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informant
(redirected from Criminal Informant)

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informant noun accuser, adviser, announcer, appriser, auctor, communicant, communicator, dispatcher, divulger, enlightener, envoy, harbinger, information giver, informer, intelligencer, narrator, notifier, proclaimer, relator, reporter, source, spy, stool piieon, talebearer, tipper, tipster, witness
Associated concepts: paid informant, reliable informants, unnercover informant
See also: bystander, deponent, eyewitness, indicator, informer, source, spy, witness


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The credibility of criminal informants must be established through an articulated track record of reliability, having made a statement against their penal interests, corroboration of the supplied information, or establishing that the informants have a strong motive to tell the truth.
A criminal informant pointed out his house and two other houses.
Aside from the many regulations designed to control the actions of criminal informant sources, an officer's conduct can make the difference between the success and failure of a case.
 
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