Undercover/Confidential Informant Rescue (UCCIR) Course

This two-day, 16-hour Undercover Officer / Confidential Informant (UC/CI) Rescue course is designed for Street Crimes Units, Narcotics, HIDTA Task Forces, Fugitive Apprehension Teams, Criminal Investigations, and any investigative unit that utilizes undercover officers or confidential informants.

The course prepares investigators, supervisors, surveillance teams, and tactical support personnel for the sudden transition from covert operations to immediate rescue during life-threatening critical incidents. Students learn to rapidly assess evolving situations, establish a common operating picture, prioritize threats, and execute coordinated rescue operations while maintaining decision continuity under extreme stress.

Through classroom instruction, practical exercises, and scenario-based training, students develop the knowledge and operational framework necessary to safely recover undercover personnel, confidential informants, victims, or hostages when time-sensitive intervention is required.

Course topics include:

• Mission planning and pre-operational rescue considerations

• Surveillance recognition and rescue initiation

• Threat assessment and operational decision-making under stress

• Rescue priorities and the “Solve the First Problem First” decision model

• Immediate action rescue techniques for undercover officers and confidential informants

• Vehicle assaults and emergency extraction operations

• Exigent entries and emergency breaching considerations

• Threshold management, room entry fundamentals, and movement techniques

• Team communication, role assignments, and command during rescue operations

• Plain-clothes identification, deconfliction, and blue-on-blue prevention

• Casualty rescue, tactical medical priorities, and rapid extraction

• Transition from rescue operations to scene stabilization and criminal investigation

• Scenario-based practical exercises validating planning, communication, and rescue decision-making