INFORMANTS: Development, Management, and Control
Course Length: 2 day (16 hours)
Coordinators: Katherine Argueta (727-692-4811)
Course Description: This 16-hour class is intended to teach investigators how to develop, manage, and control informants used for narcotic and criminal investigative purposes. The course includes an awareness component, covering the critical information investigators need to know before using informants and during operations, to ensure the safety of all, while building successful prosecutable cases. This course addresses the many potential pitfalls that can arise when using informants and how to prevent criminal and civil liability for the agency as well as internal discipline for the investigator that could lead to termination. Course topics include, but are not limited to, the following: who qualifies as an informant; recruitment techniques for informants; implementing an informant policy; common methods of using an informant; the risk associated with using an informant; and understanding the informant’s motivations.
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