0 a person who gives information in secret, especially to the police:
Most police informers receive a reward for their information.
1 a person who tells esp. the police about someone’s criminal activities
The professional informer was a dubious and thoroughly unreliable dealer in information.
What is not clear from the record, however, is how this unwanted publicity was dealt with by law-enforcement agencies, police handlers, or the informers themselves.
I have proof enough to assure myself of the atrocities which this gang of spies and informers have committed.
Anonymously authored pamphlets were hardly the most serious obstacles that the state's informers and their police partners in licensed crime had to overcome.
The language barrier represented another pressure, since the traveller could be the victim of interpreters or informers.
The second was active surveillance, prevention of crime and an accurate network of informers.
When excise sales were far too low, they intensified their enforcement efforts through police patrols, informers and other tried and true methods.
Many of the new members also acted as informers for the security organs.
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