Chances are if you are meeting a confidential informant (Human source, CHIS) your standard method of debriefing starts with:

“ Hi. How are you? What’s been happening?”

And then it spirals into a series of questions from which you elicit a limited amount of information that you thought the informant might know and the informant tells you an even smaller amount of information. This is based upon what they think you want to know, bounded by what they are prepared to tell you often interweaving it with deliberate and accidental omissions and deliberate and accidental deceptions.

And then we all go home and the officer sanitises the little they have collected based upon how much is of use to them and how much their manger is prepared to read. And even this is corrupted with other information the officer already knows and confabulation.

There is a much better way. At HSM Training we have constructed a systematic approach, based on academically proven techniques to obtain from a confidential human source the maximum amount of information in terms of both quality and quantity while at the same time building a stronger relationship with the informant to ensure the future production of more and better intelligence.

Why manage informants and get half or less of what you could be getting?

If you are interested get in touch and ask us about our Human Source Cognitive Debriefing Course? One week of learning, helping make you and your informants more productive.

For an agency hosting the event: Our standard course is one week for approximately 15 students. It involves theory and roleplay. Cost is based on an instructor daily rate, plus expenses for travel from London UK. [This works out at approximately 500USD per student for 40 hours of training.]