My LAPD poly experience

[jasonbourne]

I'll skip all of the nonsense.  This test was not the full polygraph, it was a specific one.  There was the "stim test," which was somewhat funny.

Before this, of course, we reviewed all 8 questions.

From my recollection the relevant questions were

Had you ever comitted a serious crime

and

Have you hidden any serious crime from your background

The control questions were: Have you ever lied to get out of serious trouble

Have you ever falsified and official document

those are all i remember, and there were also a few irrelevant questions.

I employed counter-measures on the control questions and tried to stay calm and relaxed with regular breathing on my relevant questions.  

We went through 2 charts, the examiner left the room, came back and accused me of "clearly lying about having committed a serious crime."  

he said his "boss told me to just have you go home now, I clearly failed the test."
After I refuted his claims of deception, he said
he thought I was a good guy so he wanted me to tell him what was bothering me so he could pass me.  

I kept on telling him I was truthful, this went back and forth for about 10 minutes and after this he told me to contact personnel in 3-4 weeks to see what I do next.

The whole thing took about an hour.

I don't know if I passed or failed the test, the examiner said I "failed" and I had a post test interrogation, but the examiner told me to call personnel in 3-4 weeks to find out my status.  Can someone help me?  I don't know what to do now.  Before the test I prepared myself by reading "The Lie Behind The Lie Detector" and I employed countermeasures but the examiner thought I was lying, or was bluffing to try and get a confession.

Any Feedback will be grealy appreciated.

[jasonbourne]

Anyone?

[EosJupiter]

jasonbourne,

My experience tells me you passed, but that is just based on your version of what happened.  As the polygrapher came back in on a fishing expedition and came up empty. Good going on your use of CM's as it proves again that preperations and planning beat this pseudo-science piece of crap. And they can't detect CM's ... contrary to the beliefs of our local lurking polygraphers. But only time will tell which way it goes. But I think the comment on personnel is a good sign.

Regards ....

[jasonbourne]

Eosjupiter,

Thanks for the feedback and the vote of confidence.  I believe that I passed but I won't know for sure until I get the notice.  The whole ordeal seemed a little bit short plus there was the fact that the examiner seemed to be going easy on me as far as interrogations go.  I'll keep you updated.

[EosJupiter]

Eosjupiter,

Thanks for the feedback and the vote of confidence.  I believe that I passed but I won't know for sure until I get the notice.  The whole ordeal seemed a little bit short plus there was the fact that the examiner seemed to be going easy on me as far as interrogations go.  I'll keep you updated.

jasonbourne,

I look forward to the update ... I hope its positive.

Regards ...