Background Information SCAN - Forensic Statement Analysis

This is world-renowned and the original 'forensic statement analysis' technique, which helps you decipher hidden signals within statements (both verbal and written) from witnesses, victims and suspects of crime.

How does it work?

The SCAN statement Analysis training course provides you with a truly amazing technique to help you obtain more information from a suspect than you thought possible. It is particularly good for using pre-interview, to establish who to interview and what questions to ask to reveal the truth. SCAN is non-accusatory and non-threatening and can be used confidently knowing that you are operating within applicable law, including the Human Rights Act.

Developed by Avinoam Sapir, a former psychology professor and Israeli police officer, the SCAN technique relies on the theory that people really want to tell you everything - even when they're guilty!

The SCAN training course will show you how to interpret any statement from beginning to end. Every word in the subject's statement - the pronouns and connections, the subjective time, the changes in language - will 'talk' to you and show you the answer. It will also show you how to obtain a statement from a witness/suspect in their own words without any leading at all from the investigator themselves. Obtaining the complete time-frame required and so on.

In 3 days you will be able to use the technique to unlock hidden information that you would not get just from an interview. The training course will explain the 10 step process that will direct you towards greater interview success by providing more information than initially appears to be available, and show you:

• Whether the subject is truthful or deceptive
• What information the subject is concealing
• Whether or not the subject was involved in the incident/crime

The technique includes the VIEW (Verbal enquiry, the effective witness) questionnaire, which is used to narrow your suspect list. It will narrow your interview options and save manpower, work time and money. It can be used with many people at once, and even remotely, sent by fax anywhere. The questionnaire is an interview in writing. Once a person fills it out, they have already been interviewed in a very structured way on paper. It will guide the interviewer on how to conduct the follow up face to face interview.

SCAN is used all over the world, both commercially and by organisations such as the FBI and is probably the original FSA technique. It solves cases using a completely different set of rules, and provides a vital new tool to the investigator, often solving cases previously unresolved.

The Course

The SCAN training course is delivered in association with the Laboratory for Scientific interrogation, Phoenix, Arizona. It is delivered by the originator, or a personally trainer tutor.

The Course Includes:

• Three days of intensive training in the SCAN technique (a total of 26 hours of instruction)
• Two days of advanced training consolidating the delegates understanding of all the tools they have been given.
• Intensive in-class practice for identifying the important points in a statement, organizing and expressing them in a report, developing the statement and formulating conclusions.
• All training materials, including a 230-page workbook of lecture notes and guided reading
• The VIEW Questionnaire with basic instructions for its use. VIEW (Verbal Inquiry - the Effective Witness) is an effective screening process for specific-suspicion cases, based on the SCAN technique. VIEW presents the SCAN technique in a ready-to-use form
• A CD-ROM of SCAN guidelines, case studies, and at-home exercises, including the SCAN Workshop Guidebook, the VIEW Guidebook and the LSI SCAN Newsletter Anthology.
• Technical support. All students have permanent access to a fax Helpline, for help and advice, entirely FREE! Students can find this 'second opinion' helpful if they work alone.

The course is only available in the UK through Argent Training.