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- The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 created a new single oversight body for all investigatory powers, the Investigatory Powers Commissioners Office (IPCO). IPCO regularly inspects and monitors the use of undercover policing and has raised several concerns about the authorisation and oversight of undercover policing.
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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...
How has undercover policing changed in the last 50 years? The ways in which undercover policing is now conducted and managed – to national standards set by the College of Policing and implemented by the National Police Chiefs’ Council is – significantly different from what it was. So too are the laws and policies that govern and
Jul 28, 2015 · Sir John Mitting is a former High Court judge and served as the Chairman of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission from 2007 to 2012. Sir John was appointed as the Inquiry’s Chair in 2017. Before that, the Chair was Sir Christopher Pitchford, who had to step down due to ill health.
- 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 ...
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...
Undercover policing in England and Wales. By Joanna Dawson, Jennifer Brown. Contents: Summary. Regulation of undercover operations. Current police practice. Criticism of historic undercover policing units. Government and parliamentary reviews. Litigation. The Undercover Policing Inquiry.
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. This incorporates lessons learned so far from the Undercover Policing Inquiry.
