Here is a story from Connecticut about the compromise of a confidential informant through the allegedly corrupt actions of a police officer. The story relates how an officer allowed his girlfriend access to a computer that held the details of a confidential informant and the officers involved in a drugs arrest.
Bad Information from a confidential Informant costs $2.9 million.
Many of our readers in the USA will be familiar with the case in Chicago of Anjanette Young, where police executed a warrant on her apartment to search for a gun. Without going into all the details of what was done wrong, it has now cost the City of Chicago $2.9 million in compensation for Ms Young. This was an expensive day out for the Chicago Police Department. We can stop the same thing happening to your agency,
Confidential informants and police corruption
Here is a story from New Albany, Indiana about a police officer that went well and truly down the wrong road with a confidential informant, (human source, CHIS). This type of think could have happened in many police departments. The case is far from unique. No doubt everyone is seeking to cast all the blame on the officer. Time would be better spent looking at how this behaviour occurred and how it continued for two years.
Confidential Informant Management - Poor systems lead to poor results.
Confidential Informant Management - Poor systems lead to poor results.
This article discusses the benefits of having an independent audit of police confidential informant management and intelligence systems. It lists a number of benefits of such an audit. If a law enforcement agency manages human sources or covert human intelligence sources (CHIS) the article will be of interest
