Policy Text
University of California, San Francisco
Police Department General Orders
5.16 Organized Crime and Vice Control: Operations
5.16.5 Confidential Informant Files (Revised: 8/1/14)
A. Detectives will make every effort to protect the identity of a confidential informant.
B. To prevent the disclosure of an informant’s identity, a confidential informant file will be
maintained in a locking file cabinet in the Investigations Lieutenant’s office. When the
Investigations Unit Lieutenant is not present in his/her office, the file cabinet shall remain
locked. A co nfidential file on each informant will include at a minimum:
1. Biographical and background information
2. Criminal history record, if any
3. Information received from informant
4. Informant’s involvement in operations
5. Secured, restricted and controlled access.
C. Procedures outlining the use of informants in General Order 5.1.8, “Use of Informants”
shall be used in every case where an informant in involved .