Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.
Petitioner contends that the determination is not supported by substantial evidence as he was improperly charged with possession of weapons and the Hearing Officer failed to make his own assessment of the confidential informant’s credibility. We find, however, that the specificity and detail of the confidential information, given to the Hearing Officer during an in camera interview of the informant, allowed the Hearing Officer to make his own credibility assessment (see, Matter of
Weiss, P. J., Levine, Mercure, Mahoney and Casey, JJ., concur. Adjudged that the determination is confirmed, without costs, and petition dismissed.