Questions & answers
Subtitle: a captain's guide to better police interviews and interrogations
By: Eric Schum
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9781948749084
Subjects: Police questioning; Interviewing in law enforcement; Technique
Description: "A police officer is questioning a suspect. The goal is a confession--or, at the least, information that will lead to solving the case. But often, the suspect doesn't want to talk. What can the officer do then--within the law--to get the needed information? Eric Schum, a captain in the New Mexico State Police, has answers that work, based on his long and successful experience in law enforcement--yielding better results in a great many cases than the old standard practices used in many other departments. In this small, information-packed book, he lays out for his fellow officers ways of questioning witnesses and suspects that get results, respect their rights, and lead to fewer false confessions"--