WHY ARE POLYGRAPH EXAMINATIONS EXPENSIVE?
The best polygraph examiners are highly trained and experienced professionals with a college degree. These polygraph examiners provide a very specialized service. This service requires the examiner to purchase very expensive equipment and pursue continuing education in order to maintain the highest degree of proficiency. The time required to conduct a specific incident single issue exam averages between three and four hours. In most cases, the polygraph exam is conducted because there simply is no other reasonable way to get the desired information, such as when no evidence exists one way or the other, or when it is simply a he-said-she-said situation. For example, in a fidelity case a person might spend thousands of dollars on continuing surveillance while the same information could be obtained for a fraction of that price with a polygraph test and thereby save thousands of dollars. The fees charged for polygraph examinations are reasonable when considering the cost of the polygraph e
