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.

CHIS Training

Confidential Informant and Wrongful convictions - Painful to watch

Poorly managed confidential informants can lead to wrongful convictions. Here is our commentary on the KSAT 12 documentary ‘A Necessary Evil’: The Cost of Confidential Informants,” It makes for painful watching for any law enforcement officer. who knows how to manage confidential informants properly. It provides suggestions as to how to make sure law enforcement agencies have adequate training, systems and software solutions to mage informants properly.

Protecting confidential informant identities -breaches risk lives.

A discussion around the need to protect the true identities of confidential informants. Will be of interest to police officer interested in protecting informant identities.

Dozens of cases dismissed because of confidential informant corruption.

A story from the Chicago Tribune relating to the impact of the misuse of confidential informants. (CHIS, HUMINT, Confidential Human Sources) Two officers were convicted of offences relating to the misuse of informants and now questions have been raised over many of the cases they have been involved in. this article details how to make sure this does not happen in other police departments and gives an indication of the costs involved.

HUMINT and CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT and HUMAN SOURCE - The differences

An explanation of the similarities and differences in the terms HUMINT, confidential informant, human source, and covert human intelligence source (CHIS). Discusses the training involved for each function.

Confidential Informant Management - The Need for Dedicated Source Units

An extract from our forthcoming publication HUMAN SOURCES: MANAGING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS. It will be out in July and details the structures need to manage human sources safely and more effectively In the meantime here is a section on the need to mage sources using dedicated officers in Dedicated Source Units.

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.