POLYGRAPHY
POLYGRAPHY
3 Emotional Recorded
Blood Pressure/Pulse Beats
Respiration
Galvanic Skin Reflex or “GSR”.
Components:
- Blood Pressure Cuff
- Sphygmomanometer
- Pump Bulb Assembly
2. Pneumograph – a rubberized corrugated tube about 7 inches in length fastened around the
subject’s ches and adomen.
Components:
- Rubber Convoluted Tube – 10 inches length
- Beaded Chain – another components of pneumograph assemblies
- Pneumograph Recording Unit – contributes respiratory changes, “Harold
Burtt 1910”, “Victorio Benussi 1914”.
3. Galvanograph – set of electrodes attached to the index finger and to the ring finger of he
left hand or the palmer or dorsal.
Components:
- Finger Electrodes Assembly
- Recording Per Unit – 7 inches
- Amplifier Unit – support galvanograph
- Sticker – 1897, studied the influence and relation of sweat glands to skin
resistance, “Varaguth 1907”
4. Keymograph – chart recording unit of the instrument drives the chart at the rate of 6
inches, space either at 1 inch. Represent 5 to the second.
Components:
- Paper Chart, 6 to 12 inches per minutes
- Approximately 100 ft. holes space ½ inches.
Parts of Keymograph
5. Chart – composed of 12 division
6. Rubber Roller
7. Paper Rail Roller
Kinds of Lies
White Lies or Benign Lie
Pathological Lie – idealistic lie
Red Lie – other belief
Black Lie – used by person to deceived others
Malicious or Judicious Lie
History of Polygraphy
Sir James Mackenzie
- Famous English Hear Specialist
- “The Ink Polygraph”
- 1908, British Medical System
Dr. Cesare Lumbroso
- 1895, Italian Criminologist
- Plethymograph and Sphygmomamograph
Victorio Benussi
- 1914, Experiments of Pneumograph for Deception and Detection
Harold E Burtt
- 1918, Respiratory Inhibition
John A Larson
- 1921, Blood Pressure, Pulse, Respiration
William Moulton Marston
- Sphygmomanometer attach blood pressure, Galvanometer, Skins, Resistance
Leonarde Keeler
- 1926. “GSR” introduce Card Test for control purposes, “BP, P, R ”
John E Ried
- 1945, Reid Polygraph, Reid control question technique.
POLYGRAPHY
1945, by Crime Lab. Of “MP”, Crime Lab. Sent Mr. Jose Navarro and Conrado
Dumlao to the U.S Polygraphy training in 1950, “NBI” sent Mr. Agustin Patricio train
Keeler Ploygraphy Institute. Lawyer Manuel C Raura also trained after he succeeds Mr.
Patricio Chief of Polygraphy Division of NBI Crime Lab. Personnel train in polygraph
Ernesto Lucena, Ms. Tessie Logan, Artenio Panganiban Jr.
Uses of Polygraph
Criminal Investigation
Pre – Employment Test & Screening
Periodic Personnel Check (Integrity)
Claim Verification Test (insurance compensation, benefits)
Loyalty test (intelligence and honesty)
Promotion
Pre Test Interview – preparing the subjects for the polygraph test. Duration last to 20 to
30 minutes.
Actual Test –
“Prior”
- 2 days to the examination
- Should not be hungry
- Should calm down
- Should have 5 hours of sleep prior of exam.
Interrogate Technique
Inform the subject
Convince the subject that the responses will be result from his emotion.
Test Procedure
Pre Test Interview
12 questioned prepared
3 charts taken each chart should not exceed 4 minutes.
Type of Test
General Question test – answered by YES or NO
Peak of Tension Test – refers to the series of question in which only one has a bearing on
the matter of investigation. Ans. NO.
Card Test – card shuffled by the examiner instruct the subject to ans. NO
Silent Answer Question – confirmatory test because the subject is afraid of the unfamiliar
and the unknown
Guilty Complex Test – the subject is overly responsive
Mixed Question Test – consist of an arrangement of first and third test question,
administered during the 4th exam which would guard by the subject
Limitation of Polygraphy
- It is only as accurate as the examiner is competent
- It is an aid and not a substitute for investigation
- It is a scientific diagnostic instrument which record responses
Polygraph Examiner – a person who capable of detecting deception with the use of
instrumentation or mechanical device.