Source Management Database Module

The power behind Source and Covert Surveillance activities

Operational Benefits

The Charter Source and Covert Authorities System provides significant operational benefits in terms of compliance, system versatility and control as well as opportunities for management information, operational analysis and performance indicators.

Versatile
The application provides a versatile and flexible approach for organisations to implement a system that conforms to their local policies and procedures whilst ensuring they remain legally compliant.

Duty of Care
The system allows Police forces to demonstrate and undertake a duty of care in protecting intelligence sources.

Monitor Status Drift
The systems ensures that Police forces can evidence the status drift of intelligence sources.

Source Mapping
The system allows forces to map and select sources based on geographical area and / or by expertise and crime. This approach ensures forces can react quickly and accurately based on profiling intelligence of sources that can be crucial in Counter Terrorism activities and high profile cases and operations such as organised crime, abduction, paedophile rings etc.

Source Relationship Transparency
The system provides source relationship transparency by documenting and evidencing all interactions with intelligence sources as well as overlapping the life line from source to criminal to conviction.

Protects Police Officer and Force Integrity
The system protects Police Officers and ensures Force integrity by providing transparency of processes for source handling.

Provenance of System
All report processes are protected from change, which ensures that evidence of quality assurance controls are in place for inspection purposes.

Vicarious Liability
The system protects against Authorising Officer vicarious liability ensuring all actions are evidenced and auditable.

Protect Against Blue on Blue Compromise
The system protects against 'blue on blue' compromise by providing increased visibility of operations and associated tasks and resource use to ensure force activities are not compromised.