Polygraph Training

DOD Program Meets Standards But Expansion Requires Better Planning Gao ID: NSIAD-87-161 September 18, 1987

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) training program for polygraph examiners and its planned expansion.

GAO found that the polygraph training program meets or exceeds almost all available criteria, but DOD could improve its program by: (1) making faster progress in defining the role of its Polygraph Institute in its polygraph research; (2) developing a policy for nonfederal Institute students; (3) ensuring that the Institute does not have more instructors than it needs; and (4) ensuring that the Institute does not have more polygraph instruments than it needs.

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