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Information about a big drug operation could net a police informant $100, maybe $200. The payoff could be higher in a murder case, provided the information pans out. Across the country, paying for information is an essential tool in police investigations. Law enforcement agencies - and the people that audit them - also know that payments to these unnamed, confidential sources require oversight. But that doesn't always prevent fraud.
Last week, a veteran Hartford police detective was charged with stealing about $6,000 from that department's confidential informant fund. He was suspended without pay and faces charges of first- degree larceny and forgery.See the full content of this document
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Handling Informants' Payoff Funds Can Be Tricky
His supervisors spotted alleged fraud and reported it, sparking an internal investigation that is expanding into a wider inquest, police there said.
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