
Sarasota Police Department, 3rd Floor Training Room
2099 Adams Lane, Sarasota, FL 34237
Instructor: Karan Sharma

Session 2: May 24-26, 2027
Altamonte Springs Police Department, Training Room
225 Newburyport Avenue, Altamonte Springs, FL 32701
Instructor: Karan Sharma