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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, January 22, 1998
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Spring '98 Information Fair
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No lie: Police update polygraph
KU department gets new tool to perform test for truthfulness
By Laura Roddy
lroddy@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Lt. Vie Strnad of the KU police department does not take kindly to lies.
Stradr, the only certified polygrapher in Douglas County, performs about 40 polygraph tests each year to determine if his subjects are telling the truth — and he has a new machine to help him.
The police department's month-old computerized polygraph machine replaced the machine the department had owned since 1985.
Strnad said he had not performed a test using the new polygraph machine but had done several practice rounds.
"I'm still trying to get the fundamentals down," he said.
Strad performs the polygraph examinations for the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, the Lawrence Police Department, the Lawrence Fire Department, the district attorney's office and occasionally for other counties.
Strad said that, if used properly, the polygraph could be a valuable instrument.
"You can lie to anybody you want to, but you can't lie to yourself." Strmad said. "You can't beat the polygraph instrument. You can only beat the examiner."
Strad, who has worked for the University since 1969, became certified as a polygrapher in 1985 after completing a seven-week course at the Backster School of Lie Detection in San Diego.
Strnad said polygraph testing was not admissible as evidence in Kansas unless both attorneys agreed to it.
Sgt. Susan Hadl of the Lawrence Police Department said the polygraph was a tool that helped her department, although it was not used frequently.
A polygraph test records a subject's breathing, movement patterns, blood pressure and perspiration in response to yes or no questions. Strnad said the average test lasted anywhere from one and a half to two hours.
A subject spends only 15 minutes hooked up to the
"It is a wonderful asset to the community to have Lt. Strad available," Hadl said.
University of Kansas Police Lt. Vic Stradl talks to a subject before administering a sample polygraph test. Stradl is the only person in Douglas County certified to administer a polygraph test. Photo by Geoff Krieger/KANSAN
polygraph machine, Strnad said. The rest of the examination involves a pretest and question formulation.
Subjects are advised of their rights at the beginning of the test and must sign a waiver. Strnad said taking a polygraph was voluntary.
All the questions are gone over word for word in advance. There are no tricks or surprises here" he said. "We're here to find the truth."
Stradn is a member of numerous polygraph associations and serves as the president of the Kansas Polygraph Association. He said he tried to attend a national seminar annually to keep up-to-date.
"My agency, the University of Kansas police department, is very good about it," Strnad said. "It increases my credibility and the credibility of my department."
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