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Is “TEDS PIE” On Your Menu For Cognitive Interviewing?

As an OIS investigator, you may find a serving of TEDS PIE to be helpful when you’re taking statements about a shooting from involved officers and witnesses. That acronym is offered as a questioning tool by Dr. Edward Geiselman, co-developer of the cognitive interviewing technique and a faculty member for the Force Science Certification Course....
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Innovative OIS Protocol Blends Interview And Walk-Through

When and how to interview an involved officer after a shooting and when and how to conduct a walk-through of the incident are sources of controversy among OIS investigators. But by advocating that the two events be combined into a single occurrence, a graduate of the Force Science Certification Course has brought a new protocol...
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Detecting Deception Via Cognitive Interviewing

The Cognitive Interviewing process that can enhance the memories of witnesses and involved officers during use-of-force investigations has now been modified to make it a useful tool for also detecting possible deception when questioning suspects about crimes. The modified protocol includes 2 unexpected requests that seem especially effective in exposing untruthfulness: 1) Asking the suspect...
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5 Tips For Officers In Use Of Force Interviews (Part 2)

Part 2 of a 2-part series In a previous Force Science News, Dr. Ed Geiselman, an internationally recognized authority on interviewing techniques, offered 5 critical reminders for investigators on how to elicit accurate and comprehensive statements from involved officers and eyewitnesses in OISs and other use-of-force cases. But what it you’re an involved officer being...
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Overcoming The “Achilles Heel” Of Use Of Force Investigations (Part 1)

Part 1 of a 2-part series As an expert in interviewing skills, Dr. Ed Geiselman has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to officers being questioned by investigators after use-of-force events. Recently he was asked to review transcripts and audio recordings of interviews in cases where LEOs’ jobs were on...
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OIS Survivors Gain Unexpected “Therapeutic” Rewards From Skilled Investigative Interviews

Researchers are beginning to realize that there’s an unexpected benefit when investigators conduct skillful interviews of officers who’ve survived shootings and other life-threatening encounters. In addition to eliciting more and better information, good questioning techniques tend to ease the emotional after-burn that many officers experience in the wake of traumatic events and leave survivors with...
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New Position Paper Links Cognitive Interviewing To “Fair, Objective” OIS Investigations

An unusual collaboration between a former police psychologist, a senior deputy city attorney, and an internationally known researcher has resulted in a new position paper that strongly encourages agencies to use the special techniques of “cognitive interviewing” when taking statements from officers who survive shootings. Interrogating officers in the same traditional manner as criminal suspects...
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Rest And Memory: New Findings Support Delaying Interviews After An OIS

There’s now more evidence that waiting “a day or 2” after a shooting before interviewing an involved officer will likely produce more accurate and complete recall than insisting on immediate questioning. That conclusion is reported by Dr. Ed Geiselman, a UCLA psychology professor and a faculty member for the Force Science Analysis certification course, after...
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New Study: Cops Use Wrong Tactics In Questioning Witnesses

Officers interviewing witnesses are “potentially reducing the amount of information retrieved” by talking too much, asking too many closed-end questions, and failing to adhere to science-based methods for mining memory, according to new findings by a Canadian research team. Analyzing a sample of 90 interviews with witnesses to violent crimes, the team discovered that: On...
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10 Tips And More For Effective Cognitive Interviewing Of OIS Survivors And Other Cooperative Witnesses

In one word, name a critical–and unfortunately common–mistake investigators make when interviewing police officers who have been involved in shootings. The answer, according to UCLA psychology professor, Dr. Ed Geiselman, is interrupt. “I’ve seen police officers–as well as other presumably cooperative witnesses–bursting at the seams to tell their account of an incident only to be...
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