Date/Time
Date(s) - 14/08/2023 - 15/08/2023
8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Location
Movenpick Hotel Apartments Downtown Dubai

Overview
Interviewing is a crucial part in any investigation into any occurrence involving fraud, corruption, money laundering and related financial crime. Interviewing carries mixed meanings and (mis)understandings of what investigative interviewing is.

Our main aim is to ‘design out’ common interviewing pitfalls and deal in method, skills and objectivity to a suitable standard of outcome and ethics for a court, hearing, tribunal, or other decision-making authority.

The course is highly practical and aims to give confidence in interviewing persons involved in fraud, corruption or money laundering, and the challenges it brings.

Objectives

By the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Appraise evidence and fraud data briskly but thoroughly to fully prepare for interviews.
• Gain strong confidence, overcoming the challenges; they start with you!
• Handle “lies” and a sensible inclusion of ‘body language’
• Learn how to use certain models and questioning styles effectively but ethically,
• Learn how to trigger disclosure and capture detail using a new format – not conventional note taking,
• Use Cognitive skills to address those with ‘corporate amnesia’ ‘corporate vulnerability’ ‘diverting and blocking,’ conversational bullies, ‘coded responses’ ‘numbers people’….found among ‘sophisticated’ fraud and corruption criminals.
• Practice skilled assertion.

Outine

• What investigative interviewing is, and what it is not!
• The ‘PEACE’ Model
• Planning and Preparation. Assessing information and fraud evidence.
• Cognitive interviewing skills
• Question types and those to avoid
• The ’TOPS’ technique of interview structure and information capture
• Pacing and pausing – crucial
• Summarizing and ‘checking back’
• Interview Evaluation

Training Format

• Full course information, a course handout and guidance is emailed to you before the course,
• A case study is also issued to enable you to interview different ‘players’ in a money laundering or fraud scenario,
• The course itself is structured to provide you with early presentation of the interviewing models and best practices and give you demonstrations,
• You are divided into random pairs / teams to carry out practice interviews in role plays,
• You are provided with supporting resources (template forms, evidence evaluation, planning forms)
• You will be involved in several interviews, alternating the role of ‘lead interviewer’ and note-taker.
• Interviews are observed and supportive feedback is given

Trainer: Ian Ross – PhD, MSc, ACFS, FCMI, CIArb

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