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Posted by George W. Maschke
 - Aug 17, 2005, 04:22 PM
Questions asked in pre-employment polygraph screening are more general than the one you suggested. Instead, you might be asked a relevant question such as "Did you ever steal anything worth more than $200?" You might also be asked a question such as, "Did you ever take anything that did not belong to you?" But this second question is a probable-lie "control" question -- one that is intended to cause a reaction even in people a department would want to hire.

You'll find polygraph procedure explained in detail (including the kinds of questions you can expect to be asked) in Chapter 3 of The Lie Behind the Lie Detector, which you can download here:

http://antipolygraph.org/lie-behind-the-lie-detector.pdf
Posted by rushdude
 - Aug 17, 2005, 02:54 PM
 ???

Hello,

Im in the application process for a Police Department, which includes a poly.

My question for you guys,

While you are hooked up to the machine can they ask you questions with specific information to include names and dates?  For example:

On January 20th did you steal from Joe Blow?

Do they ask these type of questions while you are hooked up?? with that specific detail?

In a hurry and havent had a chance to really read the information on this site.  Awesome Site by the way.

Thanks in advance guys!!!