“Cops bought booze, lap dances during undercover strip club probe…” makes for an interesting headline in the New York Post but the whole story raises a lot of questions for the police department involved. More importantly it creates a learning opportunity for other law enforcement agencies when it comes to accountability and record keeping in undercover operations.
Confidential Informants - A gateway to corruption
This article discusses alleged police corruption in the management of confidential informants. (CHIS, Human Sources, HUMINT) It asks a number pf pertinent questions and discussed how a police department may leave an officer vulnerable to corruption. As the article shows informant management is a a high risk business. Officers are at significant risk of being led into a corrupt relationship if they are not trained and supervised properly.
What makes a confidential informant manager trustworthy - HUMINT Skills
Here are a number of traits that anyone involved in managing confidential informants (Human source, HUMINT, Covert Human Intelligence Source, CHIS) should have. A source should always find that the officer responsible for their safety(the Handler) is trustworthy. If someone is going to be a competent source Handler then these are the elements supervisor’s should look for.
Confidential informant laws
Maximising the quantity and quality of intelligence from confidential informants.
Details of a police training course dealing with maximising the quality and quantity of intelligence obtained from a confidential informant. The 40 hour course improves the abilities of officers to obtain information and improves the veracity of that information. A must for anyone managing informants..
