Informant Program Management
Informant Program Development and Management
A Guide to Setting Up and Administering an Informant Program
Published June, 2005, by ICJE, Inc.
Copyright 2005, 69 pp.
ISBN 0-9704088-0-3
Price $25.00
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Features
Reviews the Types and characterizations of informants and benefits/liabilities
of each.
 Criminal Informants.Good Citizen Informants.Confidential Sources.How to Recruit and Train Informants.
Methods of recruitment for various types of informants.Methods of training for various types of informants.The potential for illegal conduct by the informant.Periodic informant performance evaluations.Best Techniques for Interviewing and Debriefing Informants.
Monitoring informant activity.Making assumptions about the information.Necessity for accurate reporting and record keeping.Preparing the Informant for Testimony.
Briefing prosecutors about informant's criminal records.Payment briefings prior to testifying.Technical considerations involving wires, recordings, etc.Testimony review.Preparing Control File Systems, including Administrative, Documentation and
Operational Files.
Importance of setting up the systems.Legal ramifications of secure systems.The need for all three types of file systems.Discussion and examples of each, with sample forms for opening, reporting, paying and closing informants.Interagency Informant Sharing.
Insuring confidentiality.Determining whether to share information and/or identity.Preventing a “hostile takeover” of the informant by another agency.Compensating Informants.
Need for record keeping.Sample receipt forms.Maintaining anonymity in the receipt systems.Necessity for witnesses.Using Informant Information in Affidavits.
Tests for informant credibility and reliability.Using split informant information in a single affidavit.Sample affidavits for a variety of situations.Liability Aspects for the Handling Officer and Department.
Civil and criminal liability for the handling officer.Civil and criminal liability for the supervisor.Civil and criminal liability for the department and department head.Implementing departmental policy re informants.
Appendix with all forms in reproducible format.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Definitions, Types and Characterizations of Informants
2. Recruiting and Handling Informants.
3. Interviewing and Debriefing Informants.
4. Compensating Informants.
5. Informant File Systems.
6. Legal Issues.
7. Use of Polygraphs.
8. Informant Sharing.
9. SOP - Writing the Policy.
10. Appendix (Reproducible Forms).