John Buckley
Confidential Informant Training - From us, ...

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.

Narcotics informants

Confidential informant compromise - Police Negligence.

Here is a story about the compromise of a list of informants names from Nevada’s Record Courier. A worker in the state’s information technology department, was able to open the file containing the names, addresses and even photos of the informants. If informants are being managed properly this should not be possible. It is negligence on the part of the agency managing the informants. We are putting people’s lives in great danger.

Confidential Informant Management goes wrong

Another story relating to confidential informant ( human source, HUMINT, CHIS) management that we can all learn from. This news story from Florida makes for sad reading as we see how an officers career has been destroyed and the reputation of the Drug Enforcement Agency dragged down with it