January. 2004

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On January 14, 2004, the president of Steele attended the New Year Bender held by Beijing Municipal Chamber of Commerce.

On January 5, 2004, the president of Steele was interviewed by <International Aviation Newspaper> and a report, named <Business Investigation is not ‘Business Detective’>, has been published in the magazine.

The president of Steele was invited by CII to attend its 2004 Annual Conference in Alexander , Virginia , US .

In 2004, ACFE will hold many global anti-fraud conferences, including Canadian anti-fraud conference, European anti-fraud conference, Pacific anti-fraud conference and Hong Kong anti-fraud conference.

Steele and its president were introduced in the Biography Column of WIN’s magazine.

From December 26 to 28, Steele had been holding a training meeting for all its staffs at Steele Recreation Center , on which the staffs reviewed the past year and made the new working projects and development program for 2004.

The 27th Polygraph Annual Conference will be held from March 3 to 7, 2004 in Vancouver , Canada .  

In Chinese history, there was a method named ‘Wu Ting’, which was used in detecting truthfulness or deception of the suspicions by observing and estimating his or her statements, breath, expression, hearing, and expressions in his/her eyes. At the end of the 19th century, Ceuare Lombroso, an Italian criminal law expert, used physiology testing technique in polygraph, and at the beginning of the 20th century, an American policeman named Keele manufactured and utilized a polygraph instrumentation. In China , Polygraph was started at the end of the 20th century. Nowadays, polygraph technique has been used widely in the police and the judicial departments in China . Based on the practical experience, the degree of accuracy of Polygraph reaches 98 percent. In Shandong Province , Polygraph has been used in over 50 percent police stations. However, Polygraph has not been used in the filed of civil and commercial affairs, in which the domestic demand of Polygraph is actually increasing. By the result of polygraph examination, an enterprise may make more accurate and rational management projects, accordingly advancing its development. Therefore, the market of nongovernmental polygraph service in China is big and its prospect is quite bright.

§What is Polygraph?§ Polygraph is named by the ‘polygraph instrumentation’, which can record many physiology reflection indexes. By those records, a polygraph examiner can analyze the examinee’s psychological condition, thus estimating whether he or she is involved in a criminal case. Generally, the criminal of a case intends to lie, so the technique is popular called ‘lie-detection’. In fact, it is the changing of the physiology reflection that is tested by the technique rather than the deception made by the examinees.

§What are the components of a polygraph instrumentation?§ It is composed by a computer, a mainframe and the transducers. The main transducers include the electrodermal activity transducer, the pneumograph, the cardiograph recorder, and blood pressure transducer.

§What are the theoretical bases of Polygraph?§ The theory of psychology, physiology and the exchange principle.

§Under which conditions the examinees can not undergo an examination?§ under the following conditions, the examinees can not undergo an examination: hungry, tired, too cold or hot, after having alcohol, drug addict, catch a cold, have a fever, heartbreaking, taking nerve-inhibiting medicines within 12 hours,  suffers heart disease or psychosis as well as the over 3 months pregnant women, children under 13 years old and the quarter-witted persons.

<Polygraph Science> is edited based on <The Complete Polygraph Handbook>, which is written by STAIN ABRAMS, the famous polygraph expert and psychologist of USA . The book has been translated into many languages and is used as the first reference for the polygraph examiners. It must will be useful in China too.

Innocent persons protection≡ According to the crisis in the company, the innocent persons can be excluded and protected by the polygraph examination taken by all involved employees.

Loyalty Confirmation≡ This service can be used in estimating comprehensive abilities, ethics and loyalty of employees on the important positions in a company.

Behavior Identification≡ This service is mostly used in solving the conflict of the evidence that occurs in business and civil investigation. By polygraph examination, the statements of the involved parties can be tested and evaluated, accordingly the examination results can be used as the quasi-proofs to support related evidence.

Based on some research, the history of human being’s lie-detection was started in BC 900 and there has been various ‘techniques’ of lie-detection:

Boiling Water Technique: A thief had to put one of his/her fingers into the boiling water or oil. If his/her finger was hurt, it would show that he was lying. How superstitious and cruel the method was!

Holy Monkey Technique: It was said that there was a kind of holy monkey in India . If a liar touched its tail, it would scream loudly, while if an honest person touched its tail, it would be quiet. In fact, some psychological theory was used in the method. The judge daubed some carbon powder on an ordinary monkey’s tail before putting it into a dark room, and then let the suspicions touch the monkey’s tail one by one. Because the liar was afraid of the monkey and wouldn’t touch it, while the honest persons were not and dared touch the monkey’s tail. Therefore, the persons with carbon powder on hands were certainly the men of honor.

Chewing Rice Technique: Each suspicion was demanded to chew a handful of rice and then spit out. Because the liar was lack of saliva, so the rice he/she spit out was obviously drier than that of the honest persons. Actually some physiological theories were utilized in the method.

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