Confidential Informants: Managing & Controlling
The use of confidential informants is a necessary tool to achieve success in a variety of criminal investigations, especially narcotics investigations. Therefore, it is crucial that every new investigator fully understands the basic principles of managing and controlling informants, as well as understanding the importance of effective informant cultivation techniques and vetting. Informant selection, debriefing (interviewing), vetting, management, deployment, and officer safety will be instructed in this course. Additionally, the importance of defined policies, court expectations, problematic behaviors by informants, avoiding mistakes when handling informants, and effective informant deactivation will be discussed.
This training program will cover the following topics:
- Informants versus Sources and Informants versus Confidential Informants
- The usefulness of confidential informants in criminal investigations
- Types of informants and their motivations
- Guidelines for informant selection
- Informants debriefing (interviewing) process and evaluation
- Importance of policies and procedures establishing usage of informants
- Vetting informants
- Effectively managing meetings and controlled purchases with informants
- Compensation process for confidential informants
- Maintenance of informant confidentiality and the court process
- Recognizing and avoiding mistakes and problematic behaviors with informants
- Common issues with informants and when/how to terminate informants
- Officer/Investigator safety when dealing with informants
11 AM to 1 PM Central Time, ZOOM
INSTRUCTOR: Sgt. Randy Osburn (retired) spent over 28 years with the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office in Wichita, Kansas. Most of his career was spent working in narcotics investigations, including assignments as an undercover detective, drug investigator, DEA Task Force Officer, and nine years as the narcotics unit supervisor. Sgt. Osburn has extensive experience conducting complex narcotics investigations, conspiracy investigations, informant cultivation and management, undercover drug buys, and planning tactical operations. He is a primary instructor for narcotics-related training courses for the Kansas Narcotics Officers Association (KNOA), Homefront Protective Group Law Enforcement Training, and the Midwest Counterdrug Training Center.
NOTE: This course is available to be viewed as a video on demand for those unable to attend on the day of the course.
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