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The Polygraph Examiners Union of Ukraine (SPU) runs certified lie detector tests in Birmingham — at our room on Victoria Square or at an address of your choosing, anywhere from the city centre out through the Black Country. The preliminary conclusion is given to you the same day.
The standard private lie detector test in Birmingham is £365: one person, one topic, 1.5–2.5 hours taking the interview and the testing together, with accuracy of 95–98%. Sessions are held at Victoria Square House, Victoria Square, Birmingham B2 4AJ, or wherever suits you better — a house in Sutton Coldfield, a unit in Tyseley, a meeting room in Solihull. The examiner tells you the preliminary outcome in person before you leave, and the signed report reaches you inside 3–5 business days at no extra charge. Online sessions cost £150. Examiners working under the SPU name are entered on the official Register of Polygraph Examiners of Ukraine. Nothing is charged for the initial discussion.
Nobody phones on the first day. The call comes once the matter has been raised, denied, raised again and left to sit, and once it has become obvious that one more conversation will produce exactly what the last four produced. These are the requests we hear most often in this city.
More of our work in this city involves a family business than anywhere else we operate. Firms passed down two or three generations, with cousins on the payroll and an uncle who has always done the books, are a genuine strength until the day a figure does not add up. Then there is no clean way through: dismissing someone means dismissing a relative, and reporting it means reporting one. The question stops being commercial before anyone has finished asking it.
Manufacturing, workshops and haulage supply the second strand. Small operations with real physical stock — components, metals, finished goods, fuel — where losses are counted rather than logged and a discrepancy can run for months before anybody is certain it is a pattern rather than bad paperwork.
The third comes from how households here are put together. Extended families living close by, often several adults contributing to one pot, produce disputes about money that no court would ever hear and no relative can arbitrate. An accusation made at a family gathering has a long life in a city where everyone will be in the same room again at the next one.
The first task is agreeing, word for word, what will be asked. Nothing reaches the test that you have not read and accepted beforehand. It occupies more of the appointment than anything else and it shapes the outcome more than anything else.
Sitting the test is a choice, and it is documented as one. The person being examined may halt proceedings whenever they wish, and is told so before any equipment goes near them.
Breathing, cardiovascular activity and skin conductance are measured while the agreed questions run through several standardised sequences. Nothing is painful and nothing is invasive.
Charts are interpreted on the spot and the preliminary conclusion is given to you face to face. The signed written report follows within 3–5 business days.
A single sum for a standard examination rather than time on a clock, so the cost is known before anything is arranged. The conversation beforehand is free of charge, and the written report belongs to the price rather than arriving as an extra. What is charged here is the national rate: no premium for the city, and no fee for the examiner's journey anywhere in the West Midlands.
| Format | What it covers | Price, GBP |
|---|---|---|
| Standard lie detector examination | A single person on a single topic; interview and testing occupy 1.5–2.5 hours; signed report included | £365 |
| Online-format examination | For situations where the people concerned live in different countries | £150 |
| Testing in a foreign language | Applied where the session has to run outside the examiner's working languages | +£70 |
| Multi-topic or corporate examination | Several people, a company matter, or scheduling that has to be cleared for | Quoted individually |
Nearly everything ordered privately sits at that sum. It takes in a dispute inside the family, a pre-marriage examination, work instructed by a legal representative and an appointment held at your own premises. Where a role needs a screening examination, the quote is drawn up on its own, since the workload rises with each additional candidate.
The table is where the conversation starts. The figure you pay is agreed at the consultation, once the number of questions and the number of people are clear.
The work is divided between examiners certified by the union and local partners who follow identical protocols and the identical consent procedure. There is a reason no names appear on this site: much of what we handle is private by definition and the people who commission it prefer it stays that way. The identity of the examiner attending is confirmed to you ahead of the date.
Takes on cases where a business — frequently one where the people involved are also related — needs a single fact established rather than a general sense of who is at fault. Works with the owner to reduce a broad worry to a question a test can genuinely answer, which is the stage most such enquiries never reach.
Takes the appointments that people put off for months before making. Devotes more time to the pre-test interview than the recording itself lasts, because the difficult part of a private case is compressing a long history into three or four questions that can be answered plainly.
A second-generation building supplies business found roughly eleven thousand pounds unaccounted for across a year. Three family members had signing rights and none of them could be asked directly without ending Sunday lunches for good. The founder eventually put it to all three, including himself, that they each sit an examination on the same questions. All agreed. The finding pointed to none of them and instead to a payment routine that a long-serving office manager had been operating on an instruction given verbally in 2019 and never revisited. The firm stayed a family one.
A small workshop lost a consignment of finished pieces somewhere between the bench and the courier. Four people had handled it, the insurer wanted a police report, and the owner did not want to put four names in front of the police on the strength of a gap in a ledger. Three of the four asked for the examination themselves once it was offered. The session narrowed the window to a collection slot and to a courier's driver who was never an employee at all, which is where the insurer's investigation then went.
A letter arrived at a bride's parents' house making a specific allegation about the groom. It named nothing that could be checked and everything that could not be forgotten. The couple came in together, wrote four questions with the examiner over an hour and a half, and he sat the test that afternoon. The result did not identify who sent the letter — that was never within reach — but it took the allegation off the table well enough for two families to sit on the same side of a church.
A haulier with nine vehicles was seeing fuel spend drift about fifteen per cent above what the mileage justified. Telematics showed nothing conclusive and accusing drivers without proof would have emptied the yard in a fortnight. The company offered voluntary examinations, stated plainly in writing that declining carried no consequence, and seven of nine took them up. Two of the seven were the source, and both left by agreement. What mattered as much to the owner was that the other five stopped feeling watched.
What arrives here is often something the person has told nobody at all. Discretion in this work means a written procedure with steps that can be pointed to, not a promise made on the doorstep.
CQT and CIT protocols run to standard on professional equipment
Victoria Square, or any address in the West Midlands at no added cost
Given to you in person; the signed document follows in 3–5 business days
Signed consent, a closed room and a confidentiality procedure that is written down
Examiners on the public register, answerable to the union rather than themselves
Fixed before the appointment, with the report already inside the figure
Putting an examination forward is open to any employer; obliging someone to sit one is not. The person tested must choose it freely, must give informed consent on paper, and everything captured during the session is personal data with the duties that follow. Firms in this city apply testing to a short list of situations and no more: pinning down a single incident that has already been identified, offering voluntary screening where a post carries responsibility for stock, money or customer records, and running agreed periodic checks that nobody is ambushed with. The outcome feeds into a judgement made by people. It is not a shortcut around a fair procedure, and no examiner worth their fee will let an employer treat it as one.
Testing a group. From five respondents upwards we work to a case rate and arrange the schedule around your operating hours — commonly early starts or a weekend day at your own premises. Send a message and you will have a reply the same day.
Our room is at Victoria Square House, Victoria Square, Birmingham B2 4AJ, a few minutes from New Street and simple to reach from any direction. Just as commonly the examiner comes to you instead: the city centre and the Jewellery Quarter, Edgbaston, Harborne, Moseley, Selly Oak, Erdington, Kings Heath, Sutton Coldfield and Solihull, and outward through Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley, West Bromwich and Halesowen, along with Redditch and Bromsgrove. For a good many clients an appointment at their own address is straightforwardly the easier option.
Any quiet room with a door that closes, roughly 10 m², will do the job: a room at home, a meeting room, a rented office, a hotel room. Two hours without interruption and a door that shuts are the whole requirement; the building itself is beside the point. Cases in other parts of the country run on identical terms — nationwide lie detector testing sets those out.
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Private testing undertaken voluntarily is lawful, and what you are left holding is a signed document from a certified examiner. The courts of England and Wales do not, however, regard lie detector findings as evidence in the ordinary sense, and no such report will carry a case by itself. Placed beside other material — in a private dispute, a negotiation, a family matter, a decision reached inside a company — it does the job our Birmingham clients need doing. Where proceedings are a real possibility, discuss the format with your solicitor before booking and the examination will be built to suit.
There is no way to prepare, and that is genuinely the case rather than a form of words. Sleep as normal, keep away from alcohol and sedatives the day before, have your usual breakfast, and leave enough time that the ring road does not dictate how the morning goes. Prescribed medication presents no difficulty — mention it during the interview and it is accounted for, as it is week in and week out.
Anxiety is normal and it does not distort the outcome. You will have signed off every question long before it is put to you, and separating ordinary nerves from a concealment response is the whole point of the methodology. The one thing that genuinely interferes is deliberate breath control, which the charts record clearly and which has never helped anybody. Should you want the mechanics explained first, we set them out in how a lie detector works.
£365 for the standard examination — one person, one topic, 1.5–2.5 hours, with the signed report inside that figure. The online format is £150, and a session outside the examiner's working languages adds £70. Where several people or several topics are involved, the case is quoted separately after the free consultation. Nothing is added for the city and travel across the West Midlands is not charged.
Generally the examiner travels rather than you. Sessions take place at Victoria Square House in B2, or at an address you name — Edgbaston, Harborne, Moseley, Erdington, Sutton Coldfield, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley and West Bromwich among them. The only requirement is a closed room of about 10 m², at home, in a rented office or in a hotel.
Allow somewhere between an hour and a half and two and a half. The interview beforehand accounts for more of that than the recording does, because every question has to be worded and approved with you first. Nobody leaves without hearing the preliminary finding, and the signed document arrives 3–5 business days later.
Between 95 and 98 per cent, on three conditions: the protocols used are the standardised CQT and CIT, the equipment is professional, and the person sitting the test is in a condition to be tested at all. The figure degrades badly when a question is drawn too widely to carry a yes or a no — and that, rather than anything technical, is what the interview exists to prevent.
Not in the way ordinary evidence is used. Polygraph findings do not have that standing before the courts of England and Wales, and a report by itself will not resolve anything a judge has to decide. Its real value is corroborative: put beside other material, particularly in disputes and negotiations settled privately, it carries weight. Anyone facing possible proceedings should agree the format with their solicitor first.
They cannot. The offer may be made; the obligation cannot be created. Consent has to be informed, written and freely given, and a refusal proves nothing whatsoever about the person refusing. If the consent in front of us looks manufactured we hand the instruction back — and we make that point to the employer, never to the member of staff.
Only where a parent or guardian has consented in writing, stays in the room for the duration, and the young person is willing. Quite often the interview makes clear that what is really being asked about is a conflict within the family rather than a question a test could settle — when that happens we say so and recommend against going any further.
It can, for £150, and that is generally how cases spanning two countries are handled. Neither the interview nor the consent procedure differs. Our advice where an in-person appointment is feasible is still to take it — a camera gives the examiner a head and shoulders, not a person.
Write out what has happened and we will give you a straight view on whether testing can settle it. No charge for that, and no obligation either way.
A name and one contact detail is enough. The same day you will have dates that are open and a price that will not move. Anything urgent is better sent by WhatsApp or Telegram — those are seen first.
Address: Victoria Square House, Victoria Square, Birmingham B2 4AJ
Email: contact@polygraph-spu.com
Hours: daily, 06:00–20:00
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