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.

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Informants, alleged corruption and systemic failures.

A report on a case we are following closely from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, about the trial of a former police officer and his relationship with a number of confidential informants. Allegations of consensual sexual relationships, rape and the supply of heroin to an informant are all in there. While the accused guilt of innocence is, for our purposes, academic, the allegations point to a systemic failure to manage informants safely.

Careless or negligence - managing confidential informants

An article relating to the compromise of a person whom the police wanted to use as a confidential informant and a discussion around how such problems can be avoided. It relates to a woman suing a police agency because of her details being compromised on an answering machine.

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

Confidential Informants Review of Houston Police Narcotics Unit

An article on the need for police chiefs to review their existing structures for the management of confidential informants. the article discusses a recent review of Houston Police Departments narcotics unit following a fatal shooting.

Confidential Informant Book - The Human Source Management System

Probably the best book in the world about how to safely recruit and manage confidential informants, HUMINT, covert human intelligence sources (CHIS) . Only available to law enforcement.