AntiPolygraph.org has received information that the relevant questions asked on the Los Angeles Police Department's pre-employment polygraph examination are very similar to these:

1) Have you stolen more than four hundred dollars in cash or property from an employer?

2) Are you withholding information regarding your illegal drug history?

3) Have you committed an undisclosed serious crime?

4) Based on your personal bias, have you ever committed a negative act against anyone?

5) During a domestic dispute, have you physically harmed a significant other?

For the most part, these are very obvious relevant questions. But note that #4 is vague enough that it might easily be confused for a probable-lie "control" question.

Commonly used "control" questions include:

1) Prior to your application, did you ever lie to someone in a position of authority?

2) Before this year, did you ever put false information on an official document?

3) Prior to this year, did you ever betray someone who trusted your word?

4) Before your LAPD application, did you ever do anything that would place your integrity into question?

5) Before this year, did you ever take credit for something you didn't do?

6) Prior to this year, did you ever deceive a family member?

Note that all of these "control" questions include a "time bar" placing the scope of the question before the current year or before the applicant's application for LAPD employment. This practice might be changed after this information is posted.

The procedure also includes announcements of the beginning and end of the "test," an irrelevant question such as, "Is your name ______?" and a sacrifice relevant question along the lines of, "Regarding your background package, do you intend to answer each of my questions truthfully?"

For related reading, see the LAPD's Pre-Employment Polygraph Guidelines:

http://antipolygraph.org/documents/lapd-polygraph-guidelines.pdf

Hi,

Does LAPD share their polygraph records with other departments? 

Thanks

Mike,  thanks for the info.  A friend is getting ready to take the LAPD exam and this info will help.

hi if you answer no you will probably fail the question.. however the question should be discussed with you fully during the interview

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She is being honest in that it was not a "test" at all, but rather an interrogation.

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If you study the polygraph technique, there is no such thing as looking for spiking on individual questions. They will tell you it's "screening", but it's a bunch of B.S. You were not subjected to a PDD exam; you were manipulated and interrogated. It is totally up to their whim what they will do.

Last year the LAPD produced a public relations Q & A video about polygraph screening featuring polygraph operator Michael Ward. A commentary, along with the video itself, is available on the blog here:

https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2021/04/18/lapd-polygraph-operator-michael-ward-s...