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Aug 3, 2021 · Undercover police operations have emerged from the shadows and into the spotlight in the United Kingdom as a result of a public inquiry into undercover policing and the enactment of the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act.
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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.
Covert policing is well anchored within organisational arrangements, empowered by a series of internal rationales mobilised to justify the expansion of covert tactics over and above more traditional, overt forms.
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- Bethan Loftus
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Aug 18, 2016 · Undercover police act in ways that are, in normal circumstances, ways of wronging people. Their actions cause several kinds of harms and setbacks to people's lives.
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- Learning from History, Policing The Future
- A Different Game – But with Rules
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- Lesser Evil
While some of its means clearly fell outside acceptable moral and ethical boundaries, the SDS’s aims may have had politically understandable reasons. The unit was formed in the delicate sociopolitical context of the late 1960s, when the state was facing an increasing threat of public disorder and political violence. Any romantic idea that people ar...
If one accepts (and one might well not) that undercover policing falls within the police mandate and is a legitimate means to prevent public disorder, then it follows that standard rules of policing may not always apply. In particular, the Peelian principle of “policing by consent” is hard to uphold when the whole operational point of undercover po...
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), took a step towards this. RIPA was a badly needed piece of legislation that, if introduced earlier, could have increased the SDS’ accountability and ensured a more ethical code of conduct. Strict adherence to the Management of Police Information(MOPI) could have also prevented the institutiona...
In a political culture that rewards overreaction above underreactionand in an emotionally charged public arena, it is hard to reconcile civil libertarianism with the basic interests of the majority (national security) without rationally engaging with the concept of evil and harm. Few would disagree that deaths and injuries represent a different sca...
Oct 25, 2018 · Policing refers to the profession and practice of maintaining social order and enforcing the law through the street-level prevention, detection, and investigation of crime.
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What is required, and what this book attempts, is an empirical investigation of ‘policing’ in a broad sense, which explores the complexity of order maintenance and rule and law enforcement, with an explicit focus on the relationship between the public sector and the private sector.
