After reading almost every post with such intensity, there still leaves that million dollar question that I'd like answered: If (and when ) I do take the polygraph for a pre-employment law enforcement career, (which is scheduled soon) if my answers are "unsatisfactory" based on the test, and I refuse to admit to nothing more other than what I admitted to on the pre-polygraph questionaire, can I still be disqualified through the rest of the processing for the job? What I mean is, If, say for instance the polygraph examiner says I show a discrepancy related to a history of, say, hard narcotic use, (which I have never done, outside of marijuana) and he persists in trying to get me to "admit" to something which he somehow feels I'm hiding, and if I continue to stick to my story, as in politely reminding the examiner I've told everything I need to tell which is on the pre-polygraph questionaire, and I refuse to change my answer, or refuse to "come clean" and admit to further or more suspected possible recent drug use, can I be disqualified in the backgound processing, on his decision that my answers were not to his liking? Another example: I've seen prostitutes on more than one occasion in the past, something I'm not proud of, I know. But in that pre-polygraph questionaire that I fill out, if I admit in writing that I sought out a prostitute some fifteen years ago or so, and have only been with a hooker two or three times in my life which wasn't recently, but a few years back while in the military, (when in reality I've been with hookers more than I care to elaborate on) yet, through the course of the polygraph test, it shows constant deception on my part in refusing to admit to more than I've cared to admit to, (and by doing so, no matter what technique of "good cop-bad cop" he uses to try and to get me to admit all) yet again, I stick to my original story from beginning right on through the whole interrogative process, and don't cave in once, while in the meantime, the results on my test repeatedly show I'm deceptive, can I be disqualified based solely on the polygrpah machines answers, or at the discretion of the polygraph examiner? Sorry for the long-winded post, but a cop friend of mine says I cannot be disqualified solely based on polygraph tests alone, according to POST regulations. Is this true? Thanks in advance for your assistance, mike_C.
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