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- There are existing laws to allow security agencies and the police to recruit and authorise an agent to go undercover. That system will be extended to allow them to commit a specific crime as part of that job. If that authorisation is correctly followed, then the agent and the officers overseeing the operation can't be prosecuted.
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Undercover policing is a tactic for gathering intelligence and evidence with a view to preventing or prosecuting crime. It may be deployed in a very wide range of situations.
Nov 2, 2020 · The Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) is one of the most complicated, expensive and delayed public inquiries in British legal history. At its heart is a series of very serious allegations of...
The Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) is one of the most complicated, expensive and delayed public inquiries in British legal history. At its heart is a series of very serious allegations of...
This page is from APP, the official source of professional practice for policing. To support the critical role of undercover policing in protecting the public, the College of Policing and National Undercover Working Group have worked closely to develop comprehensive updated APP.
- What Will Be Covered
- How The Met Is Assisting The Inquiry
- Public Hearings
- What’s Next?
The Inquiry is examining, in particular, the work of two former undercover policing units: 1. The Special Demonstration Squad (SDS)initially known as the Special Operation Squad – an undercover unit set up by the Metropolitan Police Service (“the Met”) between 1968 and 2008. 2. The National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU)– which was active b...
The Met is one of the organisations that has played a significant role in the matters being examined by the Inquiry. A considerable part of the evidence to be heard by the Inquiry will be about the activities of Met officers. A number of former and current Met officers will therefore be called by the Inquiry to give evidence. Since the Inquiry was ...
To date the Inquiry has heard evidence at two public hearings: 1. The Tranche 1 Phase 1 Hearing ran from 2 to 19 November 2020. Opening statements were delivered by many of the Inquiry’s Core Participants at this hearing, and evidence heard from former undercover officers and non-state witnesses about the SDS during the period 1968 to the end of 19...
The next stage is the Inquiry's Tranche 2 Evidence Hearings, which has been split into three phases. 1. Phase 1 began on Monday 1 July 2024 and will run until Friday 2 August 2024. The Inquiry will hear from undercover officers, non-state witnesses and those in the SDS supervisory chain of command between approximately 1983 and 1992. A copy of the ...
Oct 15, 2020 · What does the bill do? The legislation creates a licence - or strictly speaking an "authorisation" - for undercover agents and informants to commit crimes as part...
Jul 28, 2015 · The Undercover Policing Inquiry was set up in 2015 to get to the truth about undercover policing across England and Wales since 1968 and provide recommendations for the future.
