posted 01-22-2008 02:17 PM            

CVOS.

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posted 01-22-2008 02:42 PM            

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Calibration Verification of Sensitivity Test (CVOS)
A testing procedure conducted as the first chart, which is designed to assess an
examinee’s capability to process information, detect psychological or chemical
countermeasures, permit adjustment of gain settings to match the response capability of
the examine, determine whether sufficient professional rapport has been established with
the examinee, and reduce excessive anxiety.

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I believe it comes from Roy Ortiz and the LAPD. Perhaps someone could verify that and profide and link, cite, or scan.

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posted 01-22-2008 10:42 PM         

In all seriousness, please keep posting charts! This is a great thing. I would like to post a few as well but I am too tech challenged to do it!

posted 01-22-2008 11:17 PM            

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posted 01-23-2008 09:51 AM            

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As far as I'm concerned she was behaviorally cooperative during the test. The EDA is a little odd. She has chronic back pain, and a PRN prescription for Diazepam, which she says she reportedly uses 2-3 times per week and last used on the day before the examination. That may be the cause of the EDA problem, however it has also been quite cold here.

Here are the questions from the actual test.

This case would actually be easier if she didn't look like she was truthful. She's a 12 year cardiac nurse, turned cocaine dealer. House was raided: over 100 firearms, cocaine pacaged for distribution, and a whole un-tagged mountain lion frozen in the freezer. Facing 25 years in DOC, she pled to three on probation with 7 mos in Work Release. Now out of WR for less than three weeks, she missed a PO appointment (she was evidently at a job interview, and was hired as office mgr at a medical research lab). She made the UA that same day, and was clean. PO does home visit the same evening, and observes she is still unpacking - unpacking boxes that contain drug paraphernalia. Mouth swab is hot for cocaine, only 1 hour after the clean UA. The swab was also evidently dropped and handled.

She's on daily UA's and every other test and swab has been clean. The attorney is arguing the swab was contaminated by residue.

I had instructions from the attorney to confront and interrogate if she was deceptive.

She's sticking to her guns on the no-cocaine use story while she's facing revocation and 25 years in prison. They are going to trial.

This is all happening in a very "tolerant" jurisdiction. They could be expected to respond to a violation in which she found and used up some old stash, with some intermediate sanction - she'd maybe do another month in work release, and some additional or more intensive counseling, with no real threat of removal from the community. They'd probably even reinstate probation without restarting or resentencing. She says she's clean and is still fighting, when it would make a lot more sense to admit the violation.

She requested the polygraph, through her attorney. I was expecting that she'd fail the test.

Below is the results from OSS-3

Here is the report from OSS-2, though the test doesn't conform to OSS-2 requirements for 3 RQs. No surprise that its INC, as the totals from 2 RQS can be expected to be generally weaker than those from the 3 RQ exams on which OSS-2 was normed.

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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the war room."
--(Stanley Kubrick/Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove, 1964)