DWI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing • What is your middle name? • What are other unusual questions you can ask? Ask Unusual Questions

Session 6-Phase Two: Personal Contact

DWI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing

• What is your middle name?

• What are other unusual questions you

can ask?

Ask Unusual Questions

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The third technique, asking unusual questions, is employed after you have obtained the

driver's license and registration. Using this technique, you seek verifying information

through unusual questions. For example, while holding the driver's license, you might

ask the driver, "What is your middle name?"

There are many such questions which the driver normally would be able to answer

easily, but which might prove difficult if the driver is impaired, simply because they are

unusual questions. Unusual questions require the driver to process information; this can

be especially difficult when the driver does not expect to have to process information.

For example, a driver may respond to the question about the middle name by giving a

first name. In this case the driver ignored the unusual question and responded instead

to a usual -- but unasked -- question.Source: DWI Detection and

Standardized Field

Sobriety Testing

March 2013 Edition