About Us

ABOUT SA POLYGRAPH ACADEMY

THE COMPANY, OUR EXAMINERS & NETWORK

SA Polygraph Academy is a Polygraph testing and training centre with it’s headquarters in the Western Cape.
  • SA Polygraph Academy (SAPA) has a network of over 200 accredited examiners countrywide.
  • All our examiners are trained under the auspices of SAPAVSA and/or the American Polygraph Association (APA).
  • All are members of the South African Polygraph and Voice Stress Association (SAPAVSA).
  • All testing results are quality controlled at the HQ level, by skilled, senior forensic psychophysiologists.
  • Reports and invoices are issued from one central office, to maintain efficiency and simplicity in our chain of quality control.
  • SAPA is managed and staffed by accredited examiners and manufacturer certified instructors having combined experience spanning forty years.
  • We utilise Bio-feedback (BFP) and Voice Polygraph (VP) technology as deemed suitable for all classes of testing.

THE FOUNDER

CLIFTON COETZEE

Clifton Coetzee is one of SA’s leading authorities in the science of forensic psychophysiology having a career spanning over 30 years. Clifton is a manufacturer accredited polygraph Instructor and the developer of AVSAPRO, the only automated, digital voice polygraph system worldwide. Cliff has investigated fraud and deception in all it’s forms for over thirty years practicing and instructing polygraphy, voice-stress analysis, statement veracity analysis and forensic interviewing techniques.

Clifton’s first manual for forensic psychophysiologists and certified fraud examiners was catalogued by the FBI training academy in 2000.

His investigations included large scale bank and insurance fraud, usually committed by employees. Cliff received his training from former US and Israeli police and intelligence experts and has worked on behalf of listed IT logistics companies based in the UK, USA, Spain, Lebanon and Australia. He has also studied the work of many early experts in the field of statement analysis, the different techniques, applications, differing schools of thought; such as Statement Veracity Analysis, Credibility Based Content Analysis, Statement Content Analysis (SCAN) and Scientific Analysis as taught by Avi Sapir of the Laboratory for Scientific Interrogation Inc, Arizona, under the acronym ScAN.