Hamilton County

Fire Investigation Unit

Strategic Suspect Interview Techniques
For Law Enforcement and Fire Investigators

Strategic interviewing is a vital, yet often overlooked, component of fire and explosive investigative methods and tools. During the presentation, previous interview videos will be utilized as examples. Presented by ATF Special Agent Dino Balos, this course provides easy and realistic suspect interview techniques to strengthen arson and explosive cases.

Course Topics:
– Rapport Simplified (including serial arsonists)
– How to Recognize a Suspect’s “Cooperation Bait”
– Miranda Matters: How to Spot Overlooked Opportunities
– How to Pass the Ultimate Test of Voluntary Suspect Statements
– Strategic Bluffs
– Boxed in by Lies (“The False-X Factor”)
– Situational Themes, De-escalation, and the CSI Effect
– Gathering the Elements of the Offense & Covering the Legal Defenses
– Recording Interviews / Report Writing for the millennial & Gen Z audience
– Closing and Trial Readiness
– The Strategic Use of Federal firearms, explosives, and arson laws

Location: Sharonville Fire Department Station 86, 11637 Chester Rd. Sharonville, Oh 45246

Date/Time: January 15, 2025, or January 16, 2025, starting at 8:00am (Doughnuts and lunch provided)

Cost: $45

Instructor: Special Agent Dino Balas, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). ATF Special Agent Dino Balas is a 26-year federal law enforcement officer. He is a certified ATF instructor who has investigated hundreds of firearms, explosives, and arson cases — many of which were supported by reliable confessions as evidence — and has testified concerning confessions or admissions made to him as part of the prosecution’s case-in-chief.

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