3-Day Informant Management Course (IMC) for Law Enforcement:
3-Day Informant Management Course (IMC)
The Four Segment Series of the IMC Presented Over Three Days are Summarized Below:
Training Location: TBD in Montgomery County, TX (Near the I-45 and Conroe Corridor) Cost $600.
Course Description: The 3-day Informant Management Course curriculum is a four-course series focusing on Confidential Informant (CI) Locating & Selecting, Assessment & Recruitment, Handling & Development, Report Writing, and Evaluation. A summary of all four courses is visible below the red and blue buttons.
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Over the 3-day training curriculum, attendees will individually, or in group format, interactively participate in: Two Screening and Rating exercises selecting two Potential Confidential Informants (PCI) for further evaluation, a classroom and off-site Elicitation exercise, four PCI Assessment and Recruitment interviews, an off-site Surveillance Detection exercise, a review of CI Contact and Meeting Plans, evaluating Specific CI Evidence and Intelligence Collection, reviewing eight written Reports of CI Interviews for submission to the investigative file, discussing CI Evaluation methods and take a 45-queston (multiple-choice/true-false) examination. A 24-hour Certificate of Completion will be provided to attendees who participate in all practical application exercises and obtain a passing score of 80% or better on the open-book exam.
3-Day Informant Management Course (IMC)
Training Location: TBD in Montgomery County, TX (Near the I-45 and Conroe Corridor) Cost $600.
Course Description: The 3-day Informant Management Course curriculum is a four-course series focusing on Confidential Informant (CI) Locating & Selecting, Assessment & Recruitment, Handling & Development, Report Writing, and Evaluation. A summary of all four courses is visible below the red and blue buttons.
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Over the 3-day training curriculum, attendees will individually, or in group format, interactively participate in: Two Screening and Rating exercises selecting two Potential Confidential Informants (PCI) for further evaluation, a classroom and off-site Elicitation exercise, four PCI Assessment and Recruitment interviews, an off-site Surveillance Detection exercise, a review of CI Contact and Meeting Plans, evaluating Specific CI Evidence and Intelligence Collection, reviewing eight written Reports of CI Interviews for submission to the investigative file, discussing CI Evaluation methods and take a 45-queston (multiple-choice/true-false) examination. A 24-hour Certificate of Completion will be provided to attendees who participate in all practical application exercises and obtain a passing score of 80% or better on the open-book exam.
Investigators utilizing solely Defendant CI's (Informants who have an agreement with the Department, District Attorney’s Office or U.S. Attorney's Office in exchange for cooperation in their investigation, or other investigations), will benefit from the analysis of CI motivations to work with them beyond the agreement the CI has with the Department.
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PLEASE REMEMBER TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE SCREENING AND RATING SHEET AND RECRUITMENT PROPOSITION DIAGRAM, BOTH FILLABLE SHEETS FOR USE WITH FUTURE POTENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS.
RECRUITMENT PROPOSITION DIAGRAM--FILLABLE FOR USE WITH FUTURE PCI'S
COURSE #1 - POTENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS: LOCATING AND SELECTING
Course #1 is the proactive approach to locating and screening the best Potential Confidential Informant (PCI) candidates for access, ability, willingness, discretion, 360 awareness, availability and suitability match to the Specific Informant Blueprint (SIB) prior to officer contact.
For investigators and analysts finding it challenging to locate PCI's to support investigations, Course #1 presents practical methods applying Limited Background Investigations, Specific Informant Blueprints (SIB), PCI Profile Reports and Screening and Rating Sheets to assist with locating and selecting the best PCI's when they are not immediately identifiable.
COURSE #2 - POTENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS: ASSESSMENT AND RECRUITMENT
Course #2 focuses on the utilization of a Recruitment Proposition Diagram (RPD), to develop a successful Confidential Informant (CI) recruitment strategy, assessing potential CI gains, losses, motivations, reluctance and rebuttals toward recruitment.
COURSE #3 - CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS: HANDLING AND DEVELOPMENT
Investigators searching for a plan to handle and develop CI's will gain new insights with the pre-determined Contact/Meeting Plan Map, minimizing issues with communication devices, officer and CI surveillance detection responsibilities, directing and verifying specific CI collection, the five pillars of a successful CI debriefing interview and the application of electronic surveillance devices.
Course #3 is the implementation of contact/meeting plans (locations, security protocols—officer/confidential Informant (CI) safety, contingencies, cover stories and communication devices), surveillance detection, electronic surveillance (recorders and transmitters) and the direction of evidence and intelligence collection.
COURSE #4 - CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS: REPORT WRITING AND EVALUATION
Course #4 refines the production of accurately written reports to the investigative file without revealing the identity of the Confidential Informant (CI) and indexing additional CI assessment data. Including all pertinent details in a report witnessed directly or indirectly (observed, heard/overheard) by a CI is a time on task perfected skill.
Regardless of the violation investigated (Narcotics, Auto-Theft, Vice, Robbery, Financial Crimes, etc.), all investigators will benefit from the production of accurately written reports to the investigative file, including all pertinent information pertaining to the investigation, limiting information potentially revealing the identity of the CI and cataloguing additional CI assessment data.