Current Update

The High Value Detaniee Group research confirms the core principles of the Reid Technique

Oct 20, 2021

In his article, “Law Enforcement Has Been Interrogating Incorrectly. Science Reveals a Better Way”, (October 19, 2021) he reports that the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group (Meissner, Surmon-Bohr, Oleszkiewicz and Alison) criticized...

Previous Updates

Important Trickery and Deceit case

Apr 28, 2004

2003 in the case of State v. Patton 826 A.2d 783, N.J.Super.A.D.,2003 the court very carefully examines the use of trickery and deceit in the interrogation of suspects, and draws a very...

NLRB rules that employees have the right to specify the union rep. of their choice

Apr 21, 2004

In the case of Anheuser-Busch v. NLRB, 4th Cir., No. 02-1740, the National Labor Relations Board reiterated that employees have the right to specify the union representative of their choice that they...

Voice Stress Instruments found to be Unreliable

Mar 14, 2004

Washington University in St. Louis conducted research on voice stress lie-detection technologies and found that they " got dismal results, both in the system's ability to detect people actually engaged in deception...

The Anatomy of a Coerced Murder Confession: Can Post-Conviction Relief Repair the Integrity of the Criminal Justice System?

Mar 12, 2004

On February 17, 2004 Reid president Joseph Buckley appeared at an all day symposium for the American Academy of Forensic Sciences that was called "The Anatomy of a Coerced Murder Confession: Can...

Reviewer calls The Reid Technique an interrogation process "that a free, civilized, and just society can and should endorse without apology.

Mar 12, 2004

In his 28 page review of our book, Criminal Interrogation and Confessions, Professor Joseph Grano (now deceased) carefully examined the law and the interrogation techniques that we teach and concluded that our...

State POST Information

Feb 23, 2004

For a listing of Police Officers Standards and Training (POST) information for John E. Reid & Associates, Inc. training seminars, click here.

Study Shows Accuracy of BAI Decisions

Feb 23, 2004

In the Behavior Analysis Interview the investigator asks both investigative as well as behavior provoking questions. We teach at our training seminars that truthful people and deceptive people oftentimes will offer distinctly...

New Survey on Videotaping Interrogations

Feb 23, 2004

In a new survey conducted by John E. Reid and Associates of 800 police officers from Alaska and Minnesota who had been trained in The Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation, the...

Response to Kassin Research

Feb 23, 2004

Professor Saul Kassin has recently published a research article called "Behavioral confirmation in the interrogation room: On the dangers of presuming guilt".. Law and Human Behavior, 27,187-203. Co-authored with S. M., Goldstein...

President Bush Signs Law to Correct FCRA

Jan 17, 2004

On December 4, 2003 President Bush signed into law the new Fair Credit Reporting Act, which included an amendment by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) that ended the requirement to notify subjects of...

Mossad Recognizes Value of Reid Training

Jan 15, 2004

In a book about his life, On Life and Death - The Tale of a Lucky Man, a former high ranking agent of the Mossad, the Israeli secret service, credits the training...

College Credit

Jan 02, 2004

You can now receive college credit attending our 3-day seminars on "The Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation" and "The Reid Technique of Investigative Interviewing for Child Abuse Investigations". We have been...

Reid in Iraq

Dec 15, 2003

Recently one of our senior instructors, Bill Schrieber, conducted a training seminar on The Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation in Baghdad at the International Airport for the US military. To say...

Miranda Chart

Dec 12, 2003

For the IACP Conference this year, Lisa Judge with the Tucson, Arizona Police Department prepared an excellent Miranda flow chart that very effectively outlines the proper sequence of events for the various...

Psychology & Law: International, Inter-disciplinary, Conference

Nov 12, 2003

In July 2003 an international conference was held in Edinburgh: Psychology & Law: International, Inter-disciplinary, Conference. This was the second international and inter-disciplinary conference, supported by the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS), the...

Reid Preferred Group of Associations (RPGA)

Nov 06, 2003

The Reid Preferred Group of Associations (RPGA) is a program offered to associations in which they receive special discounts on course registration fees and training materials for their members. You can participate...

Reid Technique Research...

Oct 20, 2003

In a research project for his Masters Degree from Lewis University, Illinois State Police Sergeant Jeffrey Padilla attempted to identify the attributes, attitudes and tactics that make a successful interrogator. He identified...

Supreme Court of Canada...

Sep 18, 2003

The Supreme Court of Canada has approved of the techniques that we teach at our training seminars on The Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation. We have written an article comparing the...

Two Stage Interrogation Process

Jun 29, 2003

In the case Missouri v. Seibert, No. 02-1371, currently being considered by the U. S. Supreme Court, the investigating officer indicated that he used a two-stage interrogation technique to obtain the respondent's...

Reid Certification

May 03, 2003

the Reid Institute Certification Program is designed to recognize those individuals who have demonstrated their ability to effectively apply the basic concepts and techniques taught in our training seminars and textbooks.