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From Information to Evidence

Investigative Interviewing Training

Information is not evidence. The interview is the difference.

The flagship deployment of the Teach to Talk® philosophy and the Adaptive Strategies Compass™. Two decades of investigative practice built into a complete methodology for turning conversation into court-ready evidence.

A methodology, not a technique. A framework, not a script.

Built from 24+ years of investigative experience·Designed for investigators·Focused on results

Sector

Law Enforcement

Duration

2–3 Days

Level

All Investigator Levels

Format

Agency On-Site

Request This Training

24+

Years Law Enforcement

6.5 Yrs

Major Crimes Unit

6,500+

Officers Trained

1,000+

Interviews Conducted

Every investigation produces information. Leads, tips, observations, records, raw material that points in directions but doesn't close cases. What converts information into evidence is the interview. Specifically, the quality of it.

Detectives who conduct thorough, methodologically sound interviews don't just gather more, they gather better. More accurate. More complete. More detailed. The kind of account that survives cross-examination, corroborates physical evidence, and holds up when a defense attorney spends six months looking for the seam.

Who Should Attend

If you've ever closed a notebook knowing the subject knew more than they said, this course is for you.

Built for every role that conducts investigative interviews, across every category of case. The framework adapts to your case environment. The methodology stays the same.

What You Walk Away With

Not just techniques. A complete framework.

This is not a lecture series. It's a hands-on investigative interviewing system built for real-world cases.

You will work through victim, witness, and suspect scenarios while applying the Teach to Talk® methodology with direct instructor feedback throughout the course.

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A complete investigative interviewing framework

A structured system you can immediately apply in the field, from first contact through disclosure and documentation

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Behavioral baseline analysis and conversational navigation

Observe meaningful changes in behavior, communication style, emotional regulation, and cognitive load over the course of a conversation, to better navigate interviews, build rapport, and manage resistance strategically

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Memory science that improves interviews

Understand how memory encoding, storage, and retrieval affect recall, statement reliability, and question design

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Focus Note-Taking

Capture critical details without interrupting rapport, disclosure flow, or subject engagement

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Scenario-based application under pressure

Practice interviewing victims, witnesses, and suspects in realistic exercises designed to build confidence, adaptability, and control

Premium Positioning

This course is not built for

Investigators looking for:

Scripted interrogation routines
Shortcut deception tricks
Theatrical confrontation tactics
One-size-fits-all questioning systems

This course is built for people who want legally sound, strategically disciplined, evidence-focused interviewing methodology deployable in real investigations.

The Framework, Deployed

Eight strategic directions. One flagship course.

Most interview training teaches techniques. From Information to Evidence teaches the complete framework, every direction of the Adaptive Strategies Compass™, in the only course that delivers all eight.

1Direction One

Teach to Talk®

The foundational philosophy. Purposeful, human-centered dialogue grounded in empathy, rapport, and strategic intent.

2Direction Two

ACCESS Model

A six-stage investigative framework (Assess, Collect, Collate, Evaluate, Survey, Summarize) for moving from initial information to strategic resolution.

3Direction Three

Personality Assessment (DISC)

Reading behavioral style to adapt communication, reduce stylistic friction, and let the substance of the interview drive the outcome.

4Direction Four

Cognitive Interview

The most research-validated technique for improving the accuracy and completeness of recall from victims and witnesses.

5Direction Five

Route Map

Conversation planning that anticipates resistance, branches with the subject, and keeps strategic direction when the interview turns.

6Direction Six

Motive Mapping

Five lenses (Rationalize, Project, Minimize, Socialize, Emphasize the Truth) for understanding the drivers behind a subject's behavior.

7Direction Seven

Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE)

Timing the disclosure of evidence for diagnostic impact and credibility assessment, never as a confrontation reflex.

8Direction Eight

Alignment Method

Challenge-and-clarify questioning that creates evidence-based cognitive pressure, encouraging clarification, not confrontation.

Every module in this course activates one or more of these directions. Investigators leave with a navigation system they can deploy in any interview environment, with any subject type, in any category of case.

Explore the Adaptive Strategies Compass™ →

Course Formats

Two formats: built for your calendar.

Two-Day Format

The complete curriculum delivered as a focused intensive. Victim, witness, and suspect interviews. All eight Compass directions covered. Ideal for agencies training a unit or shift together with a tight operational calendar.

Three-Day Format

Same curriculum, with extended individual scenario time and deeper coverage of the Enhanced Cognitive Interview, the area where technique most directly translates to evidentiary quality.

Looking for the full immersion? The Academy delivers this same course over five days, with a significant expansion of group and individual hands-on exercises and extended scenario practice under real-time instructor feedback.

Learn more about The Academy →

Why Interviews Fail

Most interviews fail before the difficult question is asked

Not because investigators lack commitment. Because critical information is lost through:

Premature evidence disclosure
Contaminated memory retrieval
Over-scripted questioning
Poor behavioral calibration
Interviewer-centered communication
Ineffective rapport strategy
Weak transition management
Incomplete narrative development

The result is often partial disclosure, fragile statements, missed corroboration opportunities, and accounts that weaken under scrutiny.

This course was built to correct those failures systematically.

Memory contamination, how interview behavior shapes the reliability of recall

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Case Impact

What better interviews produce

Better interviews do not just produce more conversation. They produce better cases, the kind that hold up at every downstream step:

Stronger search warrants
Stronger probable cause narratives
Stronger corroboration
Stronger prosecution outcomes
Better victim cooperation
Improved witness reliability
Earlier recognition of resistance and behavioral shifts under stress
Fewer investigative dead ends
Reduced contamination risk
Statements that survive suppression and cross-examination

Scenario Practice

Real conditions, real subjects

Participants work through scenario-based interviews involving:

Reluctant witnesses
Trauma-affected victims
Resistant or evasive suspects
Hostile subjects
Partial disclosure cases
Contradictory accounts
Escalating resistance
Strategic evidence presentation
Multi-interviewer coordination

The Room Speaks Before You Do

Environment shapes disclosure

Investigative interviews are influenced long before the first question is asked.

Room positioning

Eye lines

Distance

Barriers

Movement

Interruptions

Tone shifts

Pacing

Subjects assess threat, safety, authority, and psychological pressure continuously. Investigators learn how environmental factors affect disclosure, resistance, defensiveness, and memory retrieval, and how to intentionally structure interviews to improve communication quality.

What Makes This Different

A different kind of investigative interview training

Traditional Training

From Information to Evidence

Script-driven

Adaptive framework-driven

Confession-focused

Information and evidentiary quality focused

Technique memorization

Decision-making methodology

One-style interviewing

Subject-specific adaptation

Reactive evidence use

Strategic evidence deployment

Generic rapport concepts

Structured rapport methodology

Myth-based “lie detection” assumptions

Grounded in evidence-based practices

Behavioral Science

Human behavior is complex and contextual. This course does not teach participants to determine truthfulness through body language, but rather how to observe behavioral changes strategically to improve communication, rapport, and conversational navigation.

Full Curriculum

What the course covers

Legal & Ethical Considerations

Constitutional & Legal Requirements

The complete legal framework governing investigative interviews, constitutional requirements, admissibility standards, and procedural safeguards. The boundaries that determine whether anything obtained in an interview survives a motion to suppress.

Investigative Mindset

The cognitive framework for organizing information and making disciplined decisions about how evidence is developed, tested, and used. Investigators leave with a way to think about cases, not just techniques to apply to them.

Interview Foundations

Principles of Investigative Interviewing

How memory works, why accounts change over time, what interviewer behaviors contaminate information, and what conditions consistently produce accurate and complete disclosure. Everything else in the course is built on this foundation.

Rapport Building & Teach to Talk®

Rapport is the single most reliable predictor of interview quality. The Teach to Talk® methodology moves interviews away from scripted question lists and toward adaptive, strategically directed conversations that guide subjects from guarded responses to full narrative accounts.

Focus Note-Taking

A documentation discipline that captures critical detail without breaking the interview thread, rapport, or disclosure flow. Field notes that translate cleanly into accurate, court-defensible written statements.

Behavioral Assessment

Personality Assessment & Behavioral Baselines

Rapid identification of behavioral tendencies and the establishment of reliable individual baselines. Without a baseline, no behavior is “deviant”, and every behavioral judgment built on a missing baseline is unreliable.

Recognizing Behavioral Deviations

Reading the verbal, behavioral, and physiological deviations that indicate where deeper inquiry is needed. What changes mean, what they don’t mean, and how to follow them without leading the subject.

Contextual Behavioral Assessment

Observation of behavioral cues in context, posture, tone, pace, movement, and emotional regulation, used to understand stress, rapport, resistance, comfort, and engagement during conversation. Behavior helps explain how someone is experiencing the conversation, not whether they are being truthful.

Advanced Interview Strategy

Interviewing the Victim

Trauma affects memory, disclosure is non-linear, and the interviewer’s approach directly shapes what surfaces. Trauma-informed technique, managing emotional dysregulation, and supporting complete disclosure without re-traumatization.

Interviewing the Witness

Memory contamination mechanisms, the role of suggestion and post-event information, and the techniques that produce the most accurate and complete witness accounts. Securing the account before outside influence takes hold.

Interviewing the Suspect

Approach strategy, baseline establishment, managing denial and minimization, recognizing resistance and evasion patterns, and moving a resistant subject toward disclosure. All within a framework that is legally sound, ethically grounded, and tactically effective.

Enhanced Cognitive Interview

The most research-validated technique for improving recall accuracy. Context reinstatement, varied retrieval, reverse-order recall, and change of perspective, deployed across victim, witness, and applicable suspect contexts.

Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE)

How and when evidence is revealed is as tactically important as the evidence itself. Testing account credibility, surfacing inconsistencies, and creating conditions for disclosure without prematurely revealing what you know.

Challenge & Clarify

Precise intervention for inconsistencies without crossing into coercion. Disciplined use of confrontation that surfaces truth instead of producing the appearance of it.

False Confession Awareness

The psychology and warning signs of false confessions, the interview conditions that produce them, and how to recognize the pull toward those conditions in your own technique. Recognizing the risk is the first defense against creating it.

Managing Disruptive Behavior

Working with hostile, evasive, or emotionally escalated subjects without losing interview control or legal integrity. De-escalation that protects the interview, the case, and the integrity of any later prosecution.

FAQ

Common questions about this course

How long is the From Information to Evidence course?

The course is offered in two formats: a two-day intensive covering the complete curriculum across victim, witness, and suspect interviews, and a three-day version that adds extended individual scenario time and deeper coverage of the Enhanced Cognitive Interview. Both are delivered on-site at your agency.

Who is this investigative interviewing course designed for?

Detectives and criminal investigators across all crime categories, special victims investigators who need trauma-informed technique, task force and multi-jurisdictional investigators, and supervisors who direct and evaluate investigator work. The framework works for all experience levels, newer investigators build it from scratch, while veterans refine technique against current research.

What interviewing methodology does ASC teach?

The course is built around the Teach to Talk® methodology, adaptive, strategically directed conversation rather than rigid scripts. It integrates the Enhanced Cognitive Interview (the most research-validated technique for improving recall accuracy), Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE), trauma-informed practice, and behavioral baseline assessment. Every technique is grounded in peer-reviewed research, not popular mythology.

Is this training trauma-informed?

Yes. A full module covers victim interviewing with trauma-informed technique, how trauma affects memory, why disclosure is non-linear, how to manage emotional dysregulation, and how to support complete disclosure without re-traumatization. Special victims investigators frequently attend specifically for the trauma-informed components.

Does the course cover false confessions?

Yes. The Challenge & Clarify module addresses the psychology and warning signs of false confessions, alongside how to address inconsistencies precisely without crossing into coercion. Recognizing the interview conditions that produce false confessions is essential to building a case that holds up to court challenge.

How does ASC's approach differ from older, confrontational interrogation methods?

ASC's framework is a non-confrontational, evidence-based alternative to older confrontational, accusatory interrogation methods. It is built on cognitive psychology, the Enhanced Cognitive Interview, rapport-based disclosure, and Strategic Use of Evidence, and the goal is accurate, complete, court-defensible information, not a confession at any cost. Older confrontational, accusatory interrogation methods have drawn substantial criticism in the academic literature and in published court rulings for elevated false-confession risk.

What credentials does the instructor hold?

Joseph R. Auriemma, Jr. served 24 years with the New York State Police, including 6.5 years in the Major Crimes Unit, and retired at the rank of Senior Investigator. He has conducted thousands of interviews and interrogations, holds the IADLEST National Certified Instructor (INCI) and Certified Forensic Interviewer (CFI) credentials, has trained 6,500+ professionals, and developed the Teach to Talk® and Adaptive Strategies Compass™ frameworks that anchor ASC's curriculum.

Does this training carry POST or IADLEST credit?

ASC files for state POST, MPTC, MCOLES, TCOLE, CLEET, or equivalent training commission credit hours in every host state. The specific credit hour count depends on course length and the host state's standards. The instructor holds the IADLEST National Certified Instructor (INCI) designation, and ASC can provide documentation that supports reciprocal credit submission for attendees from non-host states. Contact ASC during scheduling to confirm credit availability for your jurisdiction.

How do I bring this training to my agency?

The course is delivered on-site at your agency. Contact ASC through the Request Training form or by calling (914) 489-2330 to discuss scheduling, enrollment, and case-type focus. Joe responds personally and tailors curriculum emphasis to the categories of cases your investigators handle most frequently.

Joseph R. Auriemma, Jr. presenting at a law enforcement training event

6,500+

Professionals Trained

24 Yrs

NYSP Experience

The Instructor

Built from two decades of interviews where the margin for error was zero

Joseph R. Auriemma, Jr. served 24 years with the New York State Police, including 6.5 years in the Major Crimes Unit. He retired as a Senior Investigator supervising 5 investigators and 29 uniformed troopers. His career spanned thousands of interviews across the full spectrum, homicide, major narcotics, multi-jurisdictional cases, and every subject type from cooperative witnesses to seasoned criminal subjects.

During the investigation of the Brandyn Foster homicide, Joe worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and, through FBI-facilitated coordination, spoke directly with engineering personnel at Google. That conversation revealed that certain deleted-user-data records existed within Google systems but were not being produced in response to lawful process. Those investigative findings directly contributed to changes in how Google documented deleted-data responses and to the development of what became known as the Google Tombstone Report, a record identifying data that once existed on Google systems but had since been deleted or rendered unavailable.

That same investigative discipline is the foundation of every course he teaches. From Information to Evidence is built on the lessons that case demanded, the moments where the interview was the only thing that moved the case forward.

Certifications: IADLEST National Certified Instructor (INCI) · Certified Forensic Interviewer (CFI) · Certified Polygraph Examiner

In Their Words

"You were the right person to deliver the right message."

There was an overwhelmingly positive response from the Investigators and Officers in attendance, and I thought it was an extremely valuable training. We were long overdue for it here. It was good to get everyone on the same page, and it was interesting to watch the investigators use the techniques in real cases, note-taking, participatory Miranda, rapport-building, and several others. One of our Investigators did such a good job on a recent interview that I gathered the whole office, and we watched it as a group. The two-day format was ideal for us. You were the right person to deliver the right message.

Lieutenant Daniel J. Belles · Colonie Police Department

Closing Note

Every case has a moment when the interview is the only thing that moves it forward.

This course is built for that moment. When investigative interviews improve, every part of the case improves with them, stronger probable cause, stronger corroboration, stronger prosecutions, fewer dead ends, and statements that survive every challenge that comes after.

Contact ASC to schedule training customized to your agency, investigative responsibilities, and case environment.

Ready to bring this course to your agency?

Available in two-day and three-day formats. Joe responds to every inquiry personally and tailors curriculum emphasis to the case categories your investigators handle most.

Phone: (914) 489-2330

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