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R.c‘.M.P;Interrog’ation Techniques

~‘Broinwoslling’ To Obtain EvidentoAnd Confessions

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The document'frmmVMich the following excepts are ta- ken, is entitled Interroga- tion Techniques and origin-

\ ates from the Training and I Development Branch at Head- quarters of the Royal Canad- ian Mounted Police, in Ott- awa. It was written by Chief Inspector A.R. Roberts of the Calgary City Polite and bears the crest of the R.C.M.P. on its cover. The commanding »

officer of the P.E.I. Head- quarters of the R.C.M.P. in Charlottetown telephoned Superintendant Moffat in 0t- tawa to confirm the authen- 'ticity of theKdocument and :reported that it is current- :ly in use as a training mans .ual within the force.

It is important to keep in mind that the Interroga-

'tion Techniques outlined

here are to be used on "sus-

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Introduction To criminalinterrogation "-3

_"Police generally are A not unfair in interrogations whereby they subject the sus- pect to unnatural stresses.

We are simply exploiting,those

tendencies which are most common to most people. We do not go against huaman nature but-rather go along with hu— man nature. Tosucceedihe interrogator must have con- fidence in himself and the tenchniques he employs. He must have confidence in his powers of persuasion, his po— wers of perseverance and be able to adapt to any situat— ion that may arise in the interrogation room. As one author states 'the torture

must come from within the sus-

pect's mind and not interrog- ation method employed by the police'. The subject must

psychologically feel that he will benefit from confessing,

It is psychologically wrong to

supose that a suspect will confeQS'for nothing. In his mind he may think the Very act of confessing to his-

'crime will help him in court.'

V "We as professionals and 'we are professionals, have had to broaden our baSe of interrogation techniques by ’new methods and hidden tech- niques.None of the techniques which are discussed in this v paper will employ physical rforce of any kind. The tech- niques outlined hereunder do however employ a hidden bat— tery of 'hsi nao' (brainwash- ing) techniques to influence the emotional attitude of the subject or suspect. ,

" '"Qertainly to begin with

in any interrogation we are going to do everything that is legal and right.,,But there is (a point that is reached in ev— ery interrogation when you still may not have that state- ment and you know that if you go any farther in the techni—, que you are using that your statement will be ruled inad— missible. It is at this point that the interrogator must make a decision: does he now leave the interrogation room without the statement or does he now proceed with other ,techniques which he knows will

not allow the statement in but’

may give him informatiOn which

will lead to the/securing of other evidence which in itself

'may be admissible. I suggeSt that at this point that the Marquis of Queensbury Rules go out the window and the inter— ‘rogator must open up his bag of tricks and go for the re- covery of the weapon or the stolen property or the accom- plices or any evidence which imay be presented in court re- ;gardless of the method employ- .ed to secure that is employed ,to secure that evidence. In .our present‘day the interro-

;gator could concievably hit .the suspect over the head with Ja baseball bat to secure real .evidence.that may be admiss- .ible in court in the case in

3question. I'm sure that Ein—

‘,stein, the greatest mathemat-

ican of‘our time, would say'

that two and twbimakes seven_if we hit him over the head with a baseball bat. I do not advo—

-cate violence in any form to

secure a confebsion or state-

pects" — individuals who, ac- cording to our system oquus-

‘ tice, ought to be assumed ,innocent of the crime in

question until proven guilty by.a court of law. . It is a manual for mem- bers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, not for the

_mafia, apt for guerrillas, \ or for a goon squad. '

These "techniques are' taught and used in our Can— adian society - not in the

jungles of Indonesia or the l

kangaroo courts of a milit- ary dictatorship. 'So when the myths fall, they fall hard! ' R.C.M.P. trainees are taught Vbrainwashing" meth- ods (cf. p. 2) to defame and insult (p. 27, to threa— ten,(p. 15), to promote lies (p. 29) and to tell lies (p. 28). The manual insults and degrades women (pp. 7,8, , and 33). it outrageously

ment from any suspect no mat- ter how heinous the crime..The

is a better way, there is a [more humaine - by using the

ipower of the spoken word. The

following are some suggested. techniques of interrogation that have been succesSfully

lemployed by many interrogators.

iEv’oryhody’s Doingfilt »

‘ "In the case of a pervert

nor indecent assault or an

crime where sex is involved, our lineage may go something'

like this. a ‘ "Son, do yOu think that

you are the only one who has

ever touched (substitution) a girl? I'll guarantee you

everyday thousands of us. as

Slanders religion (p. 14), it promotes methods to cre4 ate "mental imbalance" in men and to destroy thefldig- nity of the person (p.315) to obtain evidence and con- fessions - and these techni- ques are all billed as "ef- forts to seek the truth"!

To suggest that these methods are a search for the truth is a hideous, monst- ‘ rous parody — the product of a gross and diseased mind;

But let the manual speak for itself and draw your own conclusions. A dosen copies are available on reserye at ’the new UPEI library. , p

' EThis manual is a symptom of a sick police force which in turn is a symptom of a ~ sick society! I emphasize A again that the exerpts which follow on pages six and se- ven are verbatim exerpts $2 context from this report.

y Chief Inspector LR. Roberts

‘we walk down the streets—

think what it would be like with a certain girl that we see. Don't think that you'r. the only one that has had these thoughts. We just sun ply didn't have the guts to do anything about it. Girls are the same way. You don't mean to tellxme that when they see a good—looking fel- low on the street they are not thinking of it. It's just human nature, that's all. And anyway, this broad was probably asking for it"

'cont. Pm: 6&1