MCTFT INFORMANTS: Development, Management, and Control
Mon, Jun 29
|Sandy City Police Department
This 16-hour class is intended to teach investigators how to develop, manage, and control informants used for narcotic and criminal investigative purposes.
Time & Location
Jun 29, 2026, 8:00 AM – Jun 30, 2026, 5:00 PM
Sandy City Police Department, 10000 S. Centennial Pkwy Sandy, UT 84070, USA
Class Description
INFORMANTS: DEVELOPMENT, MANAGEMENT, AND CONTROL
This 16-hour class is intended to teach investigators how to develop, manage, and control informants used for narcotic and criminal investigative purposes. The course includes an awareness component, covering the critical information investigators need to know before using informants and during operations, to ensure the safety of all, while building successful prosecutable cases. This course addresses the many potential pitfalls that can arise when using informants and how to prevent criminal and civil liability for the agency as well as internal discipline for the investigator that could lead to termination. Course topics include, but are not limited to, the following: who qualifies as an informant; recruitment techniques for informants; implementing an informant policy; common methods of using an informant; the risk associated with using an informant; and understanding the informant’s motivations.
Course topics include:
• Who should work as an Informant
• Department policy on Informants
• Controlling…