What interview and interrogation techniques do private investigators use?
The most common interview and interrogation technique that I use is the friendly conversation approach. I find that when you try to be confrontational that you don’t get as much information as you want. You try to act like you are there to help them. That is always a lie because you’re not actually there to help them. You’re there to help your client and to find out what the truth is, but that’s the position you want to take with them. You want to just clear this matter up. If that doesn’t work, then you shift to, “Well, I know that you are involved, but I don’t think you’re involved in this as much as some other people. If you help us out on this, we might be able to help you”. Then, the third level is when they’re really stonewalling and you say, “You realize you can go to jail for this”, and point all the negative things that could happen to them if they don’t cooperate with you. Many times, somebody is just a hard ass. They’re not going to tell you anything, but usually 90% of all
