I was asked yesterday has to what makes confidential informant (Human Source) training provided by HSM Training different from other providers. I wasn’t quite sure where to start. Then it dawned on me that it doesn’t actually start with us, it starts with the customer and what they need. And what they need is not always what they want.
When things go wrong in policing chances are the taxpayer is going to end up paying to get the mistakes fixed. Here is a news report relating to New Bedford Police and fixing their issues around informant management. This follows a not of press coverage including a well worth listening to podcast from the Boston Globe.