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The following books were written by
state or local law enforcement officials on the subject of conducting interviews and interrogations during criminal investigations.
Lieutenant
Albert Joseph, Rochester Police Department (retired), has over 32 years of law enforcement experience. During his career he
worked a variety of assignments including the tactical unit, narcotics unit, detective bureau and homicide unit.
Lieutenant Albert Joseph is a certified instructor in several states and has taught interview and interrogation for
over 30 years. He is the author of We Get Confessions. According
to the book description, We Get Confessions uses “actual cases to explain these proven techniques,
Lt. Joseph shares his vast experience and insight on the following: Legal issues - Including a full chapter
on the Miranda Decision. There are many crooks walking the streets that should be in jail because the Miranda Decision is
misunderstood by many people in the Criminal Justice System; Preparing for Court - How to conduct lengthy interrogations and
be prepared to answer any and all questions during Court proceedings; and, Truth and Deception - How to detect if a person
is lying to you during any type interview. According to one reader, “I am a police officer in
northern Ohio. I was always frustrated doing interviews, I knew I had the right guy, but just didn't know how to get them
to tell me they did it. Till I read this book. This book helped me ten-fold with my interviews. This book will not make you
an expert interviewer over night. Only time and experience doing interviews will do that. But this book steered me in the
right direction. After reading this book my interview technique got a lot better and I started getting a lot more confessions.
The author tells it in plain English and it's easy to understand. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to
be a better interviewer.”
Warren
D. Holmes was a member of the Miami, Florida Police Department from 1951 to 1963. He was assigned to the Lie Detection Bureau
from 1955 to 1963 and then left the police department at the rank of Detective Sergeant to open a private polygraph testing
firm. Warren Holmes is the past president of Florida Polygraph Association and the Academy for Scientific Interrogation (the
predecessor name of the American Polygraph Association). Warren Holmes has lectured about criminal interrogation in many organizations
including the FBI, CIA, The Secret Service, Canadian Police College and the Singapore Police Department. Warren
Holmes has conducted polygraph examinations in many nationally known cases such as the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy, the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Watergate. Warren Holmes is the author of Criminal
Interrogation: A Modern Format for Interrogating Criminal Suspects Based on the Intellectual Approach. According
to the book description of Criminal Interrogation: A Modern Format for Interrogating Criminal Suspects Based on
the Intellectual Approach, Warren “Holmes is well qualified to write a book on the
subject of criminal interrogation and has lectured about it in many organizations including the FBI, CIA, the Secret Service,
the Canadian Police College, and the Singapore Police Department. He has also conducted polygraph examinations in such nationally
known cases as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Watergate. Drawing
on current knowledge and his own extensive experience, the author provides a thorough overview of the techniques and procedures
of interrogation. The main purpose of this book is that it will give you the tools to combat the criminal suspect and to attain
the most satisfying outcome of criminal investigation: obtaining a confession through astute interrogation. Ideally, to learn
how to interrogate, one should be exposed to talented interrogators in action. Any book about criminal interrogation can never
be a complete substitute for the daily or weekly experience of interrogating criminal suspects. Recognizing this fact, it
is the author’s plan to write a "how-to" book that provides a framework for enhancing one’s personal
experience. It will help guide the interrogator through the inherent difficulty that is manifested by the margin of error
in perceiving guilt or innocence as well as in the length of time it takes an average person to become sufficiently experienced
to reach an acceptable degree of proficiency. The scope of this book includes a step-by-step procedure for interrogation from
the moment the suspect enters the interrogation room to the time he leaves. It will also help interrogators to keep from running
out of things to say to a suspect by providing suggested interrogational arguments for specific crimes. Sex crimes, murder
cases, espionage cases, and miscellaneous crimes are explored with various suggested arguments to be employed while handling
these different types of cases. The three types of closure, the handling of the confession, and the formal confession as court
evidence are discussed in detail, which also includes the interrogation of the accomplice and the potential witness. By reading
this book, you will learn how to obtain confessions not by asking the suspect questions, but by convincing a suspect to confess
by using persuasive interrogational arguments.”
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