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 --
Occasionally, culturally camouflaged informers helped achieve significant results.
Whatever else government informers achieved, they certainly created an atmosphere of intimidation.
They claimed that these paragraphs opened the way for physicians to become informers for the police.
There is no crime in detecting and destroying in war-time, the spy and the informer.
Such information in high-context societies can, paradoxically, raise the suspicion that the informer is withholding information or even concealing the truth.
In order to maintain credibility, informers had to pass information to agencies of sufficient quality to ensure successful conversion into prosecutions.
Meanwhile, a network of police informers was established, who were paid 'according to the value of their information'.
Many of the new members also acted as informers for the security organs.
