Informants are an important part of policing especially in serious crime. Discover how police manage them from the following people:
Lee Davies
Ex-Detective Chief Inspector
A DCI who specialized in the murky world of informants and assisting offenders. He provides a wide array of experience within the informant world operating as a handler, controller and authorising officer.
His operational experience covers Force, cross border, Counter terrorism and serious organised crime arenas.
Sheena served as a police officer with both Surrey and the City of London Police until 2019. She specialised in CID, Source Handling, Sexual Offences and Training.
Having left the police Sheena is currently working abroad, training police officers in various roles and ranks.
Paul served in the Metropolitan Police in the Special Branch and SO15 CTC. He was posted at Heathrow Airport, NSY and other central London locations. Paul is vastly experienced in handling, developing and operational use of high-grade intelligence, the development and handling of CHIS, thematic and academic expertise on Iranian state terrorism. He also worked as a CT analyst in the NATO Intelligence Fusion Centre for several years.
Stuart served with Northamptonshire Police, National Crime Squad (NCS), and the National Police Improvement Agency. With the NCS he managed teams in the Operations, Intelligence and Covert Human Intelligence fields. He worked on a national project to produce best practice in the use and management of Money Laundering legislation. After retiring from the Police, he worked for Barclays Bank, managing their Fraud Operations and Intelligence teams.
Richard has had a colourful career having served with the RMP as a Close Protection operative, Cleveland Police as a CHIS (Informant) handler and with SOCA (now the NCA) as a surveillance officer. During his service Richard dealt with national and international organised crime networks and is an experienced suspect interviewer.
Veronica has over 25 years experience within the Counter Terrorism and Serious Crime environment. She has been deployed as an Undercover Officer, both nationally and internationally, working with other agencies and overseas covert units dealing with cases such as contract killings and high value frauds. Veronica currently delivers counter terrorism training to foreign agencies.
