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A person who gives police information about crimes and offenders.
‘The applicants compare the situation to that of the police informers.’
‘And he confessed that he'd been involved in the murder of this individual, who was apparently a police informer of some sort.’
‘Those orders are perfectly normal orders to protect the names of police informers and persons of a similar kind.’
‘I enclose a summary of his paid activities as a police informer.’
‘Rather than protest or opposition, this discontent gave rise to a sense of apathy and resignation, a situation that was vividly described in the report of a police informer in January 1939.’