Developing confidential informants - Law enforcement agency training

Interested in one of our courses on how to proactively recruit and manage confidential informants? We will come to your agency and deliver a comprehensive course that will protect you and your agency and your confidential informants. The methods we will teach you are based in over 20 years of research and are based in sound psychology. If you want to get better results from the risks you are taking contact us about the training we can provide. The course includes the following topics:

Participants will be able to:

  • Explain the historical use of confidential informants and the negative consequences incurred.

  • Understand the differences in the meaning of the terms: confidential informant, human source and HUMINT.

  • Understand how personality traits affect a person’s behavior

  • Target, approach, and proactively recruit, confidential informants

  • Recognize the legal and ethical aspects of using informants.

  • Identify different types of an informant.

  • Understand motivation theory and how to apply it in the source context.

  • Apply compliance gaining techniques.

  • Keep effective records.

  • Update the source file and closing policies

  • Identify and manage risks associated with deploying sources.

  • Extract the maximum amount of information using cognitive interviewing techniques.

Regardless of what you are investigating drugs, organized crime or terrorism this the best training you will ever get on this subject. Guaranteed.