Here is a story from Georgia that gives me some cause for concern. It is about a police officer convicted for misconduct in relation to the management of a confidential informant. While it is difficult in such cases to make a judgement without knowing all the facts the one thing that jumps out here is that it is agreed by all the officer’s intentions were good.
This makes me think that the officer has been left exposed because his agency did not have the structures in place to manage informants safely and properly.
If an agency has good structures officers are much less likely to fall into the situation where it seems like a good idea to break the rules to get results. This is because there is intrusive supervision, proper structures and all the officers have had appropriate training. (By appropriate training we don’t meant a one or two day course.)
These issues occur far to often because there is a pervasive belief that any officer can manage informants and that they do not need any training to do so,
If you think that you are being left exposed by your agency drop us a note and we can discuss the risks info@hsmtraining.com
