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January 6, 2015

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Are You Ready to Retire?

Fitness Tip

Emotional Maturity

Interviewing Best Practices

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Are You Ready to Retire?

Make your friends still on the job at your old agency envy your life - don't sit around and envy them

By Dave Smith

Reprinted from Policeone.com

Law enforcement is a family. No doubt about it, once you are initiated into the fraternity of warrior men and women you feel the sense of it, the pull of it everywhere you go. If you are "on the job" you instantly have rapport with hundreds of thousands of folks anywhere you go, from San Diego to Halifax, from Hamburg to Orlando. From your hometown to mine, the sense of belonging is a comforting certainty you will enjoy the rest of your life... or will you?

I was talking with my friend Jim Gerien - NYPD retired - about this very issue at a recent Street Survival Seminar. "Once a cop, always a cop, except once you're retired you are expected to move on. 'On the job, you're the best, off the job, you're a pest!' is an NYPD homily meant to remind everyone of that very fact," Jim explained of his beloved NYPD. Jim and the folks at NYPD have a very solid support structure for retirees to feel connected and not suffer the brutal sense of separation so many report upon "leaving the family" upon retirement.

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Essential #1 for Career and Relationship Success: Emotional Maturity

"The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity."-Paul Tillich

Relationships and careers are built on a foundation of emotional maturity. No matter how dynamic, witty and intelligent one might be, these characteristics mean virtually nothing unless we have learned to control our emotional responses to life. True, we hire bright, well-educated, experienced applicants. Though, be assured, these attributes wear thin very quickly if their emotional maturity is marginal -- or worse. Emotions are the icing on the cake. Emotions are the Corvette in the garage. Emotions are the aged, superb cabernet in the goblet for our species. Without our virtually unlimited variety of feelings we would be little more than soft, well dressed robots. Nonetheless, emotions have the potential to become raging California wild fires, burning out of control and destroying everything in their path. This destruction can include our careers.

Emotional maturity means, in essence, controlling our emotions rather than allowing our emotions to control us. That does not mean we should hide or repress emotions. No one expects you to be a human Sphinx.

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Interviewing Best Practices

The Reid Technique is built on a core of principles that include the following:

Always conduct interviews and interrogations in accordance with the guidelines established by the courts

2. Do not make any promises of leniency

3. Do not threaten the subject with any physical harm or inevitable consequences

4. Do not deny the subject any of their rights

5. Do not deny the subject the opportunity to satisfy their physical needs

6. Always treat the subject with dignity and respect

Best Practices

The successful interrogation is one in which (1) the suspect tells the truth to the investigator and, (2) persuasive tactics used to learn the truth are legally acceptable. With these goals in mind, the following are a list of best practices for applying the Reid Technique, along with a brief discussion of each practice:

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