CII Community Training Initiative

Community Training Initiative

The primary purpose of the initiative is to create a network of focal points among the CII community for identifying, sharing, conducting, and developing general and specialist training courses and programs for investigators, analysts and managers. 53 organizations within the CII family nominated a Focal Point from their investigative or ethics offices to be their point of contact for this great and long-awaited CII initiative. We have finally established the network!

Contacts: David Wolf, Mary Eastwood-Jones

Workstream number 1:

Collaboration network

Connect and collaborate with all CII member organizations through the Training Focal Pont network and collaboration platform.

Objectives:

Research and select a collaborative IT platform (e.g., MS Teams, Google Workspace) most idea and universally available to all Focal Points to access. Platform will facilitate Focal Point communications, coordination, and information sharing. It should have features such as a Shared Calendar of events, posts and chat function, file sharing and collaboration, task assignment, video calls, etc.

Course Catalog

Have a comprehensive catalogue of investigator courses of all levels and skills offered by experts both internal and external to the CII family.

Objectives:

Develop a centralized library/catalog of in-person and virtual training and development courses on the platform that:

  1. Have already been developed and are available within the CII for in-house training and sharing
  2. Have already been scheduled on their calendars
  3. Are in development
  4. Are recommended courses by external providers
  5. Are on-line self-study, etc.

Workstream number 2:

Skills and Competences

Access a CII-harmonized suggested skills and competencies framework for hiring and developing investigators, specialist and managers.

Objectives:

  • Drawing the best from others’ frameworks: Develop a CII-harmonized skills competencies framework–minimum skills by level, specialists skills, managerial/leadership skills–across the CII’s six core investigative activities
  • Reconcile the completed frameworks (base, specialists and managerial) with the course library (developed above) and identify the gaps where a training course(s) is/are needed

Uniform Curriculum

Refer to the CII-harmonised suggested course curricula to design yours and your units individual professional development plans.

Objectives:

  • Drawing from the Competency Skills Framework, develop a CII-harmonized training course curriculum of available, external, and courses to be developed that would allow investigators to achieve the minimum and/or specialists competencies
  • Identify global training partners (e.g., Association of Corporate Investigators; Institute for Int’l Criminal Investigations)

Workstream number 3:

Course Attendance and Instruction Catalogue

Develop, teach or attend on-line or in-person investigation courses suited for your interests & personal development.

Objectives:

  • Fill in Competency Skills Framework Gaps.
  • Research external course providers and add their suitable courses to the Course Curriculum.
  • Identify CII course developers and start planning internal development of courses for the Curriculum not available by external providers
  • Identify and create DB of CII course instructors and partners

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CII General Principles for Core Investigative Activities

Six volumes of General Principles for conducting core investigative activities that greatly expand on the principles within the CII’s Uniform Principles and Guidelines for Investigations. Endorsed at the 21st CII, these Principles provide more in-depth, principles-based, uniform guidance to investigators and Investigative Offices conducting these six core activities: Intake and Evaluation, Scoping and Planning, collection of Physical and Documentary Evidence, collection of Testimonial Evidence, collection of Digital Evidence and Evidence Analysis and Reporting of Findings.

As supplements to the CII’s Uniform Principles and Guidelines, each paper sets out non-binding principles establishing uniform standards to guide investigators and Investigative Offices undertaking these activities. They are purposely not prescriptive in technical details nor implementing practices. These Principles will also form the basis for a future CII Investigator Credential and CII Investigator training pathways.

DOWNLOAD INTAKE AND EVALUATION
 
DOWNLOAD SCOPING AND PLANNING
 
DOWNLOAD PHYSICAL AND DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
DOWNLOAD TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE
 
DOWNLOAD DIGITAL EVIDENCE
 
DOWNLOAD EVIDENCE ANALYSIS AND REPORTING OF FINDINGS