This course instructs new and experienced officers in the efficient, safe, and legal protocols for developing, managing, and deploying confidential informants in narcotics cases. Officers will be taught to identify and avoid potential “problem” informants and integrity issues. Developing and using a variety of informants, such as informants working off a new arrest, a sentence reduction, jail and prison inmates, probationers, parolees, paid informants, other officers’ informants, and other categories, will be covered in this class. Briefing, debriefing, and interviewing informants will be instructed. The registration process, cooperation letters, informant contracts, payment paperwork, informant testimony, and other topics will be covered in this class. Officer safety, informant safety, and informant integrity will be emphasized.

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