Table of Contents

Foreword. Preface 1. Introduction 2. Drugs, Crime and Informers 3. Law Enforcement Ethics: is principled informant handling possible? 4. Informers, Agents and Accountability: the use of human information sources by the Police and the Security Service 5. Informer careers: motivation and change 6. Gender issues of Informer Handling 7. Juvenile informers 8. Where the Grass is Greener? Supergrasses in comparative perspective 9. Managing Anonymous Informants through Crimestoppers 10. Witness Protection Schemes 11. Regulating informers: RIP A, covert policing and human rights

About the Author

Roger Billingsley is head of the Covert Policing Standards Unit at New Scotland Yard.

Teresa Nemitz lectures at the Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, Loughborough University.

Philip Bean is Emeritus Professor of Criminology and formerly Director of the Midland Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at Loughborough.