Can you keep your wits about you?

Keeping our wits about us is the axiom used to help remember the R-WITS-US informant interview model. This is a bespoke interview model specifically designed to be used with informants. It incorporates rapport building techniques into a more holistic approach towards managing informant welfare and is the first interview model to include an explicit Tasking phase. This is the first interview model to recognise that how a handler manages informant Welfare and Tasking can directly impact Intelligence gain.

If you think your team would benefit from these insights, why not reach out and see enquire about a bespoke training package, Or, read the full research article by following the link:

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DNGFFQHK9EGINCFTUBIA/full?target=10.1080/18335330.2022.2153614 Keeping our wits about us: Introducing a bespoke informant interview model for Covert Human Intelligence Source (CHIS) interactions Keeping our wits about us: Introducing a bespoke informant interview model for Covert Human Intelligence Source (CHIS) interactions