Training Courses

Mastering Investigative Interviews: Essential Skills for Investigators and First Responders

Date & Time:
  • January 19, 2027 – January 21, 2027
Location:
Mobile, AL
Agency:
Legal and Liability Risk Management Institute

Instructor: Stan Walters

Course Details:

  • Location: Mobile, AL (Mobile County, ZIP 36688)
  • Dates: January 19-21, 2027
  • Duration: 20 hours
  • Cost: $349.99
  • Category: Investigations, Interviews

Course Overview:

Many investigators unknowingly rely on flawed techniques that compromise their work. Conventional approaches, unfounded presuppositions, ineffective questioning strategies, and hasty conclusions regarding deception indicators can corrupt witness statements, limit information retrieval, damage relationships with victims and witnesses, and jeopardize investigation integrity.

This comprehensive training equips investigators with evidence-based, practical approaches to gather more accurate, complete, and legally defensible information. Participants will master techniques for conducting narrative-driven interviews that allow subjects to share complete accounts without interviewer bias influencing the outcome.

Key Learning Objectives:

Attendees will develop competency in:

  • Structuring narrative-based interviews to elicit fuller, uncontaminated accounts
  • Obtaining supplementary details through refined follow-up questioning
  • Identifying contamination introduced by interviewer conduct
  • Assessing statement credibility independent of unreliable deception indicators
  • Avoiding techniques that produce false or questionable confessions
  • Recognizing common behavioral response patterns
  • Distinguishing legitimate persuasion techniques from unethical manipulation and coercion

Expected Outcomes:

Upon completion, investigators will conduct interviews that yield superior information quality, increase statement reliability, enable more sound investigative conclusions, and withstand judicial review and courtroom examination.