Interrogation and Questioning The National Security Unit's Instruction and Training Department conducts seminars and workshops on the subject of interrogation and questioning, which are delivered by the best experts in Israel, who are veterans of IDF Special Forces with substantial experience in the field of interrogation and questioning. Putting together all the information derived from interrogation or questioning requires top professional skills. The conclusions of the person conducting the questioning or interrogation may lead eventually to charges against the suspect or his/her acquittal. The National Security Unit's interrogation and questioning specialists played key roles in the interrogation of senior government officials and high-rank terrorists as part of which they had to resolve problems that typically arise during such activities. This experience of many years is delivered to you in a series of exciting professional workshops. Topics in the field of interrogation and questioning include:

• The normative basis of interrogation
• Interrogation and questioning: definitions
• Purposes of interrogation:
  • Exposing offences, even if the perpetrator is no longer alive.
  • Discover the identity and location of the perpetrator and arresting him/her.
  • Preventing further damage and locating hazardous materials or stolen property even if it is obvious that the perpetrators are dead.
  • Gathering evidence in order to bring the perpetrators to trial.
  • Discovering the truth, acquitting the person who is not guilty.
• Purposes of questioning:
  • Legally obtaining a confession from a suspect: confession, admission.
  • Negative admission, obtaining information, revealing the identity of
  • ther accomplices, revealing the identity of other victims, finding more evidence and personal belongings, locating stolen property, weapons, drugs,
  • btaining information to prevent felonies, verifying information from
  • ther sources, making predictions, future defense strategies.
  • In unique cases: recruiting and operating an agent or a prosecution/state witness or recruiting agents as part of public campaign.
• Parties participating in the questioning process, the decisions made by the person who is being questioned, and questioning techniques.
• Typology of people who are under interrogation.