The Trick to Building Rapport in a Tight Situation

Rapport building skills are essential for cops. In the street cop's world, rapport building often occurs in a fast-paced environment with many distractions. A new study on rapport building offers techniques to help cops build strong relationships that will facilitate the process of proactive policing. Rapport-building is a delicate dance between people who do not know each other.

Rapport building is the art of establishing trust with someone you meet. It’s important for investigators to maintain rapport with informants, witnesses, or suspects because it improves their ability to gather information. Rapport building can be as simple as using a person’s name and making eye contact–the small stuff goes a long way in establishing familiarity without being too intrusive as an interviewer.

Rapport building skills are essential for cops. In the street cop’s world, rapport building often occurs in a fast-paced environment with many distractions. A new study on rapport building offers techniques to help cops build strong relationships that will facilitate the process of proactive policing.
Rapport-building is a delicate dance between people who do not know each other.

As you know, we are often engaged in intense exchanges that can bring about feelings of stress, anger, frustration and powerlessness; in both you the officer and the person you are talking with.

This is why you need Rapport building for the street cop. Learn to be able to read people’s verbal and nonverbal messages with clarity so you can form productive relationships with them. By using these skills, you can build or restore rapport quickly after a person has tried to goad or provoke them into a fight-or-flight response.

Rapport Building for Law Enforcement is a course that was developed as an answer to you can better communicate with those you serve. It teaches the techniques and skills required to build strong, mutually respectful relationships with our community.
If you want to develop strong, mutually respectful relationships with your community and learn the skills and techniques necessary for building rapport, then take our Rapport Building for Law Enforcement.

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