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TACTICAL TRADECRAFT SOLUTIONS LLC
The roadside interview is the conversation an officer has with a driver and passengers during a lawful stop. It is short, voluntary, and often decides what happens next.
Tactical Tradecraft Solutions LLC teaches roadside interviewing as a structured skill in both of its courses, so officers can elicit contradictions, recognize deception, and articulate what they observed.
Establishing a behavioral baseline during the initial encounter.
Conducting structured roadside interviews to elicit contradictions.
Recognizing verbal shifts in tone, cadence, and structure.
Identifying pacifying behaviors, nervousness, and nonverbal leakage.
Differentiating rehearsed responses from spontaneous deceptive responses.
Connecting behavioral deviations to reasonable suspicion or probable cause.
Accounting for cultural and contextual influences on behavior.
Articulating observations in written reports and oral testimony.
An unstructured conversation produces impressions. A structured interview produces specific answers and specific behaviors that an officer can document and explain.
The training ties each observation back to lawful investigative practice: observable behavior, articulable facts, and the legal standards that govern the encounter.
Interdiction Academy 2.0 teaches structured roadside interviews as part of the full interdiction stop. Deceptive Behavioral Detection 2.0 goes deeper into deception during roadside encounters and includes structured interviews between students.
Each course is 10 hours in one day. Standard class hours are 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM unless otherwise noted.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
VERIFIED ELIGIBILITY
Active sworn law enforcement personnel with full arrest authority only.
A 10-hour, one-day criminal interdiction course covering indicators before a stop, concealments, structured roadside interviews, reasonable suspicion, case law, and report writing.
A 10-hour, one-day course on detecting verbal and nonverbal deception during roadside encounters, interviews, and interdiction stops, including structured interviews between students.