Course Overview
A three-day course in the development, management, deployment, and exploitation of human intelligence sources in modern investigations. Built for personnel who run confidential informants and controlled field activity.
Who It Is For
Law enforcement officers, task force personnel, investigators, and agency teams responsible for developing and handling human sources, planning controlled operations, and coordinating field activity. Enrollment is restricted to verified law enforcement, military, and government personnel.
What You Will Be Able To Do
- Identify and assess potential informants
- Establish and maintain CI relationships ethically and effectively
- Plan and conduct controlled field operations with CI participation
- Coordinate surveillance support for investigative objectives
- Maintain proper documentation and reporting standards
- Recognize and mitigate operational risk and compromise indicators
Course Structure
Foundations and Informant Management
- Human source doctrine, categories, and the full source lifecycle
- Informant assessment across placement, access, suitability, and susceptibility
- Source motivation and the dynamics of effective handling
- Legal foundations, including the Fourth Amendment, probable cause, corroboration, discovery, and entrapment
- Aguilar-Spinelli, Illinois v. Gates, and Franks v. Delaware applied to affidavit discipline
- Sensitization versus tasking, communication boundaries, and documentation standards
Field Operations
- Controlled buys with pre and post operational procedures
- Field operational planning, risk assessment, and contingencies
- Surveillance integration and coordination
- Wanted person and point-out operations
- Operational debriefing and actionable intelligence development
- Failure analysis, source compromise indicators, and recovery
Practical Exercises
- Live operational scenarios and decision-making under pressure
- Operational briefings and after-action reviews
- Documentation evaluated against professional standards
- Scenario rotation from initial source meet through controlled operation and search warrant point-out
Instructor
Developed and taught by an operator with extensive experience in confidential informant operations, controlled field activity, mobile surveillance instruction, and military human intelligence.
Approach
Built on a single standard: every operation must survive scrutiny. Instruction balances operational effectiveness with legal survivability, emphasizing preparation over improvisation, documentation that protects investigations, and disciplined decision-making in the field.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.