What studying many public inquires, into allegations of police incompetence and wrongdoing can tell us. about the reasons for failures. One of the common failings was the lack of systems and processes, another was individual’s keeping information in isolation. While fixing systems and processes can take a lot of effort technology can go a long way to integrating information within an agency. One solution is digitising officer’ officers’ notebooks and journals.
Police Corruption and Informants - Simply no valid excuse.
There is simply no valid excuse in 2021, for officers mishandling confidential informants (HUMINT, confidential human sources, Covert human intelligence sources, CHIS). While there is always a risk that one officer becomes involved in corrupt behavior systems should be in place where such behavior is very difficult to carry out and if it is done it can be readily detected and easily proven.
