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What is an anonymous informant
This informant doesn't provide you any identifying information
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What is surveillance
I can go observe something LEOs can't
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What is 100%
Percentage of your contact with an informant that should be documented
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What is fear of incarceration/self preservation
I got busted so I want to try to lessen my charges
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What is control and direct your investigation
How to prevent an informant from running your case
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What is a confidential informant
This informant wants to be secret
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What is a controlled purchase
I will go buy 2 guns
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What is two
Minimum number of agents to document a payment to an informant
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What is ego/vanity/wanna be
I wanted to be a cop but failed my polygraph so I will be an informant instead
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What is entrapment
The term for if an informant convinces someone to do a crime they're not predisposed to commit
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What is a non-confidential informant
This informant doesn't care if you keep their identity a secret
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What is undercover introduction
I will bring you to meet the bad guy
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What is the informant agreement
The document signed by the informant and agent formalizing the relationship
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What is civic mindedness
I want to be a CI to clean up my neighborhood
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What is bring another agent
Way to solve the issue of meeting with an informant of the opposite sex
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What is a criminal informant
This is the most common type you sign up
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What is intelligence
I can tell you the current price of contraband on the street
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What is termination/deactivation paperwork
Paperwork executed to end an informant relationship
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What is perverse
I'm gonna play you to learn your techniques and undercover agents
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What is unauthorized violation of the law
When an informant commits a crime not under your direction
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What is a professional/mercenary informant
This type is in it for the money
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What is help establish probable cause
I will go in his house and observe criminal activity and report back the information
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What is in a secure and locked location
Where an informant file should be kept
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What is reform/repentance
I feel sorry for all of the bad things I've done so I want to make up for them by being an informant
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What is tripping
When an informant goes to a location other than the one approved for the operation
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