NewsletterJune 5, 2014
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LEOs: Want to Legalize Drugs?
Fitness Tip
Investigations: Establishing Informant Reliability
Reid Military Instructional Programs In Non-Coercive Humint Collection

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LEOs: Want to Legalize Drugs?

 

Legalized? Decriminalized? Regulated? Ignored?  

 

By Lt. Jim Glennon  

 

Reprinted from LawOfficer.com  

 

Some group reached out to me. They seem sincere and I read what they wrote and considered their line of reasoning. In short, I found that they are a consortium of law enforcement officers who are rallying against the prohibition of drugs. Their belief, and I see their point, is the same belief that many promote: end the prohibition, legalize, decriminalize and/or regulate narcotics. Sounds simple, logical and reasonable because: We are losing the war on drugs, and everyone knows that.

 

But here is where I pause-dramatically-and I do this for two reasons.

 

One: Nothing about this subject is that simple; in fact it's quite complicated.

 

And two: The entire proposition is based on a presupposition, which is: We are losing the war on drugs, and everyone knows it.

 

The problem with presuppositions is that they do exactly that-presuppose. And in this case it's a troublesome supposition.

 

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Investigations: Establishing Informant Reliability  

  

By Dr. Larry F. Jetmore

 

Reprinted from LawOfficer.com

 

My October column dealt with confidential, reliable informants. Along with a model policy and procedure for department personnel using informants, the article also provided information on the use and audit of department undercover funds, and some practical suggestions on how to recruit informants.


This article deals with establishing the reliability of informant information for use in securing arrest and search-and-seizure warrants. For the purposes of this article, a confidential informant is a person formally registered and compensated by the department for supplying information or performing a service, such as a controlled purchase of drugs. This article also distinguishes between paid police informants and others who provide information to the police. 

 
Reid Military Instructional Programs In Non-Coercive Humint Collection 
  

On January 22, 2009, the President of the United States issued an executive order mandating that the protocols described within Army Field Manual 2-22.3 ("the Manual") be followed with respect to Human Intelligence Collection Operations involving interviewing and interrogation ("HUMINT Questioning Sessions").


John E. Reid & Associates, Inc., has provided instruction to United States military and intelligence assets in the arts of detection of deception and non-coercive interviewing continuously since 1977. Over that time span, we've trained in excess of 35,000 military and intelligence personnel from more than 275 United States government security agencies and military units. Of those, we've provided instruction to more than 12,000 military and intelligence personnel from more than 175 United States government security agencies and military units since implementation of the Manual in September 2006. 

  

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