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  Herman Cleveland

  BCJ 4303 Face-to-Face Interview

  Prof. Barney A. Butler

  Date

  Summary of Interviews

  Introduction

  As a paper summary of four interviews carried out, this paper seeks to address what was covered in each interview collectively as a summary. The summary contains interviews from Jasmine Storey from Calera, Alabama, Officer Green, Birmingham, Alabama, Brandon Alexander Smith from Birmingham, Alabama, and Kennedy Trailer from Montgomery, Alabama. Each of the interviews was carried out in the interviewees’ residences. Ms. Storey works as a Criminal Investigator for the Social Security Administration, while Officer Green serves as a former police officer in the Birmingham Police Department. Mr. Smith is a serving police officer in the Birmingham Police Department, while Ms Trailer is a sworn-in Staff Sergeant (SSGT) in the United States Airforce.

  Background Information

  Through an extensive and credible background, each of the interviewees can hold a position as an interrogator. The interviewees show that through extensive education and exposure, there is a need to be conversant with situations that help in honing interrogation techniques. The extensive experience through conducting routine daily interviews has helped the interviewees establish rapports with their interviewees during interviews where they have learned how to ask certain questions when to ask them, how to frame the questions, and how to get information from their interviewees; hence gaining interrogative skills and techniques applicable to the success of their selective professions.

  Typical Interview Type

  While conducting interrogative interviews, the interviews must be conducted in an official capacity. By doing so, the interviewer gains access to information from interviewees without losing focus on the goal of the interview. Ultimately, the information gotten through an official capacity of an interview represents not only professionalism but also helps the interviewers avoid fraudulent mistakes that may occur when one loses focus because of un-officiating an interview. Also, while in the official capacity as an interrogator, one must wear official office wear that may include either the agency’s uniform or a suit. Representation through official wear helps maintain the respect needed when interviewing the interrogator and the interviewee.

  Purpose of Typical Interview

              Stating the interview’s purpose is imperative towards assuring that the interviewee is comfortable enough to provide information regarding the case in question. Assuring interviewees that their information will be used towards the safety and security of civilians should be an added advantage towards the interviewee being comfortable enough to express themselves fully when providing information.

  Preparation for Typical Interview

  Interview preparations are important in assuring that interviewers have all necessary information towards approaching interviewees of the case. Through the preparation of interviews, interviewers should assess the background information presented to them to help determine the number of people to be interviewed, the type of questions to formulate for each interviewee to obtain substantial information towards the case and find out how many people need to be involved in the interview process. Each of these aspects of an interview preparation is essential for gathering appropriate and conversant information regarding the case over repetitive and redundant information that may seem useless towards providing information pertaining to the case.

  Location of Typical Interview

  Formal settings are more preferable to informal environments when conducting interviews. First, with a formal environment, interviewers control the environment that makes interviewees uncomfortable when answering questions. With the control of the environment, the interviewer can ask as much as possible to get reliable information from interviewees. Also, informal environments that may include unmarked cars with tinted windows will help interviewers conduct field interviews if they are far from a secure formal environment that provides secure zones to communicate with interviewees.

  Who is Typically Present?

  While conducting interviews, the presence of other people will pose a point of distraction and non-compliance from the interviewee in question. At times, the presence of someone else in the vicinity of the interviewing area will be intimidating; therefore, interviewees will not provide reliable information needed for the case at hand. Therefore, it is important that when conducting interviews, interviewers should have a secluded area that from interviews with no other party present for proper face-to-face interviews that reliable information may be given towards the case.

  Interview Opening

  Interview opening is important in establishing rapport and a comfortable environment between interviewers and interviewees. By interviewers introducing themselves to the interviewees, there is an establishment of authority and credibility in any fraudulence on the interviewer’s side. Also, by explaining facts about a case, an interviewee can relate to the situation and give information according to the best of their capability towards a credible case. Therefore, to better help the credibility of a case, it is important to introduce oneself as the interviewer, state facts about a case, and help ease the interviewee into answering questions comfortably without any duress.

  Interview Techniques

  Different situations call for different interviewers to employ different interviewing techniques. The goal of each technique is first to ensure that the interviewee is comfortable. Secondly, the techniques are reliable in achieving the status of if the interviewee is telling the truth or not. With each technique, the interviewer needs to control the interview, the environment and establish a rapport that provides a lead in how to continue with the environment. Consequently, each interviewing technique by each interviewee presented was effective in the proper articulation of case proceedings towards the closing of a case with effective and substantial evidence.

  Recording the Interview

  Interview recordings are required for court documentation and credibility if needed to be used as evidence in court. These recordings can be notes were taken, video or audio recordings. For all recordings to happen, there has to be a non-disclosure agreement signed by the interviewee to help with sealing information obtained during the interview until it is used in court as evidence.

  Overcoming Resistance

  It is important to establish a rapport with interviewees that ascertain the need for the interview. With such affirmation, each interviewee knows the purpose of the interview and will willingly collaborate to provide information that may be gathered as evidence towards the case in question. Therefore, compliance assures that there is no resistance to the interview by the interviewee.

  Closing interview

  When closing interviews, it is important to recap everything that the interviewee said through each question asked. This technique is important in assuring that the interviewee collaborates with the information presented. By recapping the information, interviewers also use this chance to help detect any presence of lies or inconsistencies in the information provided.

  Detecting and Responding to Deception

  Different techniques work differently when conducting interviews to detect deception. They include a simple as recapping the interview and looking for inconsistencies or looking for signs of nervousness. Once this has been achieved, interviewees need to go through a lie detector test that scares them into telling the truth or face punishment for offering falsified information towards an investigation. This technique is effective in ensuring that interviewees remain truthful throughout the interview.

  Conclusion

  Interviews are important in ongoing investigations that provide a degree of information towards the effective provision of information needed to help in securing evidence for it. Throughout an investigation, the interviewer should ensure that an interviewee is comfortable providing credible information.  Choosing the right and secure environment to conduct the information is important in securing control over the interview towards proper information relayed for information obtained. Therefore, different interrogation techniques are important in ensuring that interviewees present credible and truthful information about an investigation.  Recording interviews is also important to help in court documentation when information from an interview is used as evidence. Ultimately, these techniques should include lie detection and resolution techniques to help in providing proper and credible informationsuch as Nestle has also made it difficult to obtain a significant market share.