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Return to Training Schedule Level I – Investigative Interviewing Techniques
| Location: | Zoom (DT) - June 25-26, 2025 |
| Dates: | June 25, 2025 – June 26, 2025 |
| Times: | 9 AM – 4:30 PM |
The Level I – WZ Seminar on Investigative Interviewing Techniques is designed for organizations that desire to use a non-confrontational approach to resolve cases and obtain actionable intelligence. Seminar attendees will learn how to conduct interviews that lead to obtaining information from all parties involved while minimizing liability and maintaining the morale of the organization.
Seminar attendees will learn the importance of rapport in investigative interviews and how to apply these tools in difficult conversations. Instruction includes a comprehensive overview of a variety of non-confrontational interviewing techniques to obtain actionable information from witnesses, suspects, and victims.
This program incorporates proven successful techniques in the field to provide attendees with practical, research-based concepts to tackle any investigation. In addition, the multiple strategies taught offer the seminar participant a wide flexibility of approaches permitting them to alter strategies depending on the level of evidence, subject considerations, and type of interview.
Sam Reichman, CFI
Sam Reichman, CFI, is an instructor with Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates, Inc. (WZ). Sam’s career in the private sector began with field positions including Home Depot and Cabela’s and later evolved into investigation driven and program creating positions at RadioShack and Kohls. He has developed and deployed organizational countermeasures against omni-channel fraud, account takeovers, theft of firearms, identity theft, and wireless communications fraud. He was also active in the training and development of field investigators interviewing and analytical skills in order to enhance their overall competency and compliance with investigative standards.
Sam continues his study and application of interviewing research and has published two articles in the International Association of Interviewer’s quarterly journal covering external theft interviewing techniques and also the reported experience of time appearing to slow down during stressful events.
Sam is a charter member of the Loss Prevention Foundation and a Certified Forensic Interviewer. To qualify for this distinction, a person must pass a standardized examination, which covers a series of topics regarding the interviewing and interrogation process. The CFI demonstrates an understanding of legal aspects of interviewing and proficiency in interview preparation, behavioral, analysis, accusatory and non-accusatory interviewing, documentation, and presentation of findings. The objective of this certification program is to create comprehensive, universally accepted professional standards combined with an objective measure of an interviewer’s knowledge of those standards.
Location: Zoom (DT) - June 25-26, 2025