Confidential informants, human sources, humint, confidential human intelligence sources, CHIS, choose your terminology but the problems in managing people giving information to the police are well known and rarely change. There are ways to manage them these people that protect the person, protect the public, protect the agency, protect the officer, and protect the rule of law. Unfortunately, for some agencies, adopting the necessary measures just seems like something that is too difficult to do .
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Auditing confidential informant management systems
Why do police managers not want to make changes to manage confidential informants safely. An article that explores some of the reasons why police managers do not want to change the way their agency manages confidential informants. If informants are to be managed safely and the amount of intelligence maximised most police forces need to change how they manage confidential informants.
