Elevate Your Investigations with Science-Based Interviewing

Whether you are investigating internal theft, workplace misconduct, or security breaches, the quality of your interviews often determines the quality of your results. Yet many corporate investigators still rely on outdated interrogation tactics borrowed from law enforcement’s past. These methods are not only ineffective, but they also pose serious risks to your organization’s reputation, legal standing, and employee trust. Modern police agencies have abandoned the old way of interviewing, and so should your organization.

For those organizations interested in using the most modern and evidence-based interview strategies, we offer something different.

Science-Based Interviewing is a modern, research-backed approach to investigative interviewing. Developed in response to the clear failures of conventional techniques, this method is designed to help your team gather reliable and accurate information through ethical and effective practices.

Why Your Team Needs to Move Beyond Interrogation Tactics

Conventional interrogation training often teaches investigators to:

• Assume the subject is guilty before asking a single question
• Use manipulative techniques to pressure confessions
• Focus on control rather than connection
• Use deception-detection techniques that are actually nothing more than pseudo-science

These outdated methods often lead to unreliable statements and expose your company to legal and reputational harm.

Science-Based Interviewing replaces those tactics with a better approach.

• We train investigators to:
• Build trust and rapport even with reluctant subjects
• Use open, non-leading questions that uncover the truth
• Rely on critical thinking and psychology rather than scripts and shortcuts
• Follow a structured process that is consistent, professional, and defensible

Practical, Ethical, and Effective

Science Based Interviewing will help your team:

• Make better investigative decisions based on solid information
• Reduce the risk of coerced or inaccurate statements
• Uphold ethical standards that reflect your company’s brand
• Defend your interview process during legal reviews or internal investigations

This is not theory. This is real world training delivered by experts who understand the challenges your investigators face every day.

Bring Us In

We can present this course at your location in person. Why select the Savage Training Group? Because we are one of the country’s most prominent law enforcement training firms so your investigators will learn the same techniques being taught to police officers. But our instructors are not just subject-matter experts in science-based interviewing, they are also expert instructors who know how to connect with an audience. You can learn more about our team and our science-based interviewing course here.

It is time to replace outdated techniques with modern training that works.

Contact us now to schedule a private training or learn more about how Science-Based Interviewing can improve your investigative outcomes.