Police in Gloucestershire have paid informants more than £150,000 for information a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

This is Gloucestershire report: 

FORMER criminals working undercover for Gloucestershire police are being paid tens of thousands of pounds to help trace the most-wanted offenders.

Police informants netted more than £166,000 over five years from the force, given in exchange for intelligence used to land criminals at large.

Receipts obtained by the Echo through the Freedom of Information Act have revealed the force made regular yearly payments to the informers ranging from £31,000 to £35,000.

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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.