Confidential Informant (Human Source) Management Training
(Covert Human Intelligence Source CHIS / HUMINT management)
Given that we have been actively researching the recruitment and management of confidential informants for over 20 years it is hardly surprising that HSM Training are world leaders when it comes to the delivery of training pertaining to human sources (confidential informants, Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS), HUMINT management). To ensure that students get the a maximum learning from courses.we provide those attending with a book/books relevant to the training they are getting. Just one of the aspects that puts us ahead of the competition.
When it comes to learning about cultivating and utilizing confidential informants, we challenge you to find any other training provider anywhere in the world, that can give you both the depth and breadth of training that we can provide. We have both the underpinning theoretical knowledge and the real world experience to teach your officers how to recruit and manage high level confidential informants. The behavior of officers will be changed by the training.
Our advanced proactive recruitment course teaches how to recruit confidential human sources involved in organised crime and terrorism. Officers are taught how to target individuals for recruitment using well established psychological principles. This is the most advanced training available to law enforcement anywhere in the world.
As we realize that no customer’s needs are exactly the same as any others all our courses are bespoke. This ensures that the customer gets the training they need and at a price they can afford. We provide courses relating to all aspects of informant management, from a basic course to get your agency started to the most advanced training of its type available anywhere in the world today.
Depending on the level of course taught content may include, record keeping, motivation, risk management, proactive targeting and recruitment, tasking, cognitive debriefing, and field-craft.
All courses have varying degrees of content relating to the psychology of human source management and all contain role play exercises. Our advance courses focus on the psychology of informant management a topic most other courses fail to address.
As many of the leading agencies are now selecting officers who are permitted to undertake the difficult and dangerous role of managing confidential informants (human sources), our courses can contain an assessment element to test student aptitude for the role.
Here is an example of one of the courses we provide for officers new to managing confidential informants (human sources)
Confidential Informant Management Course – Entry Level
Confidential Informant management is a high risk area of law enforcement but one that is essential for a law enforcement agency to undertake if it is going to be successful in combating high volume crime, organised crime and terrorism. Confidential Informants are often referred to as, informers, human intelligence sources and numerous other more derogatory terms. It is now widely recognised that the managing confidential informants is an arduous and high risk activity with officers involved in this business area requiring extensive training and high levels of supervision. This course seeks to provide officers involved in managing confidential informants with the basic skills to manage a confidential informant in compliance with legislation and recognised international good practice. The course will include both theoretical aspects of the role together with practical role plays to demonstrate an officer’s ability to carry out the functions required.
Course Aim
The aim of the course is to introduce participants to the basic requirements of managing confidential informant in a law enforcement context.
Course Learning Objectives
At the end of the course participants will be able to:
Describe the function of confidential informants within the context of intelligence led policing.
State the definition of a confidential informant and identify three operational types of confidential informant.
Detail the records that need to be maintained for effective confidential informant management.
Explain the basic elements of how to motivate and control a confidential informant.
Carry out a standard meeting with a confidential informant.
Training Methods
Interactive lectures, power point presentation, exercises and student role plays.
Course Duration
The basic course lasts 5 days. If someone tells you they can teach this in one or two days ignore them - they are fooling themselves. It is the illusion of training.
Participants
The course is aimed at officers and first line supervisors who are or likely to be involved in managing confidential informants.
Training Staff
Training will be delivered by qualified international experts with extensive practical experience in the arena.
Course Materials and Requirements if delivered in your premises
Translation services (if required) for lecture delivery and for accompanying course materials.
Projector and screen for lecture delivery.
Course Cost
The typical cost for 15 students, hosted at your agency, is £6000 (plus expenses - travel and hotel)
Course Overview
Day 1
An introduction to human source management:
· Defining confidential informants and types of confidential informant
· Confidential informants in the context of ‘intelligence led policing’
· Structures for effective management
· The role of the handler and the supervisor.
Day 2
Record keeping and structures:
· Essential records
· Completing an application for authorization
· Managing risk
· Ethics, civil liberties and human rights
Day 3
Psychology of human source management:
· Confidential informant motivation
· Communication skills
· Conflict management
· Debriefing a confidential informant
Day 4
Field-craft:
· Meeting locations
· Communications
· Counter and anti surveillance
· Cover stories
Day 5
Practical exercise
· A full day scenario involving the management of a confidential informant.
