In this week’s International Association of Interviewers interview and interrogation training tip provided by Wicklander-Zulawski, we have Chris Norris, CFI discussing rollover cases.
Developing information and developing larger confessions from our subject is always a challenging task. But one of the most challenging aspects of the development phase is developing information on other people in the workplace as co-conspirators. The rollover cases can be very difficult for us.
Here are a few tips to help us get more information on rollovers:
- Rather than asking who else was involved, it may be better to start by asking, “Who else knows?” This allows us to gather relevant knowledge first, before ever getting into who else might be involved.
- Rather than asking someone to provide names for us we can name the names for them, allowing them to say “no” to each of those we’ve mentioned and then evaluating the “no” responses to identify which appear to be untruthful.
- Similarly, another method may be to ask the subject to evaluate others on a scale of 1 to 10, one being someone they absolutely know is dishonest and ten being someone they absolutely believe is honest. We then listen to the way that they evaluate their co-workers.
- Finally, we can ask about the what, where, when, how, and why—but leave out the “who.” When you develop their knowledge of other information, we can then use that information to develop our knowledge to eventually lead us to the person they’re talking about.
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