Law enforcement officers in undercover roles, working with informants and in police interviews, use deception to uncover critical evidence in criminal investigations. Therefore, lie production is a critical skill for these law enforcement officers. However, current selection processes for police assigned to these areas do not include tests to identify effective storytellers (liars), as standardised and reliable tests for this do not exist, despite the fact that the ability to lie is exceedingly important for both operational effectiveness and officer safety. This pilot study investigates the lie production abilities of 84 undergraduate students from an Australian university. Student scores in a game of deception were compared with their scores on the 100-item version of the HEXACO-PI-R (Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience), a measure of personality traits, to explore relationships between deception abilities and personality traits. Results indicate that fairness, sincerity, honesty-humility, sentimentality, social boldness and creativity were associated with lie production ability, while sociability and diligence were predictive of successful truth telling. Further research is required to validate these results in the law enforcement population. Notably, the findings did not support the existence of a relationship between lie production and lie detection ability, suggesting these are two separate skills.

执法人员担任卧底、与线人合作并在警方讯问中使用欺骗手段来发现刑事调查中的关键证据。因此，谎言制作是这些执法人员的一项关键技能。然而，目前分配到这些地区的警察的选拔过程不包括识别有效讲故事者（说谎者）的测试，因为不存在对此进行标准化和可靠的测试，尽管说谎的能力对于操作效率和操作效率都非常重要。官员安全。这项试点研究调查了来自澳大利亚大学的 84 名本科生的谎言制造能力。学生在欺骗游戏中的分数与他们在 100 项版本的 HEXACO-PI-R（诚实-谦逊，情感性、外向性、随和性、责任心和对经验的开放性），衡量人格特质，探索欺骗能力和人格特质之间的关系。结果表明，公平、真诚、诚实-谦逊、多愁善感、社交胆识和创造力与谎言生产能力相关，而社交和勤奋与谎言制造能力相关。预示着成功的说真话。需要进一步研究以在执法人员中验证这些结果。值得注意的是，研究结果不支持测谎能力和测谎能力之间存在关系，这表明这是两种独立的技能。