Sentence examples for informants from inspiring English sources

The advert will form one part of the probe as detectives sift through intelligence reports and information gleaned from the public and informants since the murder.

Police are investigating complaints from four campaigners who say they felt intimidated by covert officers who tried to recruit them as informants.

This relationship is also used to stress the importance of developing CIs (confidential informants) rather than relying on aggression and street busts.

He's right: in January, the Brooklyn DA announced an investigation into six detectives in the 67th who couldn't produce informants who had supposedly led them to guns or other evidence, causing dismissals.

Netpol, the Network for Police Monitoring, has also made criticisms of the use of informants - see here.

He said it needed to cover six points: the use of undercover officers; the use and protection of informants; the use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to allow for surveillance; deaths in custody; the use of lethal force by police; and the supervision of police operations that might affect minority communities.

I discovered that on education, one of her informants was her hairdresser, who lived in south London.

Police often have off-site facilities to have private conversations with their informants.

The official watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, said :"We are concerned by the allegations regarding the manner in which two officers of Cambridgeshireshire Constabulary have allegedly attempted to recruit informants to infiltrate various political organisations".

The revelation prompted three more campaigners to come forward and describe how the police had tried to entice them into becoming informants.

Niland said police knowledge of gang workings had increased "exponentially" in line with more informants and direct contact with bikies.