How do i know what info a confidential informant has given?

[petulant]

Am i supposed to be able to find out what info an informant has given or do my gaurds automatically act on what he told them?

[Bigurn]

You select the said CI and summon him to the security office, while he is "active" any info he has will be displayed on the map via icon. I find that once he becomes active its best to pause the game so you can click on each icon which forces a automatic search of that prisoner or location.

They can also be used to find snitches ex law enforcement which while he is active will display that little angle symbol or whatever it is, although with snithes you have to remember who they are so its best to deal with them last

[petulant]

I figured it out but got carried away doing searches because they had a ton of info then they went from very low suspicion to very high,
i hadn't seen any info on snitches or ex law enforcement from my informants so i'll look for that next time, thanks

[barticle]

Once you have several informants you can use them on rotation to allow time for their suspicion levels to recover. If you can get some max-sec guys with long sentences they'll serve you for a very long time.

When you have the Informants menu open any inmate with an unknown reputation ( icon when you hover over them) will be highlighted in red - it's easiest to check for these during Eat or Sleep time. In addition to giving intel on contraband, informants will also reveal unknown reps within their coverage area. Activating an informant with 100% coverage will uncover all unknown reps across the jail, even if the informant is on permanent lockdown and the prisoner has just arrived!

I haven't seen an angel icon on PS4 - I think that must've been from the late May update on Xbox? The best way to find snitches (mouth+ear icon), ex-cops (broken badge icon) and ex-prison guards (ditto) is to check prisoners as they arrive off the bus - or as they leave in the hearse! If you activate a 100% CI just before 8am then any hidden reps in the new intake will be uncovered.

That's too easy for me though. I prefer to send them all to permanent lockdown in the Protective Custody wing with a bugged phone in each cell. By the following day any guys with family members will phone home and reveal their rep info. Then I keep the vulnerable ones in PC, move the most dangerous ones to SuperMax lockdown and put the others into med/max-sec.

I've just noticed that some (but not all) snitches on PS4 have a skull & crossbones icon over them in the Informants view. I assume this indicates the inmates that have been marked for assassination.

[petulant]

Thanks, that's really helpful, i'm going to try activating an informant at 8am,
I've seen prisoners with unknown reputations highlighted red while i had an informant in security but i didn't know how to find out the prisoners reputation, do you know is it just telling me they have unknown reps or is it telling me i can reveal their rep?

[barticle]

I think the red outlines highlight all guys with hidden reps.

An active CI will automatically reveal hidden reputations a couple of seconds after entering the security room but only one with 100% coverage will uncover all unknowns. I guess if they have 50% coverage they only have rep and contraband info on half of the total population, etc.

If a prisoner with a hidden rep uses a tapped phone that will always reveal their rep instantly too unless the guard on the surveillance desk is already listening to another phone. My small Protective Custody block / screening department has a dedicated desk connected only to the phones in the PC cells.

[Bigurn]

It might not be angel wings lol with older age comes the eyesight that accompies it. Its the symbol that on players marked for death because they are ex cops or snithes or whatever, just looked like angel wings.

[barticle]

Must admit I had to start wearing glasses a year or two ago.

The patch notes said a symbol was added to mark snitches and ex-cops but this skull & crossbones definitely doesn't mark all of them since I had two snitches in adjacent PC cells and only one had it.