Cognitive Interview & Forensic Statement Analysis - Santa Clara County SO at Morgan Hill - Sept. 15 - 19, 2025

This is open to Sworn and Non Sworn Investigators.

Topics Include:

• The Difficulties of Eyewitness Recall
• How Memory Works
• Principles of Cognition
• Guided Information Retrieval (Core Principal)
• V/W Memory Enhancement
• Communication Enhancement
• Techniques for inducing V/W's to provide more information
• The Worst Interviewing Mistakes
• Should the interviewer believe the person?
• Is the writer/speaker more involved in the offense than what s/he has said?
• Is there any relational difficulty evident between the writer/speaker and the other people mentioned in the statement?
• What might be these difficulties be?
• When might those difficulties have begun?
• Did those difficulties contribute to the offense in any way? How? Why?
• Was the writer/speaker actually doing what s/he said at the time of offense?
• Should we consider the writer/speaker a suspect?

Tuition: $575.00 / 5 - day class

POST Control No: 9590 - 31455 - 25001