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      • The harm that undercover policing does (and harm it does) can only make ethical sense if collateral damage is kept to a minimum, if officers work strictly within tight regulation, and if covert work is used as a clearly necessary last resort to prevent serious public disorder and violence.
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  2. Jul 31, 2014 · The harm that undercover policing does (and harm it does) can only make ethical sense if collateral damage is kept to a minimum, if officers work strictly within tight regulation, and if...

  3. Aug 18, 2016 · Does undercover police work inevitably wrong its targets? Or are undercover activities justified by a general security benefit? In this article I argue that people can make themselves liable to deception and manipulation.

    • Christopher Nathan
    • 2017
  4. Jan 10, 2024 · By its nature, undercover policing involves deception. It also often involves different degrees of manipulation. But deception and manipulation are deeply morally troubling in most other contexts. What, if anything, makes it permissible in the policing context? And when does legitimate undercover policing turn into wrongful entrapment?

  5. Aug 9, 2024 · The ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) is largely a response to a stream of national media scandals that exposed the illegal and unethical behaviour of undercover police officers in two secretive units.

  6. Mar 8, 2022 · Can undercover policing be justified? What are the ethical issues surrounding concealment and infiltration? What larger questions does undercover policing raise about the nature of policing and the legitimacy of coercive state action?

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  7. First, how can police officers and staff be encouraged to act in ways that the public perceive to be fair, respectful and ethical, given the importance of these perceptions to police legitimacy and crime reduction?

  8. Drawing on several recent, high profile case studies, Christopher Nathan argues for a new understanding of proportionality in undercover policing that takes account of innocent parties, vulnerable targets, and manipulation into wrongful action.

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