He has a whole stable of informers working for him.
The government refused to disclose the names of the informers.
His draft bill, influenced by Britain's RSPCA, promised to do this and offer rewards to informers.
Document obtained by Spanish radio station says' well-placed informers' in constant contact by satellite telephone.
What they do, I'm told, is persuade people like cleaners and maintenance staff to become informers.
US authorities criticised the leak, saying it could put the lives of coalition soldiers and Afghans, especially informers, at risk.
Into this perilous world of spies and informers steps the neophyte policeman, Nicholas Le Floch, Breton-born, and as stubborn as his countrymen.
The formal public security structure was augmented by a pervasive system of informers throughout the society. Surveillance of citizens, both physical and electronic, was routine.
But then we were not being singled out, the entire country lives in a bubble of unreality, cut off from the outside world and watched by an army of informers.
This reflects the mentality of the people on one hand, and reflects inadequate protection of the rights of informers and witnesses in China's existing laws and systems on the other hand.
