Roadside Interview Techniques

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Length: 1 Day (8 Hours)

Designed For: This course is designed for uniformed state, local, federal and tribal law enforcement officials who are interested in enhancing their traffic enforcement activities or developing a traffic enforcement program to serve as an effective means to deter and detect in-transit criminals.

Prerequisites: None

Description: This comprehensive advanced course for law enforcement that focuses on the many issues that are encountered during traffic stops/roadside interviews and meet law enforcement needs in extensive specialized training. This course will prepare law enforcement officers to legally and safely interview vehicle occupant(s) and look beyond the initial traffic stop to detect and apprehend all types of criminals/drug traffickers using our highways, streets and rural roads. The course will show the students the importance of establishing rapport, as well as becoming a better listener during traffic stops. Students will be taught specific techniques that detect criminal/drug trafficking activity and how to view every roadside interview in totality. Through the analyzing of actual criminal/drug interdiction traffic stop videos the student will be shown that no single behavior standing alone proves anything during the traffic stop encounter. The method of instruction for this course will involve lecture backed by scientific facts, current real life law enforcement experience, and the implementation of various video clips from actual criminal/drug interdiction traffic stops that are designed to reinforce the teaching points and encourage class discussion.

Objectives Covered:

•Understanding the History and the Art of Interviewing.
•Goals during the interview process.
•What causes symptoms to appear.
•Importance of using non-confrontational greetings.
•Establishing rapport during traffic stops.
•The importance to be able to verbally communicate with the motoring public.
•Explain the importance of active listening.
•Speech dysfunctions associated with deception.
•The importance of clusters during nonverbal behavior.
•Understand nonverbal behaviors that are relatively consistent when stimuli (question/action) are repeated.
•Keys to detecting deception.
•Being familiar and confident with the assessment process of the roadside interview.
•Understand the body’s response to fear.
•The foundation and process of the roadside interview.

Taught by: Alex Gonzalez,  Southeast Training