Crime Intelligence operatives

Crime Intelligence operatives provide intelligence which is sometimes just accepted and operationalised based on prior working relationship and trust.

“Commissioner, you get to know your intelligence operatives. Some of them will take a chance on information, but we do have members that we have worked for, for years. And if he comes to me with information, he presents the information to me, I will accept it as fact and I will operationalise it.”

Sometimes Crime Intelligence operatives attend the scene of seizures as covert observers, known as 'ghosts', who must not be identified in the community or normal policing space and do not get involved directly in the crime scene.

“When he comes to the scene, he does not get involved in my crime scene per se. He will be an observer. ... when I say they are a ghost, it is a person that must not be identified in a community space. It is also a person that must not be identified in the normal policing space. They are covert operatives.”