[Editor's note: Be sure to check out the details on our new two-hour online course, available as a rental for your entire agency very soon: Spotting Pre-Assault Indicators] In an earlier article, we discussed 10 non-verbal cues that can serve as warning signs that a subject may be ...

Drug runners are a creative bunch and when it comes to hiding a haul, their “talents” can be tough to beat…unless you’re educated, alert and curious. In a nearly 400-page report titled, Commonly Encountered Concealment Methods in Land Vehicles, the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) ...

It was 1996 and I was a young investigator working a child sexual abuse case. Once again, I found myself in a room in a social worker’s office with a Child Protective Services investigator talking with a frightened five-year-old little girl. This time the “conversation” was about ...

I haven’t written an article about police work in a while. It’s been a tough year for the profession. I try my best not to gripe and complain, and there are already people out there stating our case far more eloquently than I can. The reason I am writing this now is because I had ...

In the first installment of this series we shared the first eight of 16 words & phrases that can help you spot attempts at deception during interviews. Here are the other eight… 9. Non-reflective denial of knowledge. Phrases to watch for that are given without pause: I ...