Informants Class
Hosted by Edgewood PD, NM HIDTA and BBS Narcotics Enforcement Training
This course will cover areas involving the use of informants in criminal investigations. Some
of the areas to be covered will include how to recruit informants, use of informants in criminal
investigations, proper documentation and department policy. The course will cover legal and
ethical aspects in the use of informants by law enforcement officers which includes selection
of informants and minimal qualification for a person to be utilized as an informant. The
students will learn investigative techniques to minimize the exposure or identification of
informants. The course will also look at the civil liability of working informants and how to
minimize those liabilities.
The instructor for the class will be Brian Sallee. Brian retired as detective from the
Albuquerque Police Department. He was a police officer for 40 years and spent over 31 years
working narcotics units. Brian has provided training to police officers from all 50 states as
well as foreign police officers. He has written two books; Narcotics Investigations: Working
and Surviving and The Methamphetamine Handbook: What You Need to Know.