Thursday, January 07, 2010

Police to Study Lie-Detecting Hypnosis Techniques

Source: Mirror UK

Police officers will study hypnosis techniques to help them encourage suspects and witnesses to tell the truth.


Investigators from across Britain have been invited to a free taster workshop at the University of Chester next June.


It will be held by hypnosis specialist Tom Silver and aims to teach officers how to produce "the deepest and most receptive states of hypnosis".


Pc Mark Hughes, an investigative skills trainer with Cheshire Police who organised the session, said forensic hypnosis could be "another tool in the armoury".


He told Police Review: "Putting people in a receptive brainwave state makes it likelier that the truth will come out.


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