Newsletter January 2010
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The Psychopath As An Interrogation Subject
I Have Heroes; they are called DISPATCHERS
Media Relations
Top Ten

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By Stan Walters

One of if not the most challenging interviews or interrogations to conduct are that of the psychopath. Estimated by some experts to comprise about 7% of the world's population, psychopaths make up approximately 55% of the U.S. prison population and are credited with committing roughly 80% of the violent crimes.  The interview or interrogation of psychopaths confirms that a standard or routine approach that is used with all other subjects will not be successful.  As a personality disorder,  a psychopath is marked by characteristics that include a lack of empathy for their victims, a total lack of personal insight, chronic lying, no remorse and a total lack of impulse control.

The traditional efforts of an interrogator are to attempt to highlight or emphasize within the subject a certain level of awareness and acceptance of responsibility for their behaviors.  The psychopath has never and will never attain such level of awareness.  These subjects' behaviors are dictated solely in response to a narcissistic need for ego satisfaction.  Psychopaths are incapable of identifying with or appreciating the level of physical, emotional or mental pain that they cause their victims, the victim's families or their own families. To attempt to get the psychopath to recognize the feelings, fear, trauma or pain they have brought upon their multiple victims is literally a waste of both the interviewer's and subject's time.

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By Andrew G. Hawkes

Many moons ago at the ripe old age of 19 I began my law enforcement career.  I was still too young to become an officer so I became a dispatcher while I waited to go to the police academy. I figured I'd do the "easy" job of dispatching before becoming a cop and doing real police work. 

It sure didn't take me long to realize that being an emergency telecommunications operator is no walk in the park.  The two years I dispatched was probably the toughest, most stressful two years of my 19 year career to date.

It takes a special person to be able to talk on three radio channels to multiple officers, answer phone lines and 911, while typing and documenting your every move into a CAD system, and oh, let's not forget about operating NCIC as well.  Officers with dispatching experience realize the little things that don't come through the radio frequency and can help make the dispatcher's life easier, sometimes by just being a bit more patient, maybe for just a second or two.

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Media Relations Lessons From Flight 1549:
On January 15, 2009 Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger had to set his crippled US Airways Flight 1549 down on the Hudson River. All 155 people on board survived, but a routine day had suddenly turned into a crisis for him, his crew, his passengers, and his airline. The way the company's CEO, Doug Parker, handled the media relations aspects of that crisis can be instructive for anyone in law enforcement who may face a critical incident of their own.

Rule #1: Deal with the media right now !Never ignore the media or refuse any comment because you on't have all the facts. Do that and you lose control of your story and lose essential credibility as well. You should deliver your first statement to the media within two hours after the crisis hits, and that's exactly what US Airways' Parker did.
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