Interview and Interrogation Technique

• Psychology of Communication: Semantic, physical, and psychological barriers in the interview process.

• Tactical Empathy and Rapport: Mirroring and validation techniques to reduce interviewee resistance.

• Proxemics and Environment: Physical space design (chair arrangement, lighting, removing obstacles) to maximize control.

• Personality Profiling: Identifying types of interviewees (cooperative, hostile, reticent) and adapting the approach.

Focused on obtaining precise data while avoiding suggestibility.

• The Mechanics of Human Memory: Phases of information encoding, storage, and retrieval.

• Testimonial Vulnerabilities: False memories, confabulation, and the post-event information effect.

• Cognitive Interviewing: Application of the four classic techniques (context reinstatement, reporting everything, changing perspective, and reverse order).

• Detecting Suggestibility: How to avoid leading questions that contaminate evidence.

Based on the scientific analysis of human behavior under the stress of lying.

• Facial Microexpressions: Study of the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to identify leaked emotions.

• Non-Verbal Language Analysis: Kinesics (adapter vs. illustrator gestures) and Paralinguistics (tone, volume, and response latency).

• Cognitive Load: Techniques to mentally overload the liar and trigger breakthroughs or cracks in their narrative.

• Bionomics and Physiology: Involuntary autonomic responses (sweating, swallowing, pupillary reflexes) as warnings or Red Flags.

Structured methodologies to transition from an informational interview to a confrontational interrogation.

• The PEACE Model: Planning and Preparation, Engage and Explain, Account, Closure, and Evaluation (The ethical international standard).

• The REID Technique: The 9 steps of interrogation, from positive confrontation to written confession.

• Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN): Identifying deception through the structure of written or spoken language.

• Handling Objections: Strategies to neutralize the suspect's denials and justifications.

Concluding the process while ensuring legal validity and institutional learning.

• Closure and Persuasion Techniques: Using rationalization and minimization (guilt projection) to facilitate the admission of facts.

• Legal Documentation: Drafting interview records and transcribing statements according to compliance standards.

• Ethics and Human Rights: Legal boundaries, prevention of coercion, and the admissibility of evidence in court.

• Debriefing and Self-Evaluation: Post-interrogative analysis to strengthen the organization's internal controls.