Here is another story about the consequences of bad informant management in New Bedford, Mass. A lot has been said about problems within this agency none of which can be pleasant for any officer of that agency unconnected with the allegations. These have been covered in depth in the podcast Snitch City presented by the Boston Globe.
Confidential Informant - Poor management and how to fix it.
Here are two stories around things going badly wrong in regard to confidential informant management.
One from Siloam Springs and one from Los Alamos
Have a read at the stories and check out what happened. Now look at your own department and ask your self “How could this happen in our department? “ If your answer is ‘It couldn’t ‘ you might want to look again. We all like to think we have systems and procedures that stop these types of incident from occurring. Yet, if you are a regular reader of this blog you will see they do time and time again.
Avoiding confidential informant related corruption.
There have been serious allegations of corruption in Detroit Police Department involving a narcotics unit and the mismanagement of confidential informant finances. There are always risks when it comes to managing confidential informants (HUMINT, Human Sources, Covert Human Intelligence Sources) This article discusses some of the ways to manage these risks.
Reducing Confidential informant Related Corruption
This article relates to informant management that resulted in a Chicago police officer being sentence to seven years imprisonment. This story is not about one bad cop, it is about a broken system for managing confidential informants (Confidential Human Sources, HUMINT, Covert Human Intelligence Sources , CHIS)
