Science-Based Interviewing (Basic)
Feb 02, 2026, 8:00 AM – Feb 03, 2026, 5:00 PM
Brown Center @ Cowley County Community College in the Wright Room
215 S 2nd St, Arkansas City, KS 67005
COST: $495.00
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The science of interview & interrogation, taught by a former homicide and sex crimes detective and investigations commander. Proven information-gathering methods and counter-interview strategies will strengthen and improve your interviews, interrogations, and case outcomes. CLEET. 24-2992
Are you ready to elevate your investigative prowess to new heights? Join us for an exclusive training session designed to equip you with the essential skills and strategies for conducting effective investigative interviews.
Led by a law enforcement officer expert with over 26 years of experience in investigating and leading criminal investigations (homicide, sex crimes, non-fatal shootings, gang crimes) and officer-involved incidents where getting the information right is paramount. This intensive class starts with fundamentals and then goes beyond the basics to provide you with actionable techniques grounded in science-based methodologies. This class will deepen your interview and interrogation expertise, equipping you with techniques to gather higher-quality information (and lots of it!) more effectively.
- Boost interviewer confidence with adaptability
- Strategic use of evidence
- Counter-interrogation strategies
- Red teaming, which challenge assumptions, combat biases, and enhance critical thinking skills.
- Questioning strategies (productive, memory-compatible questions)
- Rapport techniques
- Active & Tactical Listening
- Scenarios to practices new skills
- Field validation studies prove science-based techniques are more effective. More confessions. More information
- No pseudoscience—the stuff that creates false case information that trainers still peddle
- No more rigid "systems"—these outdated methods fall apart interview after interview. After all, interviewer adaptability is key!
Throughout the course, you'll learn how to master the arts of active listening, building rapport with witnesses and suspects, and ask the right questions to elicit a lot of valuable information. You will understand counter-interrogation strategies, memory-compatible questioning, and why pseudo-scientific methods used in other trainings fail. Drawing from real-world scenarios and insights from the FBI's High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) funded research, you'll gain a deep understanding of the psychological principles that underpin successful interviews.
Whether you're a seasoned investigator looking to sharpen your skills or a newcomer eager to learn from the best, this class is for you. Don't miss this opportunity to take your investigative interviewing skills to the next level and make a real impact in your work.
Spaces are limited, so reserve your spot today and become a master of science-based interview and interrogation.
This class has been cataloged by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training for 24 hours of mandatory continuing education credit. Regarding any law enforcement concepts, practices, methods, techniques, products, or devices as might be taught, promoted, or otherwise espoused in outside schools or seminars, there is no intent, expressed or implied, that listing the course in the CLEET Course Catalog indicates or in any way conveys ‘CLEET approval’ of such concepts, practices, methods, techniques, products, or devices, unless such approval is explicitly stated by CLEET. 24-2992
COST: $495.00
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