Interviews & Interrogations
The academy teaches you to ask questions. This course teaches you to get answers — through empathy, rapport, and knowing exactly what to say next.
Most interrogations fail before they begin.
Officers rush in with the wrong approach, ask the wrong questions, and close doors they didn't know they were opening.
Rich Rodriguez spent 24 years conducting interviews and interrogations in violent crimes, homicide, and sexual assault investigations. In every single case he worked, he utilized this process. No pressure. No tricks. But by rapport and empathy.
This course is built on what actually works.
What this course covers:
— The difference between an interview and an interrogation — and why confusing them costs cases
— Why most officers fail at this stage of an investigation
— Rapport: the closest thing interrogators have to a truth serum
— The TAC Framework: Talk, Admit, Confess
— Miranda — how Rich does it differently, and why it works
— The RPM Formula: Rationalize, Project, Minimize
— Verbal and non-verbal indicators of deception
— How to confront a lie without losing the rapport you've built
— What to do when a subject won't respond
Format:
One full day. Presentation, group discussion, and live role-play exercises.
Audience:
Law enforcement officers and investigators at any experience level.
“There are many reasons why someone is sitting across from us during an interview. It’s our job to show we care enough to find out that reason. Without caring, you will not get the answers you seek. ”
Officers leave with a framework they can apply the next morning — not theory, not a manual, but a real approach built from 24 years of closed cases.
Every unsolved case is someone who didn't get justice. Better interview skills can change that.
Let us help your investigators close more cases.
Tell us a little about your department, and we'll take it from there.