Police polygraph test… cops teaching how to lie and pass.

This type of stuff really, really annoys me. Police are the people we look for to uphold the laws, not the people who should be teaching other people to circumvent the laws and not get caught… for a price of course. So, let me get this straight… If I am a corrupt wanna be cop, I can pay to have other cops coach me on how to pass the polygraph and entrance tests into the police department?

This is the polygraph test I found that many police officers must pass to get hired. The funny… or maybe not so funny part of it was that the person who wrote this was promoting his product to “pass the police polygraph test” and not get caught.

The man behind this article is promoting his site on how to lie effectively and pass the police polygraph test as well as other tests. This is supposed to be a picture of him, in uniform on the left.
Now, I may be wrong here, but isn’t the point of the testing is to weed out the corrupt cops? With this type of coaching available from other cops, no wonder, some police department somewhere, is in hot water over corruption issues almost weekly.

Most of the questions involved are about criminal conduct… I may be nuts here, but how does any PD allow officers to coach others or reveal what will be on the test as a side job? Unlike other fields where stuff like this probably does not matter, here, it does.

Police polygraph examinations fall under the guidelines for employment interviewing of title VII of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, so examiners are obliged to conduct the examinations in a way that would not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, etc. One central principle of ethical standards is that relevant questions be related to the job applied for.

Here are typical questions asked on the police polygraph exam:

Did you tell the complete truth on your job application?

Have you deliberately withheld information from your job application?

Have you ever been fired from a job?

Since the age of ( ) have you committed an undetected crime?

Since the age of ( ) have you been convicted of a crime?

During the past year, have you used marijuana more than ( ) per ( )?

Have you used any other narcotic illegally in the past ( ) years?

Have you sold marijuana or other narcotics illegally in the past ( ) years?

Have you ever stolen more than ($ ) worth of merchandise in any one year from any of your employers?

Have you even stolen more than ($ ) in moneys in any one year from any of your employers?

Have you ever used a system to cheat one of your employers?

Have you ever had your drivers license suspended or revoked?

Have you ever had any traffic citations in the past five ( ) years?

Have you deliberately lied to any of these questions?

Values, such as age and number of years is determined by the specific department.

The method used by John E. Reid & Associates employs four standard relevant questions: In the last five years did you steal any merchandise from previous employers? In the last five years did you steal any money from previous employers? In the last ten years did you take part in or commit any serious crime? Did you falsify any information on your application? These standard questions may be modified depending on admissions made during the pretest (e.g., a revision may be, In the last five years did you steal any merchandise other than minor office supplies?).

In addition to the standard questions a fifth relevant question (e.g., concerning the illegal purchase or sale of merchandise; use of narcotics) may be added. The Reid firm also uses what it regards as control questions in pre-employment interviews. Control questions include, Did you ever steal anything in your life? and Did you lie to any of the questions you answered during the application process for this job? It is not clear, however, how the Reid pre-employment control questions differ from the relevant questions. It seems reasonable to suppose that both truthful and non-truthful subjects (in terms of the relevant questions) may be just as concerned with the subject matter of the control questions as they are with the relevant questions. It is also not clear why employers would be less concerned with the control than with the relevant questions.

Remember, the police polygraph is only a tool used by law enforcement agencies to gather background information on the candidate. Though it is seen as a form of intimidation, there are proven techniques and strategies that should be employed to ensure you pass the polygraph.
Did you know that 50% of all police applicants will fail the polygraphy? Can you afford to be one of them? To learn important strategies to pass the police polygraph and also learn why 70% of all police applicants fail the written test

Just sick coaching on how to be better at corruption