CVSA® Certified Examiners Course
Excellence in Technology Training and Service®
Join the elite group of men and women who have enhanced their law enforcement and investigative credentials by becoming a Certified CVSA Examiner through the NITV Federal Services. The skills we teach are applicable for those working in law enforcement, the military, and other public sector investigative fields.
Certified CVSA Examiners are also eligible to become members of The National Association of Computer Voice Stress Analysts (NACVSA®) to enhance their professional development, ensure continuing education, obtain advanced professional certifications, and take advantage of NACVSA-only member discounts.
NITV FS’ world class instructors will be teaching you during the acclaimed, intensive five-day CVSA® ‘Certified Examiners Course’ hosted by select law enforcement agencies across the USA.
Utilized the CVSA in major crime investigations, intelligence gathering, and high-value detainee interrogations.
Trained thousands of local, state, and federal law enforcement and military personnel.
Effectively utilized the CVSA® for pre-employment background screening, arson investigations, cold case homicides, and to assist identifying global threats.
Our instructors have decades of previous polygraph experience, and this versatility provides greater depth of knowledge when comparing the benefits of CVSA® with legacy systems.
All of our instructors are experts in the technical and operational applications for the CVSA, and they have conducted thousands of CVSA examinations worldwide.
All of our instructors are expert interviewers and interrogators who will provide you with a new insight into the art of interviewing and interrogation, and thereby enhance your capabilities to obtain legally valid and verifiable confessions.
NITV FS’ world class instructors will be teaching you during the acclaimed, intensive five-day CVSA® ‘Certified Examiners Course’ hosted by select law enforcement agencies across the USA.
The course syllabus was developed by a team of experts and includes the latest technical and scientific information, unique CVSA-only techniques, as well as best practices. Our training course is constantly updated and undergoes regular revision, which is why our Certified Examiners Course is considered to be the best truth verification training course in the world. A key component of the course is the specialized Defense Barrier Removal (DBR®) interviewing and interrogation technique, which was developed by the founder of NITV Federal Services.
DBR® is utilized in conjunction with the CVSA® and focuses on proven methodologies designed to enhance your interviewing skills leading to an increase in admissions and confessions.
CVSA® Course Description
20h
History of Lie Detection and Voice Stress Analysis
From its early beginnings to the state of the art today.
6h
CVSA Instrumentation
The student learns this highly developed, user-friendly system to conduct perfect examinations.
3h
Physiology
An in-depth overview of the body’s reaction to jeopardy. What the human body does to compensate for its inability to “fight” or “flight” and our ability to monitor those reactions.
13h
Interviewing and Interrogation
Beginning with NITV FS’ Defense Barrier Removal® technique, following with Advanced Kinesics and ending with obtaining admissions, we provide advanced instruction in the art of interviewing and interrogation. For over 35 years, NITV FS’ Defense Barrier Removal® technique has proven to be particularly effective when conducting criminal and pre-employment interviews to obtain truthful statements, as well as obtaining admissions by military interviewers during cross-cultural interviews. Videos of known conclusion interviews and examinations are utilized as training aids.
4h
Psychology
The psychological aspects of question formulation and its bearing on the subject’s reaction, as well as an overview of psychological stimuli and how this results in the physiological responses detected by the CVSA.
14h
CVSA Chart Interpretation
Learning from the established criteria for an indication of deception is not necessarily one of the easiest aspects of truth verification, but certainly the most critical.
1h
Final Analysis Confirmation Tool Plus® (FACT Plus®) Scoring System
After students have mastered Chart Interpretation, they will learn how to operate the FACT Plus® Scoring Systems – which makes the CVSA®III the next generation in the truth verification.
6h
Test Construction and Question Formulation
From control questions to the Zone of Comparison format, students learn test application and construction.
4h
Covert Interviewing and Analysis
One of the most useful functions of the CVSA®III; to include analysis of previously recorded interviews to identify suspects and solve cold cases as well as ‘structured’ telephone conversations.
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