Here is an all to common story about an officer who is suspected of having inappropriate relationships with confidential informants. These relationships happen because officers believe they can have clandestine meetings without any contemporaneous record being kept of the meeting. The article discusses the use of a digital police notebook that provides a simple solution.
Verinote - An App to help in managing confidential informants
This article discusses the use of the VeriNote app and its utility in confidential informant management. There are a lot of features about this product that make it ideal for officers involved in managing confidential sources (HUMINT, covert human intelligence sources, CHIS, and confidential human sources). Here we list some of the features that will make it very appealing to anyone involved in this type of work.
Securing documentation - Intelligence Work 101
A distressing story from West Midlands UK about the loss of confidential intelligence on gang members. This article discusses why losing confidential material of this type, should not happen. We are in the 21st Century and there are secure encrypted methods for keeping intelligence safely and a handwritten police notebook is not one of them.
