Informers

The ratios swelled when informers were factored in: counting part-time informers, the Stasi had one informer per 6.5 people.

However, DepEd labeled this disbursement as rewards to informers.

Op Kenova examined a number of cases where suspected informers were abducted by PIRA, and in some cases abducted and murdered.

The COA had issued an audit observation memorandum asking DepEd to explain how it spent P15.54 million in confidential funds to pay informers.

In anticipation of the racket's key players moving assets and placing bets, police have already activated their network of informers to give any tip-off about the gambling/betting activity.

Indeed, they were forced to feed false information to the RUC at one point because there were so many IRA informers inside the force.

Police promised to keep secret the identity of informers.

The police will be used to 'check compliance' with the rules and will investigate claims by informers that a person who should be in quarantine is flouting the requirement.

After the accused were identified by informers, crime branch officials cornered them at a place,” said Subhash Bokan, PRO of Gurugram police.

And throughout Eritrea, citizens are entangled in an extensive government-run network of informers: Students betray friends who have deserted the army; housewives inform on neighbors who criticize the regime and so on.

As per the process, officials from the department receive a tip-off from informers, and a decoy is pulled in to contact the lab/doctor involved.

Bizarrely, he was housed alongside Matthew Johnson, a violent criminal notorious for his hatred of police informers.

He said intelligence gathered had revealed that most of the attacks carried out by bandits in the state resulted from information emanating from the informers, many of whom lived within the attacked communities.

While police have been tight-lipped about Tanvir Tiryani's role in the drug haul, sources claim that Tiryani has been one of the top police informers, who blew the whistle on many important cases over the years.

A law has to be enacted to protect informers, it said.

A number of families of IRA members shot dead as informers have made separate complaints to Northern Ireland’s police ombudsman, claiming that Scappaticci’s handlers in the security forces failed to use their agent to prevent the murders.

As a consequence of the way they allowed informers to continue operating, Special Branch, military intelligence and MI5 are today facing accusations that they colluded in killings.

Denunciation bandwagons were effective means of dividing people and turning them against each other, transforming friends, spouses, relatives, colleagues, neighbors, lovers, and even children into enemies, rivals and informers.

Instead, she endorsed the “necklacing” method of killing suspected informers and police with fuel-doused tires put around the neck and set alight.

This is the place where Winnie Mandela made her famous speech in the 1980s that informers or “mpipis” would be necklaced with a tyre and killed for their disloyalty to the liberation movement.