AI is an interviewing technique taught at the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Academy at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centre in Georgia, USA and other centers. AI is an analytic approach to interviewing and interrogation and has become a highly regarded programme.  It uses a combination of methodologies including verbal cuing, deception detection, memory enhancement and non-verbal communication.

Analytic interviewing courses attended by  various law enforcement officers and private security are currently being conducted in Hong Kong under the auspices of the Centre. This lecture is intended to give members of the Society an opportunity to learn more about the techniques and research behind this approach to investigative interviewing,  the training programme and instructors.

James J. Newberry is a retired US Treasury Agent who served 27 years with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and has a high reputation as a bomb and arson investigator. He is recognized as the best in his field at detecting deception. He is guest instructor to the ATF National Academy at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Training Academy and is currently a part-time instructor for the Los Medanos College Police Academy in California. He has lectured at Bramshill Police Staff College and other UK police forces.

Dr. Mark Frank received his PhD in Social Psychology from Cornell University in 1989.  He continued his postdoctoral research at the University of California at San Francisco Medical School with Dr. Paul Ekman.  In 1992 he joined the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and since 1996 has taught interpersonal communication in the Communication Department at Rutgers University in New Jersey.  Dr. Frank's research areas are in facial expressions and interpersonal deception. Apart from his involvement in training police has also trained judges from various jurisdictions including the US Federal Judiciary, US District Court, Pennsylvania State Trial Judges and the New South Wales Magistrates and District Court Judges.

Daniel Voznik  (BBA, MBA) has worked in various law enforcement agencies in New York, San Francisco and Oakland in a range of capacities including patrol, homicide, prosecutions and investigations.  He recently retired from the Oakland Police Department in California at the rank of Lieutenant with over 20 years of experience.  Since his retirement he has been an instructor at the US Treasury Department, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms National Academy, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Training Academy and the Los Medanos College Police Academy.  Dan's expertise is in interviewing and he is considered an expert in the methodology of obtaining confessions.
 

Date: Thursday, September 21, 2000

Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Venue: 14/F, Senior Common Room, K.K. Leung Bldg., The University of Hong Kong

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