June Monthly Meeting

June 3rd, 2026

Board and General Meeting

Board Meeting  4:00 - 5:30 (voting members welcome)

Networking 5:30 - 6:00

General Meeting 6:00 - 7:00

Speaker: 

Bob Shaffer

LSAT Investigative Statement Analysis

"I have been a student and instructor of linguistic statement analysis since 1998. LSAT is an incredibly interesting and valuable advanced investigative tool that all law enforcement, private investigation and corporate security should be educated in.

I have the honor of meeting and instructing several thousand highly-skilled investigators across the U.S. and abroad."

Instructor Lt. Bob Shaffer has been a police officer and sergeant for the Loveland Police Department in Loveland, Colorado since 1986.  Lt. Shaffer has completed over 200 hours of basic, advanced, and advanced mentoring instruction in modern statement analysis techniques.  He has been providing quality classroom training in statement analysis since 1997 throughout the U.S., Canada, the Asian Pacific, the Middle East and Mexico His LSAT skills are often solicited by law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. during their criminal investigations. Bob earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary Education from the University of Northern Colorado in 1981.  He spent six years teaching at the high school and junior college levels in addition to instructing law enforcement related topics extensively in local Colorado police academy programs. He has been featured as a guest speaker and numerous professional investigation conventions in the United States.  He is a member of the teaching staff of P.A.T.C., (the Public Agency Training Council), the Ohio Police Officer Training Academy in London OH, and is a member of the National Association of Investigative Specialists.  Course Objectives:  Investigative Statement Analysis is a discipline that is highly effective in the detection of deception, truthfulness and identification of hidden information in a subject’s written or spoken statements.

LSAT involves examining the word choice, structure and content of a subject’s statement to determine whether it is truthful or deceptive as opposed to the traditional emotional method of rationalizing the events in the subject’s story. 

Guests welcome to attend two free meetings per year.

Meeting in-person and on Zoom.

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