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