https://powerbase.info/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Peter+Salmon&feedformat=atomPowerbase - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T01:48:26ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.31.5https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=HN332&diff=259562HN3322022-11-09T12:04:42Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=Cameron Sinclair / HN332|Alias=unknown|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1970s|Targets=n/a}}<br />
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''HN332''' is the cipher given to a former officer with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercover policing unit, where he held a managerial role in the 1970s. In 2018, the Chair of the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]], John Mitting, has restricted the officer's real name on the grounds of ill health.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/> However, in October 2022 this order was revoked in the wake of his death<ref name="ruling22.26Oct22">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221026-sds_anonymity-ruling_22.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad, and those connected with these squads - Ruling 22], '' Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 October 2022.</ref><ref name="hn322.order.26Oct22">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221026-order-rruling22evoking_hn332_anonymity.pdf Revocation of a restriction order under Section 19 of the Inquiries Act 2005 - HN332], '' Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 October 2022.</ref> and his name revealed as Cameron Sinclair.<br />
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Cameron F. Sinclair was a Detective Chief Superintendent in Metropolitan Police Special Branch from circa 1973 to at least 1979 and possibly into 1980.<ref>Police and Constabulary Almanacs, R Maxwell & Sons, various years.</ref><br />
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* For the N cipher system see [[N officers]] page.<br />
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'''+++++ Last updated in Nov 2022 +++++'''<br />
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==As an SDS officer==<br />
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HN332 joined the Metropolitan Police in 1951 at the age of 20, joining Special Branch in 1967 with rank of Inspector.<ref name="MPS-0722810">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/mps-central-record-of-service-for-conrad-dixon/ Gist of MPS Central Record of Service for HN332], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 1948-1979 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk as document MPS-0722810).</ref><br />
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According to information released by the Inquiry:<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180406-HN332-Gist_of_closed_schedule_to_open_application.pdf Gist of additional information supplied in ‘closed’ schedule to the open application], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 April 2018, published 8 May 2018.</ref><br />
:: HN332 worked in the SOS at its inception in a supervisory capacity for a short period. He returned in the early 1970s in an authorising or supervisory capacity. He remained in this capacity for several years during which time he was part of an SDS review.<br />
:: There is no known indication or allegation of wrong doing.<br />
:: No cover name is known. <br />
:: The MPS considers it unlikely that he ever deployed as a UCO. A member of HN332’s family believes he did deploy but came close to being compromised.<br />
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Retired from the police in the 1980s with rank Detective Chief Superintendent.<ref name="MPS-0722810"/><br />
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==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
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* Nov 2017 'Minded-To': restrict real name. Mitting stated:<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).</ref> Provisional decision (5 Mar 2018): restrict real and cover name with application to be heard on 21 March 2018.<ref name="ucpi.pr.5Mar18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180305-press-notice-documents-for-hearing-on-21-Mar-2018.pdf Press notice - Publication of documents relating to Special Demonstration Squad anonymity applications for hearing on 21 March 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 March 2018.</ref> Ruling (Mar 2018): Real name name cannot be published.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling5.27Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Final-ruling-following-21-March-hearing.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad Ruling 5 ], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 27 March 2018.</ref><br />
:: HN332 is in his eighties and in poor health. The Inquiry has been provided with a short medical report itemising the serious medical conditions from which he suffers, including one which is life-threatening. His daughter has provided a witness statement in which she says that he suffers from a very poor memory and from confusion. It must, therefore, be unlikely that he could provide useful evidence to the Inquiry.<br />
:: He served in the Special Operations Squad/Special Demonstration Squad in a managerial capacity in the 1970’s. He was the signatory of a significant memorandum dated 17 December 1971. But for his age and health, I would have refused the application for a restriction order in respect of his real name, on the basis that a senior public servant should be willing and, if not, required, to account for his actions publicly. For the reasons explained, no useful purpose would be served by adopting that course; and to do so would risk impairing the peace of mind and even health of a man in his twilight years. I am minded to make a restriction order which will be in place during his life.<br />
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May 2018: Mitting ruled that the real name would be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
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''Anonymity application documents''<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN332-Open_Application.pdf Open application], Metropolitan Police, 17 October 2017.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180406-HN332-Gist_of_closed_schedule_to_open_application.pdf Gist of additional information supplied in ‘closed’ schedule to the open application]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171010-HN332_daughter_witness_statement_amended-Final.pdf Statement of daughter of HN332], 10 October 2017.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180406-HN332-Gist_of_GP_letter_provided_to_Inquiry.pdf Gist of letter provided to Inquiry from HN332’s General Practitioner] 15 May 2017.<br />
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On 26 October 2022, the Inquiry revoked the anonymity order protecting HN332's name on the grounds that the officer had died. His family requested that the anonymity remained in order to protect the officer's reputation. Mitting however stated:<ref name="ruling22.26Oct22"/><br />
:: In those circumstances there is no good reason to shield the acts of a former operational manager of the Special Demonstration Squad from full public scrutiny.<br />
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''Revocation of Anonymity documents (26 October 2022''<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221026-sds_anonymity-ruling_22.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad, and those connected with these squads - Ruling 22].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221026-order-rruling22evoking_hn332_anonymity.pdf Revocation of a restriction order under Section 19 of the Inquiries Act 2005 - HN332]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20181009-hn332-real_only-ro_revoked.pdf Copy of the original anonymity order marked 'revoked']<br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=HN332&diff=259561HN3322022-11-09T12:00:36Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=Cameron Sinclair / HN332|Alias=unknown|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1970s|Targets=n/a}}<br />
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''HN332''' is the cipher given to a former officer with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercover policing unit, where he held a managerial role in the 1970s. In 2018, the Chair of the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]], John Mitting, has restricted the officer's real name on the grounds of ill health.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/> However, in October 2022 this order was revoked in the wake of his death<ref name="ruling22.26Oct22">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221026-sds_anonymity-ruling_22.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad, and those connected with these squads - Ruling 22], '' Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 October 2022.</ref> and his name revealed as Cameron Sinclair.<br />
<br />
Cameron F. Sinclair was a Detective Chief Superintendent in Metropolitan Police Special Branch from circa 1973 to at least 1979 and possibly into 1980.<ref>Police and Constabulary Almanacs, R Maxwell & Sons, various years.</ref><br />
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* For the N cipher system see [[N officers]] page.<br />
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'''+++++ Last updated in Nov 2022 +++++'''<br />
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==As an SDS officer==<br />
<br />
HN332 joined the Metropolitan Police in 1951 at the age of 20, joining Special Branch in 1967 with rank of Inspector.<ref name="MPS-0722810">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/mps-central-record-of-service-for-conrad-dixon/ Gist of MPS Central Record of Service for HN332], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 1948-1979 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk as document MPS-0722810).</ref><br />
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According to information released by the Inquiry:<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180406-HN332-Gist_of_closed_schedule_to_open_application.pdf Gist of additional information supplied in ‘closed’ schedule to the open application], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 April 2018, published 8 May 2018.</ref><br />
:: HN332 worked in the SOS at its inception in a supervisory capacity for a short period. He returned in the early 1970s in an authorising or supervisory capacity. He remained in this capacity for several years during which time he was part of an SDS review.<br />
:: There is no known indication or allegation of wrong doing.<br />
:: No cover name is known. <br />
:: The MPS considers it unlikely that he ever deployed as a UCO. A member of HN332’s family believes he did deploy but came close to being compromised.<br />
<br />
Retired from the police in the 1980s with rank Detective Chief Superintendent.<ref name="MPS-0722810"/><br />
<br />
==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
<br />
* Nov 2017 'Minded-To': restrict real name. Mitting stated:<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).</ref> Provisional decision (5 Mar 2018): restrict real and cover name with application to be heard on 21 March 2018.<ref name="ucpi.pr.5Mar18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180305-press-notice-documents-for-hearing-on-21-Mar-2018.pdf Press notice - Publication of documents relating to Special Demonstration Squad anonymity applications for hearing on 21 March 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 March 2018.</ref> Ruling (Mar 2018): Real name name cannot be published.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling5.27Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Final-ruling-following-21-March-hearing.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad Ruling 5 ], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 27 March 2018.</ref><br />
:: HN332 is in his eighties and in poor health. The Inquiry has been provided with a short medical report itemising the serious medical conditions from which he suffers, including one which is life-threatening. His daughter has provided a witness statement in which she says that he suffers from a very poor memory and from confusion. It must, therefore, be unlikely that he could provide useful evidence to the Inquiry.<br />
:: He served in the Special Operations Squad/Special Demonstration Squad in a managerial capacity in the 1970’s. He was the signatory of a significant memorandum dated 17 December 1971. But for his age and health, I would have refused the application for a restriction order in respect of his real name, on the basis that a senior public servant should be willing and, if not, required, to account for his actions publicly. For the reasons explained, no useful purpose would be served by adopting that course; and to do so would risk impairing the peace of mind and even health of a man in his twilight years. I am minded to make a restriction order which will be in place during his life.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled that the real name would be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
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''Anonymity application documents''<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN332-Open_Application.pdf Open application], Metropolitan Police, 17 October 2017.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180406-HN332-Gist_of_closed_schedule_to_open_application.pdf Gist of additional information supplied in ‘closed’ schedule to the open application]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171010-HN332_daughter_witness_statement_amended-Final.pdf Statement of daughter of HN332], 10 October 2017.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180406-HN332-Gist_of_GP_letter_provided_to_Inquiry.pdf Gist of letter provided to Inquiry from HN332’s General Practitioner] 15 May 2017.<br />
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On 26 October 2022, the Inquiry revoked the anonymity order protecting HN332's name on the grounds that the officer had died. His family requested that the anonymity remained in order to protect the officer's reputation. Mitting however stated:<ref name="ruling22.26Oct22"/><br />
:: In those circumstances there is no good reason to shield the acts of a former operational manager of the Special Demonstration Squad from full public scrutiny.<br />
<br />
''Revocation of Anonymity documents (26 October 2022''<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221026-sds_anonymity-ruling_22.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad, and those connected with these squads - Ruling 22].<br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=SDS_undercover_list&diff=259299SDS undercover list2022-08-25T11:49:31Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=SDS undercover list|Description=A list of all publicly known officers who served undercover with the Special Demonstration Squad, 1968-2008}}<br />
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This page carries a full list of publicly identified undercover police officers who served with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]], their anonymity status within the Undercover Policing Inquiry, and with links to profiles were done. For a more comprehensive list of all N/HN officers in Operation Herne, Ellisor Review and the Undercover Policing Inquiry see the [[N officers]] page.<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* ''Updated 25 September 2019''<br />
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{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN1<br />
| ''[[Matt Rayner (alias)|Matt Rayner]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in north London 1991-1996, including London Boots Action Group, London Animal Action, Animal Liberation Front and West London Hunt Saboteurs. Engaged in sexual relationships. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN2]]<br />
| [[Andy Coles]] a.k.a. ''Andy Davey''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in south London 1991-1995; also targeted peace groups. Engaged in sexual relationships. Authored a version of the SDS Tradecraft manual. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN3<br />
| ''[[Jason Bishop (alias)|Jason Bishop]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2006 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and Disarm DSEi. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN4]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into two branches of one group in late 1980s/early 1990s.<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-PN-SDS-minded-to-11.pdf Press notice - 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N5 / HN5<br />
| [[John Dines]] a.k.a. ''John Barker''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 infiltrated London Greenpeace and Animal Liberation Front. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN6]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against three groups in 1990s. Cover and real name restricted due to risk of violence and mental health issues.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN7]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover officer.<br />
| Real and cover names restricted on health grounds. Targets & dates unknown.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN8]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover.<br />
| Deployed into one group in late 1980s / early 1990s. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted on grounds of a physical risk.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN9|N9 / HN9]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer. <br />
| Deployed into one group in 1980s; later was a cover officer for officers of interest deployed in 2000s. Named in Ellison Review. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted as HN9 at risk of suicide if details published.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N10 / HN10<br />
| [[Bob Lambert|Robert "Bob" Lambert]] a.k.a. ''Bob Robinson''<br />
| SDS undercover and head of unit.<br />
| Targeted animal rights groups in north London 1984-1989. Engaged in sexual relationships, including fathering a child by one activist. Later head of the SDS and took part in the Walton-N81 meeting.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN11<br />
| [[Mike Chitty]], a.k.a. ''Mike Blake''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1984-1987 deployed into animal rights groups in south London, including South London Animal Movement. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN12]]<br />
| ''Mike Hartley''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1982-1985, deployed into Revolutionary Communist Group and Socialist Workers Party. Engaged in sexual relationships. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN13]]<br />
| ''Barry / Desmond Loader''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) 1974/5-1978. Twice prosecuted for public order offences in his cover name and convicted once. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N14 / HN14<br />
| [[Jim Boyling]] a.k.a. ''"Grumpy" Jim Sutton''<br />
| SDS Undercover. <br />
| 1995-2000 deployed into Essex Hunt Saboteurs, Reclaim the Streets and Earth First! Engaged in sexual relationships and fathered children by an activist.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN15]]<br />
| [[Mark Jenner]] a.k.a. ''Mark Cassidy''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1995-2000 targeted Colin Roach Centre, Anti-Fascist Action, Independent Working Class Association, Republican Forum. Mentioned by Lambert as an SDS UCO who 'would have involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison page 214). Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N16 / HN16 <br />
| ''[[James Straven_(alias)|James Straven]]'' and ''Kevin Crossland''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1997-2002 deployed into the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Brixton and Croydon Hunt Saboteurs. Used two cover names, including the identity of a dead child. Lied about having had relationships with women. One of them, 'Ellie', came forward.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN17]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Targeted right wing groups in 1990s (last 15 years of SDS existence).<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN18]]<br />
| ''[[Rob Harrison (alias)|Rob Harrison]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2004-2007 deployed into State of Emergency Collective, No Borders London, Globalise Resistance, rampART and the International Solidarity Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN19<br />
| ''[[Malcolm Shearing (alias)|Malcolm Shearing]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1981 to 1985 deployed into Revolutionary Communist Party &amp; Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist/Leninist). Arrested and cautioned for bill posting. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN20<br />
| ''[[Tony Williams (alias)|Tony Williams]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978 to 1982 deployed into the Revolutionary Communist Tendency and Direct Action Movement. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN21]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1970s / early 1980s against one group & reported on others. Ruled that real and cover names to be restricted on mental health grounds. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN23]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1990s. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN25]]<br />
| ''Kevin Douglas''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 deployed into the Troops Out Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN26<br />
| ''[[Christine Green (alias)|Christine Green]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1994-1999 into animal rights groups including Animal Liberation Front, London Animal Action and West London Hunt Saboteurs.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN27]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of left wing groups in the 1990s. In 60s. Ruling made that real and cover names will be restricted on grounds the officer is 'at risk to life and limb' given the nature of deployment and activities undertaken. Mentioned in Ellison.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN28<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups and reported on others in last 15 years of SDS. Minded to: restrict real and cover names as at risk of serious violence if identity discovered.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/201805223-PN_SDS_MT_9.pdf 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad Ruling on HN122], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref> Had been directed to file anonymity application by 24/27 April 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.19Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180419_direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 April 2018.</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180426_HN28_application.pdf Open application over real and cover names (26 Apr 2018)]<br />
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30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN33/98<br />
| ''[[Lee Bonser (alias)|Kathryn Lesley 'Lee' Bonser]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Socialist Workers Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN40|N40]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Undercover in last decade of the unit.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> Mentioned in relation to how information from the SDS, particularly on the identities of protestors, was passed on to the rest of the police (Herne II, 13.4, 24.1.3).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN41]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in the 1970s and 1980s, of which the principle target group no longer exists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N43<br />
| Peter Francis, a.k.a. ''Peter Daley / Johnson / Black''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1993-1997 infiltrated Youth against Racism in Europe and Militant & Socialist Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN44<br />
| ''Darren Prowse''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Tasked to infiltrate the British National Party in 2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.5June2018">Email to core participants, '20180605_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN44_HN155_HN303', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS-CL_HN44_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] 26 Feb 2018 (published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref>) which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Mitting wrote (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
:: HN44 is a serving Metropolitan Police officer. In the last period of existence of the Special Duties Squad he was deployed to build a legend to permit him to infiltrate violent elements of one group. The Special Duties Squad was closed and his deployment was ended before he had succeeded in doing so. His evidence about the closure of the Squad is likely to be of interest to the Inquiry. In the (very) unlikely event that any member of he target group can provide or wishes to provide any information about him, publication of his cover name, which ill occur, is all that is required to prompt them to do so. Publication of his real name would give rise to a eal risk of interference in the private and family life of HN44 and his family and a contingent risk to their safety. It is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. It would be neither proportionate nor justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN45<br />
| ''[[Dave Robertson (alias)|Dave Robertson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| 1970-1973 infiltrated Banner Books, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and maoist groups in North London. Worked in back office in SDS in adminstrative role for 3 years in 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN48<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN53|HN53/N53]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1980s; Second in Operational Command of SDS 1998-2005 (Det. Insp.). Though evidence is of importance to Inquiry, there is a contingent physical risk which justifies restricting real and cover names. Mentioned in Herne I & II, and Ellison. Ruled that neither real or cover names can be released by the Inquiry.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN56<br />
| ''[[Alan 'Nick' Nicholson (alias)|Alan 'Nick' Nicholson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1990-1991 targeted British National Party.<ref name = covernamesApril>Undercover Policing Inquiry, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ Update of Cover names page], ucpi.org.uk, 17 April 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN58]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| DCI in charge of SDS 1997 - 2001. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN60<br />
| ''[[Dave Evans (alias)|Dave Evans]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2005 deployed into Socialist Workers Party, London Animal Action & Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN64]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in 1990s and reported on others.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN65<br />
| ''John Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1980 - 1984 targeted Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN65_application.pdf Application made to restrict real and cover names] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/> [https://cnduk.org/statement-on-police-infiltration-of-cnd/ CND statement]<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
In March 2018, Mitting wrote:<br />
:: N65 is a sexagenarian. HN65 was deployed against one group in the early 1980s. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry. The group, which was well known, posed no serious threat to public order. Its embers posed,and pose, no risk to the safety of HN65. One of the issues which the Inquiry must investigate, publicly, is why HN65 was deployed against the group and what, if anything, was done with intelligence provided on it by HN65. HN65 is likely to be the principal, perhaps only, source of information about these issues. Publication of the cover name of HN65, together with the name of the group infiltrated, should prompt further information and evidence from members of the group, likely to be of value to the Inquiry.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN66<br />
| ''[[Edward David Jones (alias)|Edward David Jones (Bob the Builder, Edge, Dave)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against London Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action (Drax) 2005-2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.8Jan2018">Email to core participants, '20190108-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN66', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 January 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> In 60s.<br />
<br />
HN66 is the same as the NPOIU officer EN327.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180502_press_notice_NPOIU_anonymity.pdf Press Notice: 'Minded to' note: applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN67<br />
| ''[[Alan Bond (alias)|Alan Bond]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1981- 86 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="email.ucpi.7June2018">Email to core participants, '20180607_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN67_HN68_HAB_CP19', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Admits to having a 'fleeting sexual encounter in his cover name with one woman who was not a member of his target group'. Later second in command of SDS for three years in 1990s. Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN68<br />
| ''[[Sean Lynch (alias)|Sean Lynch]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1968-74 infiltrated Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign and Sinn Féin (London). Held managerial position in SDS 1982-84. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN71]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in 1990s and 2000s / last 15 years of the existence of the SDS.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HN7Ruling.27Mar2018">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Final-ruling-following-21-March-hearing.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad Ruling 5 ], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN72]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed for short period in 1980s into one group (inferred as 1986-1987). Held significant managerial position in SDS (approx 2005/6), after Macpherson; considered to have important evidence to give regarding spying on the Lawrence family. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN76]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in last years of the SDS into one group and reported on others. Mitting has ruled real and cover names will be restricted as HN76 is a serving police officer 'engaged in sensitive duties', so it would not be in the public interest to 'put performance of those duties at risk'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN77<br />
| ''[[Jackie Anderson (alias)|Jaqueline "Jackie" Anderson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2000-2005 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and the WOMBLES.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN78<br />
| ''[[Bobby_Lewis| Anthony "Bobby" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1991 - 1995 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190716-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN78_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 16 July 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Previously described as deployed Summer 1991-1995 deployed into left wing groups, including some near the Lawrence campaign; joined Special Branch 1986, and SDS in 1991 - leaving that unit by 1996. (Herne II, 12.2; Ellison, 6.4). Aware of Peter Francis' role; said he heard nothing indicating material to smear the Lawrences was being sought (Herne II, 21.1.14; Ellison, 6.3(p), 6.4). Considerable material from him covered in section 6.4 of the Ellison Review (Vol.1).<ref name="herne.2"/><ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN78 is a sexagenarian. HN78 was deployed into two or three groups in the early 1990s. HN78 admits to a relationship with a member of the opposite sex during the deployment. The Inquiry must investigate deployments into these groups, including that of HN78... Further, members of the target groups must have the opportunity to give evidence about the deployment of HN78. To do that, they will need to know the cover name. <br />
<br />
Decision to restrict real name but publish cover name reiterated on 6 June 2018, when Mitting wrote:<ref name="ucpi.minded-to10.6June2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180606-Minded_to_10_and_ruling_9.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' note 10 and Ruling 9], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 June 2018.</ref><br />
: I repeat the reasons set out in the "minded to" note 6 dated 22 March 2018. Further, HN78 has now provided a detailed personal statement in support of the application for a restriction order in respect of the cover name. It provides information about the reasons for the deployments referred to in paragraph 20 of "minded to" note 6, which must be explored in public. It is also necessary that the cover name of HN78 is published, to permit members of the target groups to provide evidence about the deployments and their own activities.<br />
: The reasons for the ruling are those set out in the closed note referred to in paragraph 21 of "minded to" note 6 and in the closed note which accompanies this ruling.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN79<br />
| ''Ross 'RossCo' MacInnes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 tasked against the United British Alliance.<br />
<br />
22 Mar 2018: minded to: restrict real name, and noted:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
:: HN79 was the last undercover officer to be recruited into the Special Duties Squad. He was not fully deployed: the Squad was disbanded before he could be. He found the experience a stressful and unhappy one. He is a serving police officer and is concerned about the impact of the disclosure, in connection with his would-be role as an undercover officer in the Squad, of his real name on his current police duties and on his family. <br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name released April 2018. Ruling of May 2018: real name restricted; application over cover name rejected.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
26 Feb 2018: MPS submit [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180226-MPS-HN79_Application.pdf application to restrict real name only].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN80<br />
| ''Colin Clark''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1977-1982 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name and groups released 26 June 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018">Email to core participants, '20180626_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN80_HN88_HN90_HN106_HN340', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names]</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN80_application.pdf Application made to restrict cover and real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN80 is a septuagenarian. HN80 was deployed as an undercover officer against one group in the late 1970s and early 1980s and encountered and reported on many others. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry because of its length and range and because, according to HN80, it involved a good deal of self-tasking. Publication of the cover name of HN80 may prompt information or evidence from those who encountered HN80 during the deployment. Publication of the real name of HN80 is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would interfere with the right ofHN80 to respect for private and family life. HN80 has expressed fears, which do not appear to be objectively justified, about the risk of violence posed by former targets and their associates. I am prepared to accept that the fears are genuinely held. On the basis of what is t present known, it would be neither proportionate nor justified under article 8(2) of the European Convention to override those fears by refusing to make a restriction order in respect of the real name. <br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[N81|HN81 / N81]]<br />
| ''Dave Hagan''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1996-2001 targeted Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy and Movement for Justice. Referred to extensively in the [[Ellison Review]] in relation to the targeting of the family of Stephen Lawrence. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN82<br />
| ''Nicholas Green''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1982 to 1986 into Socialist Workers Party and Red Action.<ref>Email to core participants, '20180814-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN82_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 August 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> (Previously described as being deployed against two groups in 1980s, one of which said to be violent.) Deceased. Risk assessor finds no risk to safety of his widow, but she has expressed concern all the same, and 'feels' the risk is real. Mitting in his Minded-To of March 2018 indicates the real name shall be restricted while opportunity given to widow of HN82 to make a personal representation at a closed hearing about publication of cover name. Mitting not prepared to act on something vague, but given chance HN82's real name could be discovered via his cover name, the Chair is giving her a chance to make a representation at a closed hearing in respect of the cover name. A closed note also accompanies the open reasons provided in the Minded To.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018 (accessed 10 March 2018).</ref> Subsequent to this, the Inquiry website at unknown date listed the cover name as 'to be published'. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| [[HN83]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in mid-1980s; name restricted due to risk to officer's personal safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N85 / HN85<br />
| [[Roger Pearce]] a.k.a. ''Roger Thorley''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1980-1984 infiltrated Freedom Press and anarchist groups. Later Head of Special Branch and Director of Intelligence for Metropolitan Police Service. Mentioned in the first Operation Herne report and the Ellison Review.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN86|HN86 / N86]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| SDS undercover in late 1970s / early 1980s 'against groups whose principle activities during that time are outside the terms of reference of the Inquiry'. Later Det. Ch. Insp. in operational charge of the SDS for a period in 1990s, and temporary head of S Squad. Mentioned by Herne and Ellison, inlcuding in relation to spying on the Lawrence family. Mitting has ruled the real and cover names will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN87]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s/1990s. Real and cover names restricted for reasons which cannot be made public.<ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN88<br />
| ''[[Timothy Spence (alias)|Timothy Spence]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated the Stoke Newington and Hackney Defence Campaign and the Hackney Campaign Against the Police Bill. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN89 / N89<br />
| ''cover name to come''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated far right in 1990s and 'involved in public order situations where left and right attended'; contemporary of Peter Francis who would confide in N89.<ref name="ellison.1"/> Deceased; real and cover names to be published as no application made to restrict details (Nov 2017 minded-to).<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN90<br />
| ''Mark Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1988-1992 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party and City of London Anti-Apartheid Group.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018"/><br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN90_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
March 2018: Mitting minded to publish cover name but restrict real name, writing:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN90 is a sexagenarian. HN90 was deployed into one group, after a short deployment in another, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The deployment appears to have been unremarkable. The risk to the safety of HN90 arising out of it is nil or negligible. The deployment is, nevertheless, of significant interest to the Inquiry, for at least two reasons: it spanned the period during which the Cold War ended and the focus of undercover deployments may have changed; and it included reporting on Poll Tax demonstrations. Fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry requires that these issues are explored publicly and that those with whom HN90 may have interacted have the opportunity of providing information or evidence about the deployment... It does not require that the real name of HN90 is published.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN91]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in last period of SDS. Neither group poses a threat, but the officer is currently serving in a 'valuable and sensitve role' so real or cover name are to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN95<br />
| ''Stefan Wesolowski''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1985-1988 deployed into Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> <br />
<br />
Apr 2018: Mitting said he was minded-to refuse application to restrict real name, saying:<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/><br />
:: His deployment was problematical and was terminated by his managers abruptly in 1988. He was medically retired soon after. Little or nothing is known about his current circumstances or concerns, save that it is believed he is aware of the attempts which have been made to contact him in connection with the Inquiry. If he is, he has not responded to them.<br />
:: The [MPS] has made an application for a restriction order in respect of his real name. The grounds of the application are generic. They do not identify the respects, if any, in which his right to respect for his private and family life would be infringed by publication of his real name, beyond referring to a paragraph in the risk assessment created on 27 February 2018 which is, itself, generic.... I am not willing to make a restriction order on Article 8 grounds without some good reason for believing that the right to respect for private and family life would be infringed if real or cover name were published. In the case of HN95, I have no such reason. Further, the real name of HN95 and the circumstances in which he came to join and leave the [SDS] are know to responsible journalists. The latter have been put into the public domain by them. I have no reason to believe that any attempt will be made to restrain publication of that which they know - the real name of HN95. In those circumstances, it would be futile to make a restriction order in respect of the real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN96<br />
| ''[[Michael James (alias)|Michael James]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978-1983 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party & Troop Out Movement.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN97]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s into one group and reported on many others. Ruled that real and cover names will be restricted due to a risk to HN97 which cannot be made public.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN101]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party in 1990s. Contemporary of [[Peter Francis]], and according to [[Bob Lambert]], had 'an involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison, p. 214).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN102]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into anarchist groups in the 1980s. Mitting has restricted real and cover names on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN104<br />
| ''[[Carlo Neri (alias)|Carlo Neri]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed March 2000 to Summer 2006 into Socialist Party and No Platform / Antifa.<br />
<br />
Real name known to the activists he spied upon, and who exposed him.<ref name="mitting.supp.minded-to.23Oct2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171023-supplementary-Minded-to.pdf Supplementary 'Minded-To'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2017 (accessed 23 October 2017 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> During the public hearing of 21 November, it was recognised that Carlo's real name was going to be published, the matter effectively reduced to who did it.<ref name="ucpi.hearing.transcript.21Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171121-Anonymity-application-hearing-day-2-Draft-Transcript.pdf Transcript of hearing of 21 November 2017], Undercover Policing Inquiry, 21 November 2017.</ref> whcih was acknowledged in a ruling of Dec 2017.<ref name="ucpi.HN104.20Dec2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171220-HN-104-Ruling.pdf On the application of HN104 for a restriction order in respect of his real name], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry", 20 December 2017.</ref> Discussions on how to publish the name, while respecting rights of the family are on-going (17 July 2018).<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180717-SDS_anonymity_direction_HN104.pdf Application for a restriction order in respect of HN104 - Direction], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN106<br />
| ''[[Barry_Tomkins_(alias)|Barry Tomkins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1979-1983 deployed into the Spartacist League of Britain. Ruled real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN109]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s; later a Det. Insp. in SDS in 1995 (1980s/1990s). Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN112]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 in training though never actually deployed. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN118<br />
| ''[[Simon Wellings (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 2001-2004 (2007) into Globalise Resistance, Socialist Workers Party and Dissent!<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN122<br />
| ''Neil Richardson''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Revolutionary Communist Party & Class War 1989-1993.<ref name="email.ucpi.12Feb2019">Email to core participants, '20190212-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN122', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 12 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN123]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into left wing groups 1993-1998, one of which 'advocated and practiced the use of violence'. Retired from MPS on health grounds & later diagnosed with a mental health condition in part derived from his deployment. Said to have played a part in activities connected to the spying on the Lawrences. Mentioned in both Ellison Review and Herne II. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN125]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a single left wing group in 1980s. Real and cover names to be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN126]]<br />
| ''Paul Gray''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the Socialist Workers Party and Anti-Nazi League 1977-1982.<ref name="email.ucpi.25June2019">Email to core participants, '20190625-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN126_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN135 / [[Mike Ferguson]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated anti-apartheid campaigners including the 'Stop the Seventy' campaign - 1969-1970. Real name given in ''True Spies'' series.<br />
<br />
20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications applications were to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Mar2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: closed hearing to take place.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> July 2018: 'further investigation necessary befor application to restrict the cover name can be determined. The real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
29 Oct 2019: real name released as already in public domain (see ''True Spies''), but cover name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling16.29Oct2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191029-sds_anonymity-ruling_16_san.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Ruling 16'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 29 October 2019.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN155]]<br />
| ''Phil Cooper''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1979/80 to January 1984. Ruled that real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN200<br />
| ''Roger Harris''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1974-1977. <br />
<br />
Minded-To (March 2018): real name cannot be published; cover name to be published.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
Details released 17 July 2018).<ref name="email.ucpi.14July2018">Email to core participants, '20180717_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN25_HN200_direction_HN104', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 July2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Currently in 70s. Deployment apparently unremarkable. Mitting: no reason to publish real name; and HN200 and wife are concerned about media intrustion.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN218 / N218<br />
| [[Barry Moss]] a.k.a.''Barry Morris''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968 into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018"/><br />
<br />
Cover name and real name to be published as no restriction order application made.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> Cover name released May 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018">Email to core participants, '20180501_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN3_HN19_HN20_HN60_HN218_HN353', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 1 May 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Herne II, para. 25.1.2 states: The MPS Director of Intelligence in 1999 has been interviewed by Operation Herne and stated, 'I have been asked if I recall 'any Special Branch plans to mislead the Macpherson Inquiry' into the death of Stephen Lawrence. For part of this time, I was head of Special Branch operations and have no recollection of any such plans.’ Peter Francis has alleged that N218 came out to see him in respect of withholding information from the Macpherson Inquiry. In interview, N218 stated that this meeting or request never happened.<ref name="herne.2"/> There is a strong probablility that N218 is former Special Branch commander [[Barry Moss]].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN241<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into one group in 1970s. Ruling (20 Feb 2018): real and cover names to be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling.20Feb18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-ruling-SDS-anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 4 March 2018).</ref> No allegation of misconduct. Arrested but not charged on one occasion.<ref name="hn241.ra">Brian Lockie, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20171221-HN241-Risk-Assessment.pdf HN241 Risk assessment (open version)], ''Metropolitan Police'', 3 October 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN294]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968-1969 into a group that no longer exists, and reported on others. Held a managerial position in the SDS 1969-1974. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN296<br />
| ''Geoff Wallace''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party from 1975 to 1978;<ref name="email.ucpi.4June2019">Email to core participants, '20190604-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN296_cover_name', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 4 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> no known allegation of misconduct against him. Currently in late 60s.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
He does not live in the UK but is willing to cooperate with the Inquiry.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18"/> Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN297<br />
| Richard Clark a.k.a. ''[[Rick Gibson (alias)|Rick Gibson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated Troop Out Movement 1974-1976 and tasked to infiltrate Big Flame - discovered and confronted by them in 1976. Multiple sexual relationships. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN298<br />
| ''[[Michael Scott (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971 to 1976 into the Young Liberals, Anti-Apartheid Movement and Workers Revolutionary Party. Convicted in 1972 under his cover name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. His cover surname has not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323 / Helen Crampton<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| Mike Tyrell, ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1968 to mid-1970 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in ''True Spies'' under the pseudonym 'Dan'.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover &amp; manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''Bob Chippendale''<ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21138412-20210421-ctis_t1p2_opening_statement Counsel to the Inquiry' Opening Statement for Tranche 1, Phase 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 April 2021.</ref><br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969-1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971-1976 against International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League & Troops Out Movement.<ref name="tw.ucpi.18Dec2018">[https://twitter.com/ucpinquiry/status/1074972312389197826 Cover name released: "David Hughes". Groups: International Marxist Group; Anti-Internment League; Troops Out Movement. Years active: 1971 - 1976.], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (Twitter.com)'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into Anti-Internment League and Northern Minorities Defence Force.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''[[Jill Mosdell]]''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] in 1971.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Women's Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Minded to restrict real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| [[Vincent Harvey]] a.k.a ''Vince Miller''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. <br />
|}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=SDS_undercover_list&diff=258665SDS undercover list2022-03-12T20:14:56Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=SDS undercover list|Description=A list of all publicly known officers who served undercover with the Special Demonstration Squad, 1968-2008}}<br />
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This page carries a full list of publicly identified undercover police officers who served with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]], their anonymity status within the Undercover Policing Inquiry, and with links to profiles were done. For a more comprehensive list of all N/HN officers in Operation Herne, Ellisor Review and the Undercover Policing Inquiry see the [[N officers]] page.<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* ''Updated 25 September 2019''<br />
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{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN1<br />
| ''[[Matt Rayner (alias)|Matt Rayner]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in north London 1991-1996, including London Boots Action Group, London Animal Action, Animal Liberation Front and West London Hunt Saboteurs. Engaged in sexual relationships. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN2]]<br />
| [[Andy Coles]] a.k.a. ''Andy Davey''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in south London 1991-1995; also targeted peace groups. Engaged in sexual relationships. Authored a version of the SDS Tradecraft manual. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN3<br />
| ''[[Jason Bishop (alias)|Jason Bishop]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2006 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and Disarm DSEi. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN4]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into two branches of one group in late 1980s/early 1990s.<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-PN-SDS-minded-to-11.pdf Press notice - 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N5 / HN5<br />
| [[John Dines]] a.k.a. ''John Barker''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 infiltrated London Greenpeace and Animal Liberation Front. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN6]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against three groups in 1990s. Cover and real name restricted due to risk of violence and mental health issues.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN7]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover officer.<br />
| Real and cover names restricted on health grounds. Targets & dates unknown.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN8]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover.<br />
| Deployed into one group in late 1980s / early 1990s. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted on grounds of a physical risk.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN9|N9 / HN9]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer. <br />
| Deployed into one group in 1980s; later was a cover officer for officers of interest deployed in 2000s. Named in Ellison Review. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted as HN9 at risk of suicide if details published.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N10 / HN10<br />
| [[Bob Lambert|Robert "Bob" Lambert]] a.k.a. ''Bob Robinson''<br />
| SDS undercover and head of unit.<br />
| Targeted animal rights groups in north London 1984-1989. Engaged in sexual relationships, including fathering a child by one activist. Later head of the SDS and took part in the Walton-N81 meeting.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN11<br />
| [[Mike Chitty]], a.k.a. ''Mike Blake''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1984-1987 deployed into animal rights groups in south London, including South London Animal Movement. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN12]]<br />
| ''Mike Hartley''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1982-1985, deployed into Revolutionary Communist Group and Socialist Workers Party. Engaged in sexual relationships. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN13]]<br />
| ''Barry / Desmond Loader''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) 1974/5-1978. Twice prosecuted for public order offences in his cover name and convicted once. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N14 / HN14<br />
| [[Jim Boyling]] a.k.a. ''"Grumpy" Jim Sutton''<br />
| SDS Undercover. <br />
| 1995-2000 deployed into Essex Hunt Saboteurs, Reclaim the Streets and Earth First! Engaged in sexual relationships and fathered children by an activist.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN15]]<br />
| [[Mark Jenner]] a.k.a. ''Mark Cassidy''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1995-2000 targeted Colin Roach Centre, Anti-Fascist Action, Independent Working Class Association, Republican Forum. Mentioned by Lambert as an SDS UCO who 'would have involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison page 214). Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N16 / HN16 <br />
| ''[[James Straven_(alias)|James Straven]]'' and ''Kevin Crossland''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1997-2002 deployed into the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Brixton and Croydon Hunt Saboteurs. Used two cover names, including the identity of a dead child. Lied about having had relationships with women. One of them, 'Ellie', came forward.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN17]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Targeted right wing groups in 1990s (last 15 years of SDS existence).<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN18]]<br />
| ''[[Rob Harrison (alias)|Rob Harrison]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2004-2007 deployed into State of Emergency Collective, No Borders London, Globalise Resistance, rampART and the International Solidarity Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN19<br />
| ''[[Malcolm Shearing (alias)|Malcolm Shearing]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1981 to 1985 deployed into Revolutionary Communist Party &amp; Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist/Leninist). Arrested and cautioned for bill posting. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN20<br />
| ''[[Tony Williams (alias)|Tony Williams]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978 to 1982 deployed into the Revolutionary Communist Tendency and Direct Action Movement. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN21]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1970s / early 1980s against one group & reported on others. Ruled that real and cover names to be restricted on mental health grounds. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN23]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1990s. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN25]]<br />
| ''Kevin Douglas''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 deployed into the Troops Out Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN26<br />
| ''[[Christine Green (alias)|Christine Green]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1994-1999 into animal rights groups including Animal Liberation Front, London Animal Action and West London Hunt Saboteurs.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN27]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of left wing groups in the 1990s. In 60s. Ruling made that real and cover names will be restricted on grounds the officer is 'at risk to life and limb' given the nature of deployment and activities undertaken. Mentioned in Ellison.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN28<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups and reported on others in last 15 years of SDS. Minded to: restrict real and cover names as at risk of serious violence if identity discovered.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/201805223-PN_SDS_MT_9.pdf 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad Ruling on HN122], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref> Had been directed to file anonymity application by 24/27 April 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.19Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180419_direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 April 2018.</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180426_HN28_application.pdf Open application over real and cover names (26 Apr 2018)]<br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN33/98<br />
| ''[[Lee Bonser (alias)|Kathryn Lesley 'Lee' Bonser]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Socialist Workers Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN40|N40]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Undercover in last decade of the unit.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> Mentioned in relation to how information from the SDS, particularly on the identities of protestors, was passed on to the rest of the police (Herne II, 13.4, 24.1.3).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN41]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in the 1970s and 1980s, of which the principle target group no longer exists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N43<br />
| Peter Francis, a.k.a. ''Peter Daley / Johnson / Black''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1993-1997 infiltrated Youth against Racism in Europe and Militant & Socialist Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN44<br />
| ''Darren Prowse''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Tasked to infiltrate the British National Party in 2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.5June2018">Email to core participants, '20180605_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN44_HN155_HN303', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS-CL_HN44_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] 26 Feb 2018 (published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref>) which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Mitting wrote (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
:: HN44 is a serving Metropolitan Police officer. In the last period of existence of the Special Duties Squad he was deployed to build a legend to permit him to infiltrate violent elements of one group. The Special Duties Squad was closed and his deployment was ended before he had succeeded in doing so. His evidence about the closure of the Squad is likely to be of interest to the Inquiry. In the (very) unlikely event that any member of he target group can provide or wishes to provide any information about him, publication of his cover name, which ill occur, is all that is required to prompt them to do so. Publication of his real name would give rise to a eal risk of interference in the private and family life of HN44 and his family and a contingent risk to their safety. It is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. It would be neither proportionate nor justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN45<br />
| ''[[Dave Robertson (alias)|Dave Robertson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| 1970-1973 infiltrated Banner Books, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and maoist groups in North London. Worked in back office in SDS in adminstrative role for 3 years in 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN48<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN53|HN53/N53]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1980s; Second in Operational Command of SDS 1998-2005 (Det. Insp.). Though evidence is of importance to Inquiry, there is a contingent physical risk which justifies restricting real and cover names. Mentioned in Herne I & II, and Ellison. Ruled that neither real or cover names can be released by the Inquiry.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN56<br />
| ''[[Alan 'Nick' Nicholson (alias)|Alan 'Nick' Nicholson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1990-1991 targeted British National Party.<ref name = covernamesApril>Undercover Policing Inquiry, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ Update of Cover names page], ucpi.org.uk, 17 April 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN58]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| DCI in charge of SDS 1997 - 2001. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN60<br />
| ''[[Dave Evans (alias)|Dave Evans]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2005 deployed into Socialist Workers Party, London Animal Action & Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN64]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in 1990s and reported on others.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN65<br />
| ''John Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1980 - 1984 targeted Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN65_application.pdf Application made to restrict real and cover names] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/> [https://cnduk.org/statement-on-police-infiltration-of-cnd/ CND statement]<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
In March 2018, Mitting wrote:<br />
:: N65 is a sexagenarian. HN65 was deployed against one group in the early 1980s. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry. The group, which was well known, posed no serious threat to public order. Its embers posed,and pose, no risk to the safety of HN65. One of the issues which the Inquiry must investigate, publicly, is why HN65 was deployed against the group and what, if anything, was done with intelligence provided on it by HN65. HN65 is likely to be the principal, perhaps only, source of information about these issues. Publication of the cover name of HN65, together with the name of the group infiltrated, should prompt further information and evidence from members of the group, likely to be of value to the Inquiry.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN66<br />
| ''[[Edward David Jones (alias)|Edward David Jones (Bob the Builder, Edge, Dave)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against London Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action (Drax) 2005-2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.8Jan2018">Email to core participants, '20190108-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN66', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 January 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> In 60s.<br />
<br />
HN66 is the same as the NPOIU officer EN327.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180502_press_notice_NPOIU_anonymity.pdf Press Notice: 'Minded to' note: applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN67<br />
| ''[[Alan Bond (alias)|Alan Bond]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1981- 86 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="email.ucpi.7June2018">Email to core participants, '20180607_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN67_HN68_HAB_CP19', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Admits to having a 'fleeting sexual encounter in his cover name with one woman who was not a member of his target group'. Later second in command of SDS for three years in 1990s. Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN68<br />
| ''[[Sean Lynch (alias)|Sean Lynch]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1968-74 infiltrated Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign and Sinn Féin (London). Held managerial position in SDS 1982-84. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN71]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in 1990s and 2000s / last 15 years of the existence of the SDS.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HN7Ruling.27Mar2018">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Final-ruling-following-21-March-hearing.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad Ruling 5 ], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN72]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed for short period in 1980s into one group (inferred as 1986-1987). Held significant managerial position in SDS (approx 2005/6), after Macpherson; considered to have important evidence to give regarding spying on the Lawrence family. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN76]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in last years of the SDS into one group and reported on others. Mitting has ruled real and cover names will be restricted as HN76 is a serving police officer 'engaged in sensitive duties', so it would not be in the public interest to 'put performance of those duties at risk'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN77<br />
| ''[[Jackie Anderson (alias)|Jaqueline "Jackie" Anderson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2000-2005 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and the WOMBLES.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN78<br />
| ''[[Bobby_Lewis| Anthony "Bobby" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1991 - 1995 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190716-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN78_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 16 July 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Previously described as deployed Summer 1991-1995 deployed into left wing groups, including some near the Lawrence campaign; joined Special Branch 1986, and SDS in 1991 - leaving that unit by 1996. (Herne II, 12.2; Ellison, 6.4). Aware of Peter Francis' role; said he heard nothing indicating material to smear the Lawrences was being sought (Herne II, 21.1.14; Ellison, 6.3(p), 6.4). Considerable material from him covered in section 6.4 of the Ellison Review (Vol.1).<ref name="herne.2"/><ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN78 is a sexagenarian. HN78 was deployed into two or three groups in the early 1990s. HN78 admits to a relationship with a member of the opposite sex during the deployment. The Inquiry must investigate deployments into these groups, including that of HN78... Further, members of the target groups must have the opportunity to give evidence about the deployment of HN78. To do that, they will need to know the cover name. <br />
<br />
Decision to restrict real name but publish cover name reiterated on 6 June 2018, when Mitting wrote:<ref name="ucpi.minded-to10.6June2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180606-Minded_to_10_and_ruling_9.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' note 10 and Ruling 9], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 June 2018.</ref><br />
: I repeat the reasons set out in the "minded to" note 6 dated 22 March 2018. Further, HN78 has now provided a detailed personal statement in support of the application for a restriction order in respect of the cover name. It provides information about the reasons for the deployments referred to in paragraph 20 of "minded to" note 6, which must be explored in public. It is also necessary that the cover name of HN78 is published, to permit members of the target groups to provide evidence about the deployments and their own activities.<br />
: The reasons for the ruling are those set out in the closed note referred to in paragraph 21 of "minded to" note 6 and in the closed note which accompanies this ruling.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN79<br />
| ''Ross 'RossCo' MacInnes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 tasked against the United British Alliance.<br />
<br />
22 Mar 2018: minded to: restrict real name, and noted:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
:: HN79 was the last undercover officer to be recruited into the Special Duties Squad. He was not fully deployed: the Squad was disbanded before he could be. He found the experience a stressful and unhappy one. He is a serving police officer and is concerned about the impact of the disclosure, in connection with his would-be role as an undercover officer in the Squad, of his real name on his current police duties and on his family. <br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name released April 2018. Ruling of May 2018: real name restricted; application over cover name rejected.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
26 Feb 2018: MPS submit [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180226-MPS-HN79_Application.pdf application to restrict real name only].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN80<br />
| ''Colin Clark''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1977-1982 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name and groups released 26 June 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018">Email to core participants, '20180626_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN80_HN88_HN90_HN106_HN340', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names]</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN80_application.pdf Application made to restrict cover and real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN80 is a septuagenarian. HN80 was deployed as an undercover officer against one group in the late 1970s and early 1980s and encountered and reported on many others. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry because of its length and range and because, according to HN80, it involved a good deal of self-tasking. Publication of the cover name of HN80 may prompt information or evidence from those who encountered HN80 during the deployment. Publication of the real name of HN80 is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would interfere with the right ofHN80 to respect for private and family life. HN80 has expressed fears, which do not appear to be objectively justified, about the risk of violence posed by former targets and their associates. I am prepared to accept that the fears are genuinely held. On the basis of what is t present known, it would be neither proportionate nor justified under article 8(2) of the European Convention to override those fears by refusing to make a restriction order in respect of the real name. <br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[N81|HN81 / N81]]<br />
| ''Dave Hagan''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1996-2001 targeted Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy and Movement for Justice. Referred to extensively in the [[Ellison Review]] in relation to the targeting of the family of Stephen Lawrence. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN82<br />
| ''Nicholas Green''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1982 to 1986 into Socialist Workers Party and Red Action.<ref>Email to core participants, '20180814-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN82_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 August 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> (Previously described as being deployed against two groups in 1980s, one of which said to be violent.) Deceased. Risk assessor finds no risk to safety of his widow, but she has expressed concern all the same, and 'feels' the risk is real. Mitting in his Minded-To of March 2018 indicates the real name shall be restricted while opportunity given to widow of HN82 to make a personal representation at a closed hearing about publication of cover name. Mitting not prepared to act on something vague, but given chance HN82's real name could be discovered via his cover name, the Chair is giving her a chance to make a representation at a closed hearing in respect of the cover name. A closed note also accompanies the open reasons provided in the Minded To.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018 (accessed 10 March 2018).</ref> Subsequent to this, the Inquiry website at unknown date listed the cover name as 'to be published'. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| [[HN83]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in mid-1980s; name restricted due to risk to officer's personal safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N85 / HN85<br />
| [[Roger Pearce]] a.k.a. ''Roger Thorley''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1980-1984 infiltrated Freedom Press and anarchist groups. Later Head of Special Branch and Director of Intelligence for Metropolitan Police Service. Mentioned in the first Operation Herne report and the Ellison Review.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN86|HN86 / N86]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| SDS undercover in late 1970s / early 1980s 'against groups whose principle activities during that time are outside the terms of reference of the Inquiry'. Later Det. Ch. Insp. in operational charge of the SDS for a period in 1990s, and temporary head of S Squad. Mentioned by Herne and Ellison, inlcuding in relation to spying on the Lawrence family. Mitting has ruled the real and cover names will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN87]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s/1990s. Real and cover names restricted for reasons which cannot be made public.<ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN88<br />
| ''[[Timothy Spence (alias)|Timothy Spence]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated the Stoke Newington and Hackney Defence Campaign and the Hackney Campaign Against the Police Bill. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN89 / N89<br />
| ''cover name to come''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated far right in 1990s and 'involved in public order situations where left and right attended'; contemporary of Peter Francis who would confide in N89.<ref name="ellison.1"/> Deceased; real and cover names to be published as no application made to restrict details (Nov 2017 minded-to).<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN90<br />
| ''Mark Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1988-1992 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party and City of London Anti-Apartheid Group.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018"/><br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN90_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
March 2018: Mitting minded to publish cover name but restrict real name, writing:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN90 is a sexagenarian. HN90 was deployed into one group, after a short deployment in another, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The deployment appears to have been unremarkable. The risk to the safety of HN90 arising out of it is nil or negligible. The deployment is, nevertheless, of significant interest to the Inquiry, for at least two reasons: it spanned the period during which the Cold War ended and the focus of undercover deployments may have changed; and it included reporting on Poll Tax demonstrations. Fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry requires that these issues are explored publicly and that those with whom HN90 may have interacted have the opportunity of providing information or evidence about the deployment... It does not require that the real name of HN90 is published.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN91]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in last period of SDS. Neither group poses a threat, but the officer is currently serving in a 'valuable and sensitve role' so real or cover name are to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN95<br />
| ''Stefan Wesolowski''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1985-1988 deployed into Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> <br />
<br />
Apr 2018: Mitting said he was minded-to refuse application to restrict real name, saying:<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/><br />
:: His deployment was problematical and was terminated by his managers abruptly in 1988. He was medically retired soon after. Little or nothing is known about his current circumstances or concerns, save that it is believed he is aware of the attempts which have been made to contact him in connection with the Inquiry. If he is, he has not responded to them.<br />
:: The [MPS] has made an application for a restriction order in respect of his real name. The grounds of the application are generic. They do not identify the respects, if any, in which his right to respect for his private and family life would be infringed by publication of his real name, beyond referring to a paragraph in the risk assessment created on 27 February 2018 which is, itself, generic.... I am not willing to make a restriction order on Article 8 grounds without some good reason for believing that the right to respect for private and family life would be infringed if real or cover name were published. In the case of HN95, I have no such reason. Further, the real name of HN95 and the circumstances in which he came to join and leave the [SDS] are know to responsible journalists. The latter have been put into the public domain by them. I have no reason to believe that any attempt will be made to restrain publication of that which they know - the real name of HN95. In those circumstances, it would be futile to make a restriction order in respect of the real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN96<br />
| ''[[Michael James (alias)|Michael James]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978-1983 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party & Troop Out Movement.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN97]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s into one group and reported on many others. Ruled that real and cover names will be restricted due to a risk to HN97 which cannot be made public.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN101]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party in 1990s. Contemporary of [[Peter Francis]], and according to [[Bob Lambert]], had 'an involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison, p. 214).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN102]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into anarchist groups in the 1980s. Mitting has restricted real and cover names on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN104<br />
| ''[[Carlo Neri (alias)|Carlo Neri]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed March 2000 to Summer 2006 into Socialist Party and No Platform / Antifa.<br />
<br />
Real name known to the activists he spied upon, and who exposed him.<ref name="mitting.supp.minded-to.23Oct2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171023-supplementary-Minded-to.pdf Supplementary 'Minded-To'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2017 (accessed 23 October 2017 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> During the public hearing of 21 November, it was recognised that Carlo's real name was going to be published, the matter effectively reduced to who did it.<ref name="ucpi.hearing.transcript.21Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171121-Anonymity-application-hearing-day-2-Draft-Transcript.pdf Transcript of hearing of 21 November 2017], Undercover Policing Inquiry, 21 November 2017.</ref> whcih was acknowledged in a ruling of Dec 2017.<ref name="ucpi.HN104.20Dec2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171220-HN-104-Ruling.pdf On the application of HN104 for a restriction order in respect of his real name], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry", 20 December 2017.</ref> Discussions on how to publish the name, while respecting rights of the family are on-going (17 July 2018).<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180717-SDS_anonymity_direction_HN104.pdf Application for a restriction order in respect of HN104 - Direction], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN106<br />
| ''[[Barry_Tomkins_(alias)|Barry Tomkins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1979-1983 deployed into the Spartacist League of Britain. Ruled real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN109]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s; later a Det. Insp. in SDS in 1995 (1980s/1990s). Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN112]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 in training though never actually deployed. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN118<br />
| ''[[Simon Wellings (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 2001-2004 (2007) into Globalise Resistance, Socialist Workers Party and Dissent!<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN122<br />
| ''Neil Richardson''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Revolutionary Communist Party & Class War 1989-1993.<ref name="email.ucpi.12Feb2019">Email to core participants, '20190212-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN122', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 12 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN123]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into left wing groups 1993-1998, one of which 'advocated and practiced the use of violence'. Retired from MPS on health grounds & later diagnosed with a mental health condition in part derived from his deployment. Said to have played a part in activities connected to the spying on the Lawrences. Mentioned in both Ellison Review and Herne II. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN125]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a single left wing group in 1980s. Real and cover names to be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN126]]<br />
| ''Paul Gray''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the Socialist Workers Party and Anti-Nazi League 1977-1982.<ref name="email.ucpi.25June2019">Email to core participants, '20190625-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN126_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN135 / [[Mike Ferguson]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated anti-apartheid campaigners including the 'Stop the Seventy' campaign - 1969-1970. Real name given in ''True Spies'' series.<br />
<br />
20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications applications were to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Mar2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: closed hearing to take place.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> July 2018: 'further investigation necessary befor application to restrict the cover name can be determined. The real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
29 Oct 2019: real name released as already in public domain (see ''True Spies''), but cover name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling16.29Oct2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191029-sds_anonymity-ruling_16_san.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Ruling 16'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 29 October 2019.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN155]]<br />
| ''Phil Cooper''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1979/80 to January 1984. Ruled that real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN200<br />
| ''Roger Harris''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1974-1977. <br />
<br />
Minded-To (March 2018): real name cannot be published; cover name to be published.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
Details released 17 July 2018).<ref name="email.ucpi.14July2018">Email to core participants, '20180717_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN25_HN200_direction_HN104', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 July2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Currently in 70s. Deployment apparently unremarkable. Mitting: no reason to publish real name; and HN200 and wife are concerned about media intrustion.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN218 / N218<br />
| [[Barry Moss]] a.k.a.''Barry Morris''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968 into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018"/><br />
<br />
Cover name and real name to be published as no restriction order application made.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> Cover name released May 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018">Email to core participants, '20180501_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN3_HN19_HN20_HN60_HN218_HN353', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 1 May 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Herne II, para. 25.1.2 states: The MPS Director of Intelligence in 1999 has been interviewed by Operation Herne and stated, 'I have been asked if I recall 'any Special Branch plans to mislead the Macpherson Inquiry' into the death of Stephen Lawrence. For part of this time, I was head of Special Branch operations and have no recollection of any such plans.’ Peter Francis has alleged that N218 came out to see him in respect of withholding information from the Macpherson Inquiry. In interview, N218 stated that this meeting or request never happened.<ref name="herne.2"/> There is a strong probablility that N218 is former Special Branch commander [[Barry Moss]].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN241<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into one group in 1970s. Ruling (20 Feb 2018): real and cover names to be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling.20Feb18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-ruling-SDS-anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 4 March 2018).</ref> No allegation of misconduct. Arrested but not charged on one occasion.<ref name="hn241.ra">Brian Lockie, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20171221-HN241-Risk-Assessment.pdf HN241 Risk assessment (open version)], ''Metropolitan Police'', 3 October 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN294]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968-1969 into a group that no longer exists, and reported on others. Held a managerial position in the SDS 1969-1974. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN296<br />
| ''Geoff Wallace''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party from 1975 to 1978;<ref name="email.ucpi.4June2019">Email to core participants, '20190604-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN296_cover_name', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 4 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> no known allegation of misconduct against him. Currently in late 60s.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
He does not live in the UK but is willing to cooperate with the Inquiry.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18"/> Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN297<br />
| Richard Clark a.k.a. ''[[Rick Gibson (alias)|Rick Gibson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated Troop Out Movement 1974-1976 and tasked to infiltrate Big Flame - discovered and confronted by them in 1976. Multiple sexual relationships. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN298<br />
| ''[[Michael Scott (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971 to 1976 into the Young Liberals, Anti-Apartheid Movement and Workers Revolutionary Party. Convicted in 1972 under his cover name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. His cover surname has not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323 / Helen Crampton<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| Mike Tyrell, ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1968 to mid-1970 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in ''True Spies'' under the pseudonym 'Dan'.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover &amp; manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969-1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971-1976 against International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League & Troops Out Movement.<ref name="tw.ucpi.18Dec2018">[https://twitter.com/ucpinquiry/status/1074972312389197826 Cover name released: "David Hughes". Groups: International Marxist Group; Anti-Internment League; Troops Out Movement. Years active: 1971 - 1976.], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (Twitter.com)'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into Anti-Internment League and Northern Minorities Defence Force.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''[[Jill Mosdell]]''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] in 1971.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Women's Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Minded to restrict real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| [[Vincent Harvey]] a.k.a ''Vince Miller''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=SDS_undercover_list&diff=258664SDS undercover list2022-03-12T18:19:28Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=SDS undercover list|Description=A list of all publicly known officers who served undercover with the Special Demonstration Squad, 1968-2008}}<br />
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This page carries a full list of publicly identified undercover police officers who served with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]], their anonymity status within the Undercover Policing Inquiry, and with links to profiles were done. For a more comprehensive list of all N/HN officers in Operation Herne, Ellisor Review and the Undercover Policing Inquiry see the [[N officers]] page.<br />
<br />
Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
<br />
* ''Updated 25 September 2019''<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN1<br />
| ''[[Matt Rayner (alias)|Matt Rayner]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in north London 1991-1996, including London Boots Action Group, London Animal Action, Animal Liberation Front and West London Hunt Saboteurs. Engaged in sexual relationships. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN2]]<br />
| [[Andy Coles]] a.k.a. ''Andy Davey''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in south London 1991-1995; also targeted peace groups. Engaged in sexual relationships. Authored a version of the SDS Tradecraft manual. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN3<br />
| ''[[Jason Bishop (alias)|Jason Bishop]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2006 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and Disarm DSEi. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN4]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into two branches of one group in late 1980s/early 1990s.<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-PN-SDS-minded-to-11.pdf Press notice - 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N5 / HN5<br />
| [[John Dines]] a.k.a. ''John Barker''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 infiltrated London Greenpeace and Animal Liberation Front. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN6]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against three groups in 1990s. Cover and real name restricted due to risk of violence and mental health issues.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN7]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover officer.<br />
| Real and cover names restricted on health grounds. Targets & dates unknown.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN8]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover.<br />
| Deployed into one group in late 1980s / early 1990s. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted on grounds of a physical risk.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN9|N9 / HN9]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer. <br />
| Deployed into one group in 1980s; later was a cover officer for officers of interest deployed in 2000s. Named in Ellison Review. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted as HN9 at risk of suicide if details published.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N10 / HN10<br />
| [[Bob Lambert|Robert "Bob" Lambert]] a.k.a. ''Bob Robinson''<br />
| SDS undercover and head of unit.<br />
| Targeted animal rights groups in north London 1984-1989. Engaged in sexual relationships, including fathering a child by one activist. Later head of the SDS and took part in the Walton-N81 meeting.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN11<br />
| [[Mike Chitty]], a.k.a. ''Mike Blake''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1984-1987 deployed into animal rights groups in south London, including South London Animal Movement. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN12]]<br />
| ''Mike Hartley''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1982-1985, deployed into Revolutionary Communist Group and Socialist Workers Party. Engaged in sexual relationships. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN13]]<br />
| ''Barry / Desmond Loader''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) 1974/5-1978. Twice prosecuted for public order offences in his cover name and convicted once. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N14 / HN14<br />
| [[Jim Boyling]] a.k.a. ''"Grumpy" Jim Sutton''<br />
| SDS Undercover. <br />
| 1995-2000 deployed into Essex Hunt Saboteurs, Reclaim the Streets and Earth First! Engaged in sexual relationships and fathered children by an activist.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN15]]<br />
| [[Mark Jenner]] a.k.a. ''Mark Cassidy''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1995-2000 targeted Colin Roach Centre, Anti-Fascist Action, Independent Working Class Association, Republican Forum. Mentioned by Lambert as an SDS UCO who 'would have involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison page 214). Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N16 / HN16 <br />
| ''[[James Straven_(alias)|James Straven]]'' and ''Kevin Crossland''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1997-2002 deployed into the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Brixton and Croydon Hunt Saboteurs. Used two cover names, including the identity of a dead child. Lied about having had relationships with women. One of them, 'Ellie', came forward.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN17]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Targeted right wing groups in 1990s (last 15 years of SDS existence).<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN18]]<br />
| ''[[Rob Harrison (alias)|Rob Harrison]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2004-2007 deployed into State of Emergency Collective, No Borders London, Globalise Resistance, rampART and the International Solidarity Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN19<br />
| ''[[Malcolm Shearing (alias)|Malcolm Shearing]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1981 to 1985 deployed into Revolutionary Communist Party &amp; Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist/Leninist). Arrested and cautioned for bill posting. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN20<br />
| ''[[Tony Williams (alias)|Tony Williams]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978 to 1982 deployed into the Revolutionary Communist Tendency and Direct Action Movement. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN21]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1970s / early 1980s against one group & reported on others. Ruled that real and cover names to be restricted on mental health grounds. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN23]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1990s. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN25]]<br />
| ''Kevin Douglas''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 deployed into the Troops Out Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN26<br />
| ''[[Christine Green (alias)|Christine Green]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1994-1999 into animal rights groups including Animal Liberation Front, London Animal Action and West London Hunt Saboteurs.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN27]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of left wing groups in the 1990s. In 60s. Ruling made that real and cover names will be restricted on grounds the officer is 'at risk to life and limb' given the nature of deployment and activities undertaken. Mentioned in Ellison.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN28<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups and reported on others in last 15 years of SDS. Minded to: restrict real and cover names as at risk of serious violence if identity discovered.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/201805223-PN_SDS_MT_9.pdf 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad Ruling on HN122], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref> Had been directed to file anonymity application by 24/27 April 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.19Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180419_direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 April 2018.</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180426_HN28_application.pdf Open application over real and cover names (26 Apr 2018)]<br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN33/98<br />
| ''[[Lee Bonser (alias)|Kathryn Lesley 'Lee' Bonser]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Socialist Workers Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN40|N40]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Undercover in last decade of the unit.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> Mentioned in relation to how information from the SDS, particularly on the identities of protestors, was passed on to the rest of the police (Herne II, 13.4, 24.1.3).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN41]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in the 1970s and 1980s, of which the principle target group no longer exists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N43<br />
| Peter Francis, a.k.a. ''Peter Daley / Johnson / Black''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1993-1997 infiltrated Youth against Racism in Europe and Militant & Socialist Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN44<br />
| ''Darren Prowse''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Tasked to infiltrate the British National Party in 2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.5June2018">Email to core participants, '20180605_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN44_HN155_HN303', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS-CL_HN44_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] 26 Feb 2018 (published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref>) which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Mitting wrote (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
:: HN44 is a serving Metropolitan Police officer. In the last period of existence of the Special Duties Squad he was deployed to build a legend to permit him to infiltrate violent elements of one group. The Special Duties Squad was closed and his deployment was ended before he had succeeded in doing so. His evidence about the closure of the Squad is likely to be of interest to the Inquiry. In the (very) unlikely event that any member of he target group can provide or wishes to provide any information about him, publication of his cover name, which ill occur, is all that is required to prompt them to do so. Publication of his real name would give rise to a eal risk of interference in the private and family life of HN44 and his family and a contingent risk to their safety. It is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. It would be neither proportionate nor justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN45<br />
| ''[[Dave Robertson (alias)|Dave Robertson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| 1970-1973 infiltrated Banner Books, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and maoist groups in North London. Worked in back office in SDS in adminstrative role for 3 years in 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN48<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN53|HN53/N53]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1980s; Second in Operational Command of SDS 1998-2005 (Det. Insp.). Though evidence is of importance to Inquiry, there is a contingent physical risk which justifies restricting real and cover names. Mentioned in Herne I & II, and Ellison. Ruled that neither real or cover names can be released by the Inquiry.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN56<br />
| ''[[Alan 'Nick' Nicholson (alias)|Alan 'Nick' Nicholson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1990-1991 targeted British National Party.<ref name = covernamesApril>Undercover Policing Inquiry, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ Update of Cover names page], ucpi.org.uk, 17 April 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN58]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| DCI in charge of SDS 1997 - 2001. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN60<br />
| ''[[Dave Evans (alias)|Dave Evans]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2005 deployed into Socialist Workers Party, London Animal Action & Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN64]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in 1990s and reported on others.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN65<br />
| ''John Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1980 - 1984 targeted Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN65_application.pdf Application made to restrict real and cover names] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/> [https://cnduk.org/statement-on-police-infiltration-of-cnd/ CND statement]<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
In March 2018, Mitting wrote:<br />
:: N65 is a sexagenarian. HN65 was deployed against one group in the early 1980s. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry. The group, which was well known, posed no serious threat to public order. Its embers posed,and pose, no risk to the safety of HN65. One of the issues which the Inquiry must investigate, publicly, is why HN65 was deployed against the group and what, if anything, was done with intelligence provided on it by HN65. HN65 is likely to be the principal, perhaps only, source of information about these issues. Publication of the cover name of HN65, together with the name of the group infiltrated, should prompt further information and evidence from members of the group, likely to be of value to the Inquiry.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN66<br />
| ''[[Edward David Jones (alias)|Edward David Jones (Bob the Builder, Edge, Dave)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against London Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action (Drax) 2005-2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.8Jan2018">Email to core participants, '20190108-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN66', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 January 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> In 60s.<br />
<br />
HN66 is the same as the NPOIU officer EN327.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180502_press_notice_NPOIU_anonymity.pdf Press Notice: 'Minded to' note: applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN67<br />
| ''[[Alan Bond (alias)|Alan Bond]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1981- 86 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="email.ucpi.7June2018">Email to core participants, '20180607_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN67_HN68_HAB_CP19', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Admits to having a 'fleeting sexual encounter in his cover name with one woman who was not a member of his target group'. Later second in command of SDS for three years in 1990s. Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN68<br />
| ''[[Sean Lynch (alias)|Sean Lynch]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1968-74 infiltrated Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign and Sinn Féin (London). Held managerial position in SDS 1982-84. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN71]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in 1990s and 2000s / last 15 years of the existence of the SDS.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HN7Ruling.27Mar2018">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Final-ruling-following-21-March-hearing.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad Ruling 5 ], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN72]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed for short period in 1980s into one group (inferred as 1986-1987). Held significant managerial position in SDS (approx 2005/6), after Macpherson; considered to have important evidence to give regarding spying on the Lawrence family. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN76]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in last years of the SDS into one group and reported on others. Mitting has ruled real and cover names will be restricted as HN76 is a serving police officer 'engaged in sensitive duties', so it would not be in the public interest to 'put performance of those duties at risk'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN77<br />
| ''[[Jackie Anderson (alias)|Jaqueline "Jackie" Anderson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2000-2005 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and the WOMBLES.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN78<br />
| ''[[Bobby_Lewis| Anthony "Bobby" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1991 - 1995 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190716-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN78_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 16 July 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Previously described as deployed Summer 1991-1995 deployed into left wing groups, including some near the Lawrence campaign; joined Special Branch 1986, and SDS in 1991 - leaving that unit by 1996. (Herne II, 12.2; Ellison, 6.4). Aware of Peter Francis' role; said he heard nothing indicating material to smear the Lawrences was being sought (Herne II, 21.1.14; Ellison, 6.3(p), 6.4). Considerable material from him covered in section 6.4 of the Ellison Review (Vol.1).<ref name="herne.2"/><ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN78 is a sexagenarian. HN78 was deployed into two or three groups in the early 1990s. HN78 admits to a relationship with a member of the opposite sex during the deployment. The Inquiry must investigate deployments into these groups, including that of HN78... Further, members of the target groups must have the opportunity to give evidence about the deployment of HN78. To do that, they will need to know the cover name. <br />
<br />
Decision to restrict real name but publish cover name reiterated on 6 June 2018, when Mitting wrote:<ref name="ucpi.minded-to10.6June2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180606-Minded_to_10_and_ruling_9.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' note 10 and Ruling 9], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 June 2018.</ref><br />
: I repeat the reasons set out in the "minded to" note 6 dated 22 March 2018. Further, HN78 has now provided a detailed personal statement in support of the application for a restriction order in respect of the cover name. It provides information about the reasons for the deployments referred to in paragraph 20 of "minded to" note 6, which must be explored in public. It is also necessary that the cover name of HN78 is published, to permit members of the target groups to provide evidence about the deployments and their own activities.<br />
: The reasons for the ruling are those set out in the closed note referred to in paragraph 21 of "minded to" note 6 and in the closed note which accompanies this ruling.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN79<br />
| ''Ross 'RossCo' MacInnes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 tasked against the United British Alliance.<br />
<br />
22 Mar 2018: minded to: restrict real name, and noted:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
:: HN79 was the last undercover officer to be recruited into the Special Duties Squad. He was not fully deployed: the Squad was disbanded before he could be. He found the experience a stressful and unhappy one. He is a serving police officer and is concerned about the impact of the disclosure, in connection with his would-be role as an undercover officer in the Squad, of his real name on his current police duties and on his family. <br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name released April 2018. Ruling of May 2018: real name restricted; application over cover name rejected.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
26 Feb 2018: MPS submit [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180226-MPS-HN79_Application.pdf application to restrict real name only].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN80<br />
| ''Colin Clark''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1977-1982 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name and groups released 26 June 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018">Email to core participants, '20180626_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN80_HN88_HN90_HN106_HN340', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names]</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN80_application.pdf Application made to restrict cover and real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN80 is a septuagenarian. HN80 was deployed as an undercover officer against one group in the late 1970s and early 1980s and encountered and reported on many others. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry because of its length and range and because, according to HN80, it involved a good deal of self-tasking. Publication of the cover name of HN80 may prompt information or evidence from those who encountered HN80 during the deployment. Publication of the real name of HN80 is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would interfere with the right ofHN80 to respect for private and family life. HN80 has expressed fears, which do not appear to be objectively justified, about the risk of violence posed by former targets and their associates. I am prepared to accept that the fears are genuinely held. On the basis of what is t present known, it would be neither proportionate nor justified under article 8(2) of the European Convention to override those fears by refusing to make a restriction order in respect of the real name. <br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[N81|HN81 / N81]]<br />
| ''Dave Hagan''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1996-2001 targeted Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy and Movement for Justice. Referred to extensively in the [[Ellison Review]] in relation to the targeting of the family of Stephen Lawrence. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN82<br />
| ''Nicholas Green''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1982 to 1986 into Socialist Workers Party and Red Action.<ref>Email to core participants, '20180814-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN82_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 August 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> (Previously described as being deployed against two groups in 1980s, one of which said to be violent.) Deceased. Risk assessor finds no risk to safety of his widow, but she has expressed concern all the same, and 'feels' the risk is real. Mitting in his Minded-To of March 2018 indicates the real name shall be restricted while opportunity given to widow of HN82 to make a personal representation at a closed hearing about publication of cover name. Mitting not prepared to act on something vague, but given chance HN82's real name could be discovered via his cover name, the Chair is giving her a chance to make a representation at a closed hearing in respect of the cover name. A closed note also accompanies the open reasons provided in the Minded To.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018 (accessed 10 March 2018).</ref> Subsequent to this, the Inquiry website at unknown date listed the cover name as 'to be published'. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| [[HN83]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in mid-1980s; name restricted due to risk to officer's personal safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N85 / HN85<br />
| [[Roger Pearce]] a.k.a. ''Roger Thorley''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1980-1984 infiltrated Freedom Press and anarchist groups. Later Head of Special Branch and Director of Intelligence for Metropolitan Police Service. Mentioned in the first Operation Herne report and the Ellison Review.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN86|HN86 / N86]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| SDS undercover in late 1970s / early 1980s 'against groups whose principle activities during that time are outside the terms of reference of the Inquiry'. Later Det. Ch. Insp. in operational charge of the SDS for a period in 1990s, and temporary head of S Squad. Mentioned by Herne and Ellison, inlcuding in relation to spying on the Lawrence family. Mitting has ruled the real and cover names will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN87]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s/1990s. Real and cover names restricted for reasons which cannot be made public.<ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN88<br />
| ''[[Timothy Spence (alias)|Timothy Spence]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated the Stoke Newington and Hackney Defence Campaign and the Hackney Campaign Against the Police Bill. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN89 / N89<br />
| ''cover name to come''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated far right in 1990s and 'involved in public order situations where left and right attended'; contemporary of Peter Francis who would confide in N89.<ref name="ellison.1"/> Deceased; real and cover names to be published as no application made to restrict details (Nov 2017 minded-to).<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN90<br />
| ''Mark Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1988-1992 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party and City of London Anti-Apartheid Group.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018"/><br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN90_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
March 2018: Mitting minded to publish cover name but restrict real name, writing:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN90 is a sexagenarian. HN90 was deployed into one group, after a short deployment in another, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The deployment appears to have been unremarkable. The risk to the safety of HN90 arising out of it is nil or negligible. The deployment is, nevertheless, of significant interest to the Inquiry, for at least two reasons: it spanned the period during which the Cold War ended and the focus of undercover deployments may have changed; and it included reporting on Poll Tax demonstrations. Fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry requires that these issues are explored publicly and that those with whom HN90 may have interacted have the opportunity of providing information or evidence about the deployment... It does not require that the real name of HN90 is published.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN91]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in last period of SDS. Neither group poses a threat, but the officer is currently serving in a 'valuable and sensitve role' so real or cover name are to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN95<br />
| ''Stefan Wesolowski''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1985-1988 deployed into Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> <br />
<br />
Apr 2018: Mitting said he was minded-to refuse application to restrict real name, saying:<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/><br />
:: His deployment was problematical and was terminated by his managers abruptly in 1988. He was medically retired soon after. Little or nothing is known about his current circumstances or concerns, save that it is believed he is aware of the attempts which have been made to contact him in connection with the Inquiry. If he is, he has not responded to them.<br />
:: The [MPS] has made an application for a restriction order in respect of his real name. The grounds of the application are generic. They do not identify the respects, if any, in which his right to respect for his private and family life would be infringed by publication of his real name, beyond referring to a paragraph in the risk assessment created on 27 February 2018 which is, itself, generic.... I am not willing to make a restriction order on Article 8 grounds without some good reason for believing that the right to respect for private and family life would be infringed if real or cover name were published. In the case of HN95, I have no such reason. Further, the real name of HN95 and the circumstances in which he came to join and leave the [SDS] are know to responsible journalists. The latter have been put into the public domain by them. I have no reason to believe that any attempt will be made to restrain publication of that which they know - the real name of HN95. In those circumstances, it would be futile to make a restriction order in respect of the real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN96<br />
| ''[[Michael James (alias)|Michael James]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978-1983 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party & Troop Out Movement.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN97]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s into one group and reported on many others. Ruled that real and cover names will be restricted due to a risk to HN97 which cannot be made public.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN101]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party in 1990s. Contemporary of [[Peter Francis]], and according to [[Bob Lambert]], had 'an involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison, p. 214).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN102]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into anarchist groups in the 1980s. Mitting has restricted real and cover names on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN104<br />
| ''[[Carlo Neri (alias)|Carlo Neri]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed March 2000 to Summer 2006 into Socialist Party and No Platform / Antifa.<br />
<br />
Real name known to the activists he spied upon, and who exposed him.<ref name="mitting.supp.minded-to.23Oct2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171023-supplementary-Minded-to.pdf Supplementary 'Minded-To'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2017 (accessed 23 October 2017 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> During the public hearing of 21 November, it was recognised that Carlo's real name was going to be published, the matter effectively reduced to who did it.<ref name="ucpi.hearing.transcript.21Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171121-Anonymity-application-hearing-day-2-Draft-Transcript.pdf Transcript of hearing of 21 November 2017], Undercover Policing Inquiry, 21 November 2017.</ref> whcih was acknowledged in a ruling of Dec 2017.<ref name="ucpi.HN104.20Dec2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171220-HN-104-Ruling.pdf On the application of HN104 for a restriction order in respect of his real name], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry", 20 December 2017.</ref> Discussions on how to publish the name, while respecting rights of the family are on-going (17 July 2018).<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180717-SDS_anonymity_direction_HN104.pdf Application for a restriction order in respect of HN104 - Direction], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN106<br />
| ''[[Barry_Tomkins_(alias)|Barry Tomkins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1979-1983 deployed into the Spartacist League of Britain. Ruled real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN109]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s; later a Det. Insp. in SDS in 1995 (1980s/1990s). Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN112]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 in training though never actually deployed. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN118<br />
| ''[[Simon Wellings (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 2001-2004 (2007) into Globalise Resistance, Socialist Workers Party and Dissent!<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN122<br />
| ''Neil Richardson''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Revolutionary Communist Party & Class War 1989-1993.<ref name="email.ucpi.12Feb2019">Email to core participants, '20190212-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN122', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 12 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN123]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into left wing groups 1993-1998, one of which 'advocated and practiced the use of violence'. Retired from MPS on health grounds & later diagnosed with a mental health condition in part derived from his deployment. Said to have played a part in activities connected to the spying on the Lawrences. Mentioned in both Ellison Review and Herne II. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN125]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a single left wing group in 1980s. Real and cover names to be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN126]]<br />
| ''Paul Gray''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the Socialist Workers Party and Anti-Nazi League 1977-1982.<ref name="email.ucpi.25June2019">Email to core participants, '20190625-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN126_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN135 / [[Mike Ferguson]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated anti-apartheid campaigners including the 'Stop the Seventy' campaign - 1969-1970. Real name given in ''True Spies'' series.<br />
<br />
20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications applications were to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Mar2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: closed hearing to take place.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> July 2018: 'further investigation necessary befor application to restrict the cover name can be determined. The real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
29 Oct 2019: real name released as already in public domain (see ''True Spies''), but cover name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling16.29Oct2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191029-sds_anonymity-ruling_16_san.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Ruling 16'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 29 October 2019.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN155]]<br />
| ''Phil Cooper''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1979/80 to January 1984. Ruled that real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN200<br />
| ''Roger Harris''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1974-1977. <br />
<br />
Minded-To (March 2018): real name cannot be published; cover name to be published.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
Details released 17 July 2018).<ref name="email.ucpi.14July2018">Email to core participants, '20180717_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN25_HN200_direction_HN104', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 July2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Currently in 70s. Deployment apparently unremarkable. Mitting: no reason to publish real name; and HN200 and wife are concerned about media intrustion.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN218 / N218<br />
| [[Barry Moss]] a.k.a.''Barry Morris''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968 into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018"/><br />
<br />
Cover name and real name to be published as no restriction order application made.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> Cover name released May 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018">Email to core participants, '20180501_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN3_HN19_HN20_HN60_HN218_HN353', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 1 May 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Herne II, para. 25.1.2 states: The MPS Director of Intelligence in 1999 has been interviewed by Operation Herne and stated, 'I have been asked if I recall 'any Special Branch plans to mislead the Macpherson Inquiry' into the death of Stephen Lawrence. For part of this time, I was head of Special Branch operations and have no recollection of any such plans.’ Peter Francis has alleged that N218 came out to see him in respect of withholding information from the Macpherson Inquiry. In interview, N218 stated that this meeting or request never happened.<ref name="herne.2"/> There is a strong probablility that N218 is former Special Branch commander [[Barry Moss]].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN241<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into one group in 1970s. Ruling (20 Feb 2018): real and cover names to be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling.20Feb18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-ruling-SDS-anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 4 March 2018).</ref> No allegation of misconduct. Arrested but not charged on one occasion.<ref name="hn241.ra">Brian Lockie, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20171221-HN241-Risk-Assessment.pdf HN241 Risk assessment (open version)], ''Metropolitan Police'', 3 October 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN294]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968-1969 into a group that no longer exists, and reported on others. Held a managerial position in the SDS 1969-1974. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN296<br />
| ''Geoff Wallace''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party from 1975 to 1978;<ref name="email.ucpi.4June2019">Email to core participants, '20190604-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN296_cover_name', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 4 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> no known allegation of misconduct against him. Currently in late 60s.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
He does not live in the UK but is willing to cooperate with the Inquiry.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18"/> Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN297<br />
| Richard Clark a.k.a. ''[[Rick Gibson (alias)|Rick Gibson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated Troop Out Movement 1974-1976 and tasked to infiltrate Big Flame - discovered and confronted by them in 1976. Multiple sexual relationships. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN298<br />
| ''[[Michael Scott (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971 to 1976 into the Young Liberals, Anti-Apartheid Movement and Workers Revolutionary Party. Convicted in 1972 under his cover name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. His cover surname has not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323 / Helen Crampton<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1968 to mid-1970 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in ''True Spies'' under the pseudonym 'Dan'.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover &amp; manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969-1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971-1976 against International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League & Troops Out Movement.<ref name="tw.ucpi.18Dec2018">[https://twitter.com/ucpinquiry/status/1074972312389197826 Cover name released: "David Hughes". Groups: International Marxist Group; Anti-Internment League; Troops Out Movement. Years active: 1971 - 1976.], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (Twitter.com)'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into Anti-Internment League and Northern Minorities Defence Force.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''[[Jill Mosdell]]''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] in 1971.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Women's Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Minded to restrict real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| [[Vincent Harvey]] a.k.a ''Vince Miller''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. <br />
|}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Vincent_Harvey&diff=257692Vincent Harvey2021-09-27T11:04:37Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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'''Vincent James Harvey''' is a former senior police officer who served as Director of the UK Division at the [[National Criminal Intelligence Service]] 1998 to 2003.<ref name="almanacs">Police & Constabulary Almanacs, ''R Maxwell & Co'', various years.</ref> Prior to this he had been a Special Branch officer including serving as an undercover in the [[Special Demonstration Squad]]. For the purposes of the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] he was also referred to by the cipher '''HN354''' (for the N cipher system see [[N officers]]).<br />
<br />
While with the SDS he used the cover name '''Vince Miller''' to infiltrate the Socialist Workers Party from 1976 to 1979.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing an update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> According to Sir John Mitting, Chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the officer's 'deployment appears to have been unremarkable, despite the fact that he admitted four 'fleeting' sexual encounters with different females during his deployment - two of them with female members of the Walthamstow branch of the Socialist Workers Party. Mitting ruled the officers real name would be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> <br />
<br />
One of those from Walthamstow SWP was 'Madeleine', who was granted core participant status in the Undercover Policing Inquiry on 6 January 2021. While Harvey had initially characterised the relationship with her as a one night stand, Madeleine stated that the relationship lasted ‘upto two months’ and the potential of the relationship lasting seemed to her ‘to hold out a lot of promise’. She also provided material disproving Harvey's assertions.<ref name="Madeline">[https://t.co/PQaopq9CVz?amp=1 Core participants Ruling 39, Recognised Legal Representatives Ruling 32, Cost of Legal Representation Awards Ruling 31 Application for a restriction order by ‘Madeleine'] ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 January 2021.</ref>.<br />
<br />
Following the statement from 'Madeleine', Mitting decided in March 2021 to revoke the restriction order over the real name.<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021"/> In April 2021 both the undercover and 'Madeleine' gave live evidence during the Tranceh 1 Phase 2 of the Inquiry's evidential hearings. However, the restriction order over his real name was not revoked until September 2021 and it was subsequently made public.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210920-order-revoking_HN354_anonymity.pdf Revocation of a restiction order under Section 19 of the Inquiries Act 2005: HN354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 September 2021 (viewed 20 September 2021).</ref><br />
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'''+++++ Last Updated 22 September 2021 +++++'''<br />
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==As an SDS undercover officer==<br />
<br />
A full profile of Harvey's time as an undercover police officer is being prepared.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf Witness statement of Vincent James Harvey] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ list of associated exhibits].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/evidence-hearings-t1-p2-day-14-am/ Transcript of Harvey's evidence to the Inquiry].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/UCPI0000034356.pdf Gist of Harvey's accounts of sexual relationships while undercover]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034313.pdf Witness statement of 'Madeleine']<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-ucpi-t1_p2-evidence_hearings-transcript.pdf Transcript of 'Madeleine's evidence to the Inquiry] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-index.pdf index of associated exhibits].<br />
<br />
Photographs of Vincent Harvey, while undercover as 'Vince Miller', provided by 'Madeleine'.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034311.pdf Photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034330.pdf First additional photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034331.pdf Second additional photograph]<br />
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==Post undercover career==<br />
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===Operation Pragada===<br />
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Operation Pragada ran from 1993 to 1994, the second of four investigations of sexual abuse of children in the care of Lambeth Council. Harvey, then a Detective Chief Inspector, was appointed by Deputy Assistant Commissioner [[Ian Johnstone]] to look into allegations that Lambeth Council employees were involved in making and distributing making child pornography.<ref name="morley">Det. Insp. Simon Morley, [https://www.iicsa.org.uk/key-documents/26090/view/MPS004500_001_006_008_010_013-020_023-025_027_040_042_048-050_052_054_056_060-061_067-068_070-071_075_085-086_090-092_117-118_128-129_135_156-157_231_237_239_240-247_250-252_260-261_288-292_297_299_304-306_308-310_315-318.pdf First witness statement], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 4 May 2020 (accessed via IICSA.org.uk 22 September 2021). Page 25 onwards deal explicitly with Operation Pragada and set out its history, albeit in redacted form.</ref> It ran concurrently with Operation Bell (1992-1994) which focused on sexual abuse by care worker Leslie Paul.<ref>[https://www.iicsa.org.uk/key-documents/26649/view/-children-care-lambeth-council-investigation-report-july-2021.pdf Children in the care of Lambeth Council Investigation Report: Executive Summary], ''Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse'', July 2021 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><ref>For more detail on the issues within Lambeth Council, and the allegations Operation Pragada was set up to investigate, see the [https://www.iicsa.org.uk/reports-recommendations/publications/investigation/lambeth-council Children in the care of Lambeth Council Investigation Report], ''Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse'', July 2021 (accessed 22 September 2021). Also see the contemporary 'Harris Report' which sets out some of the detail: Eithne Harris (Chair of Investigation Panel), [https://www.iicsa.org.uk/key-documents/21642/view/LAM028615.pdf Investigation into alleged breaches of the Council's Equal Opportunities Policies in the Housing Directorate ('Harris Report')], ''Lambeth Council'', 22 December 1993 (redacted version accessed via iisca.org.uk).</ref><br />
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These investigations, which also include Operations Middleton and Winter Key, were examined in detail by by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) as part of its wider remit examining historical child sexual abuse in Lambeth care homes. As such, Operation Pragada is addressed in a witness statement made by Detective Inspector Simon Morley of the Metropolitan Police Service. Unfortunately, it appears that much of the material regarding Op. Pragada in this statement has not been made public, and the underlying documents were only seen by DI Morley.<ref name="morley"/><ref name="iisca.30June2020.transcript">[https://www.iicsa.org.uk/key-documents/19580/view/public-hearing-transcript-30-june-2020.pdf Transcript of hearing of 30 June 2020], ''Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse'' (accessed 22 September 2021). See page 102</ref><br />
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A opening statement made behalf on some of the core participants in IICSA noted:<ref name="iisca.30June2020.transcript"/><br />
:: DI Morley acknowledges that allegations of making and distributing pornography involving children were not thoroughly investigated by Operation Pragada. He records that that Lambeth did not want the police to dig too deeply. LAG1 ... was never interviewed on the wider allegations of child sexual abuse that she made. These are allegations that have remained uninvestigated since they surfaced ... in 1993. At present, this inquiry has relied on what DI Morley has uncovered of this issue and its investigation. Unfortunately, DI Morley doesn't pose the all-important "Why?" question: why wasn't crucial evidence followed up? None of the underlying documents from, for example, Operation Pragada, have been disclosed.<br />
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The operation came in for criticism by IICSA, which noted that opportunities to identify networks and links between offenders were missed by detectives.<ref>[https://www.policeprofessional.com/news/missed-opportunities-in-investigations-into-decades-of-sexual-abuse-of-children-in-care/ ‘Missed opportunities’ in investigations into decades of sexual abuse of children in care], ''Police Professional'', 28 July 2021 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
IICSA on Lambeth council noted:<ref>[https://www.iicsa.org.uk/reports-recommendations/publications/investigation/lambeth-council/executive-summary Children in the care of Lambeth Council Investigation Report: Executive Summary], ''Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse'', July 2021 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
::Detectives failed to identify and investigate networks and links between offenders, despite the important and relevant information they held which should have been followed up. For example, when investigating the production of indecent images of children there was no liaison between the officers within Operation Pragada and Operation Bell to seek any material or information about Leslie Paul. <br />
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Another aspect of Pragada was to investigate allegations made by an individual identified publicly only as LAG1. According to IICSA:<ref>[https://www.iicsa.org.uk/key-documents/19550/view/2020-06-24-lambeth-council-investigation-cti-opening-.pdf The Lambeth Council Investigation - Opening Statement by Counsel to the Inquiry], ''Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse'', 24 June 2020 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: That investigation was concluded in 1993 following CPS advice that no further action be taken. LAG1 is understood to have made further allegations in 1994. Again, it is understood that these did not change the position and that a closing report by DCI Vincent Harvey concluded that LAG1’s allegations lacked credibility.<br />
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===National Criminal Intelligence Service===<br />
[[File: 564598 vinceharvey150.jpg|thumb|200px|Vince Harvey of the NCIS speaking at the launch of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency in December 1999]]<br />
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In 1998, Harvey is named Director of National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) as head of its UK Division, a title which later became UK Tactical Services Division. This appears to have been at rank of Assistant Chief Constable.<ref>Both his predecessor [https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/runciman/pfapp3.htm Peter Clay], and successor Keith Bristow, are given the rank of Assistant Chief Constable, while the NCIS Director General has rank Chief Constable.</ref>. He held the position until 2002, when he is succeed by [[Keith Bristow]].<ref>[https://www.cclsolutionsgroup.com/team-member/keith-bristow Keith Bristow, Chairman], ''CCL Solutions Group'', undated (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref> During this time he is one of the NCIS's senior managers, answering directly to the Director General [[John Abbott]].<br />
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According to archives of the NCIS website, the UK Division 'targets UK serious and organised crime as it effects the UK' and included:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19991011135345/http://www.ncis.co.uk:80/web/Publications/uk_division.htm UK Division], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service], 1999 (archive.org grab of http://www.ncis.co.uk/web/Publications/uk_division.htm, made 11 October 1999)</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010408112149/http://www.ncis.co.uk/uk.html UK]], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service], 2001 (archive.org grab of http://www.ncis.co.uk/uk.html, made 8 April 2008).</ref> the NCIS regional offices in Midlands, North East, North West, Scotland, South East and South West and the Strategic and Specialist Intelligence Branch which was subdivided into:<br />
* Organised Crime Unit<br />
* Drugs Unit<br />
* Strategic Research & Development Unit<br />
* Specialist Crimes Unit (including Paedophile Section, Kidnap & Extortion, Counterfeit Section & Vehicle Crime)<br />
* Economic Unit<br />
* Football Unit<br />
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During his time at the NCIS, it had responsibility for the [[Animal Rights National Index]] (a forerunner of another undercover policing unit, [[National Public Order Intelligence Unit]] and the [[National Domestic Extremism Database]]. It had wide ranging surveillance powers, including telephone and email interception and covert surveillance, though it is not known if it had its own undercover unit.<ref>Andrew Clennell, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/sep/28/ukcrime.immigrationpolicy1 Intelligence head to leave next year], ''The Guardian'', 28 September 2002 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19991109060813/http://www.ncis.co.uk/web/Publications/special_projects_branch.htm Special Projects Branch], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service], 1999 (archive.org grab of http://www.ncis.co.uk/web/Publications/special_projects_branch.htm, made 9 October 1999).</ref><br />
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In April 2001, he gave evidence to the Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on the Proceeds of Crime Bill,<ref>[http://archive.niassembly.gov.uk/adhocs/proceeds_crime/minutes/010426.htm Minutes of Proceedings], ''Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on Proceeds of Crime Bill'', 26 April 2001 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref> while in 2003 he appears to have had specific responsibility for the economic crime unit as the director of Specialist Intelligence.<ref>Police & Constabulary Almanac, ''R Maxwell & Co'', 2003.</ref> The NCIS website notes it responsibilities as:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030706201210/http://ncis.co.uk/specialistintelligence.asp Specialist Intelligence Branch], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service'', 2003 (archive.org grab of http://ncis.co.uk/specialistintelligence.asp 6 July 2003).</ref><br />
* Economic Crime Branch<br />
* Specialist Intelligence Branch which included many of the same units as in previous years.<br />
* Special Projects Branch which:<br />
:: consists of three units: Operations Support, Special Liaison, and National Source Management, which support police and national and international intelligence agencies with specialist services in gathering, analysis and intelligence dissemination.<br />
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===Media appearance while with the NCIS===<br />
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Vince Harvey made a number of media appearances during his time as a Director of the NCIS:<br />
* June 1999: speaker at a national drugs conference in Blackpool.<ref>Jason Bennetto, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/drug-factories-become-britain-s-new-illegal-cottage-industry-1102957.html Drug factories become Britain's new illegal cottage industry], ''The Independent, 27 June 1999 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* December 1999: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/564476.stm a speaker at the launch of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency (including a photograph)].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/564476.stm Scotland 'leading drugs battle'], ''BBC News Online'', 14 December 1999 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* 2000: interviewed for a US tv programme 'Lords of the Mafia, Britain & Sicily', on the differences between European and American crime syndicates.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/title/lords-of-the-mafia-britain-sicily/oclc/414149283 Lords of the Mafia. Britain & Sicily.], ''WorldCat.org'', undated (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* November 2000: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1042788.stm quoted in and photograph to accompany a BBC News special investigation gangs operating in Essex].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1042788.stm Essex gangland booms]], ''BBC News Online'', 27 November 2000 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* November 2000: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1044604.stm quoted in BBC News Online in relation to investigation on organised criminal gangs operating in Essex], of whom he said:<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1044604.stm Looking for a quieter life], ''BBC News Online'', 28 November 2000 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: These are thoroughly unpleasant people who don't mind using any technique if it furthers their own cause.<br />
* May 2002: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1998515.stm BBC news story on mass arrest of 36 people suspected of downloading child pornography] as part of [[Operation Ore]]. Harvey is quoted as saying:<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1998515.stm Mass arrests over online child porn], ''BBC News Online'', 20 May 2002 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: Every image of a child being sexually abused is an image of a crime scene and each photograph is that of a victim. Using the sophisticated technology along with traditional detective and analytical work, we can now make sure there is no place for paedophiles operating online to hide.<br />
* July 2003: quoted as 'director of economic crime' at the NCIS in relation to a critical report that there was a 58,000 case backlog of on financial crime.<ref>Jill Treanor, [https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2003/jul/02/4 Money-laundering assault beefed up], ''The Guardian'', 2 July 2003 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* September 2003: quoted as head of NCIS Economic Crime Branch on an increase in disclosure on money laundering from Scottish solicitors.<ref>[https://www.lawscot.org.uk/members/journal/issues/vol-48-issue-09/praise-on-anti-money-laundering-efforts/ Praise on anti-money laundering efforts], ''Journal of the Law Society of Scotland'', 1 September 2003 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
[[File:Vinceharvey ncis.jpg|thumb|200px|Vince Harvey of NCIS as he appears in a BBC news special investigation on organised crime in Essex, November 2000]]<br />
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* 22 November 2017: directed that any application for anonymity from the MPS Legal Team by were to be made by 30 November, and for the MPS Designated Lawyer Team by 4 December 2017<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171122-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 November 2017 (accessed 26 November 2017).</ref><br />
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* 29 November 2017: Metropolitan Police make application to restrict real name only.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20171129-MPS_CL-HN354_application.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN354], '''Metropolitan Police Service'', 29 November 2017, published 9 July 2018).</ref><ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 15 Jan 2018: Mitting indicates he is minded to grant the restriction order over real name and that there was no application in relation to cover name which will be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr2.15Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180115-Nov-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press notice - ‘Minded-to’ anonymity: Special Demonstration Squad Officers (HN13, HN296, HN304, HN339, HN340, HN354, HN356/124, HN61, HN819, HN109, HN9, HN66)], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref> The Inquiry Chair also stated:<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018.</ref><br />
:: In the unlikely event that any member of the public can be prompted to give evidence about his deployment publication of his cover name would serve that purpose.' Publication of real name is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would give rise to interference with his article 8 rights to private and family life.<br />
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* 19 June 2018: cover name and target group released.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018"/><br />
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* 9 July 2018: provisional ruling to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref> Directed that any objections to this to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 30 July 2018: final ruling that HN354's real name will be restricted in the Inquiry.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 9 October 2018: Restriction order granted over disclosure of any information by the Inquiry which would lead to the identification of HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/><br />
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* 6 January 2021: 'Madeleine' is designated as a core participant, being placed in Category [H], 'relationships'.<ref name="Madeline"/><br />
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* 30 March 2021 (revised 6 April 2021): Mitting issues a ruling that HN354's real name will be revoked in light of 'Madeleine's witness statement, where she sets out the relationship with the undercover. There will be a delay in doing this because:<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210330-ruling-HN354_real_name.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 19], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 March 2021, revised 6 April 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: It is, however, imperative that the risk of a seriously adverse impact on his immediate family member is not run. Madeleine accepts that it should not be. For that reason, the Inquiry will not publish the real name of HN354 before the risk has passed; and it will not be revoked before he gives evidence. <br />
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* 21 September 2021: Mitting revoked the restriction order over HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/> The same day Harvey's witness statement is re-released containing the full real name, Vincent James Harvey.<ref name=harvey.1stWS.20Sept2021">Vincent Harvey, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf First Witness Statement of HN354 as supplemented], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', signed 18 November 2019, supplemented 10 March 2021; reissued by Undercover Policing Inquiry on 21 September 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref> Three photographs provided by 'Madeleine' of Harvey while he was undercover were also released through the Inquiry website.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ HN 354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.uk'' (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=N_officers_2&diff=257680N officers 22021-09-23T12:34:10Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=N Officers list|Description=A list of N &amp; HN cyphers used to designate individual officers in the Inquiry and by Operation Herne (Part 2)}}<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* For a general introduction into the cypher system, see [[N_officers| N Officers (main page)]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers less than 100, see [[N_officers_1|N officers part 1]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 300 to 399, see [[N_officers_3|N officers part 3]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 400 and higher, see [[N_officers_4|N officers part 4]].<br />
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* ''Updated 21 July 2018''; further details of restriction order applications, etc. can be found under individual officer pages where linked.<br />
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==N series officers part 2 (100-299)==<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name (italics for cover name only)<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN101]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party in 1990s. Contemporary of [[Peter Francis]], and according to [[Bob Lambert]], had 'an involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison, p. 214).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref> Real and cover names will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN102]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into anarchist groups in the 1980s. Mitting has restricted real and cover names on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN103<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| <br />
| 11 January 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 30 & 31 January 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180111-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 January 2018 (accessed 11 January 2018).</ref><br />
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No restriction order application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018 (accessed 10 March 2018).</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name used.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN104<br />
| ''[[Carlo Neri (alias)|Carlo Neri]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed March 2000 to Summer 2006 into Socialist Party and No Platform / Antifa.<br />
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Real name known to the activists he spied upon, and who exposed him.<ref name="mitting.supp.minded-to.23Oct2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171023-supplementary-Minded-to.pdf Supplementary 'Minded-To'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2017 (accessed 23 October 2017 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> During the public hearing of 21 November, it was recognised that Carlo's real name was going to be published, the matter effectively reduced to who did it.<ref name="ucpi.hearing.transcript.21Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171121-Anonymity-application-hearing-day-2-Draft-Transcript.pdf Transcript of hearing of 21 November 2017], Undercover Policing Inquiry, 21 November 2017.</ref> which was acknowledged in a ruling of Dec 2017.<ref name="ucpi.HN104.20Dec2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171220-HN-104-Ruling.pdf On the application of HN104 for a restriction order in respect of his real name], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry", 20 December 2017.</ref> Discussions on how to publish the name, while respecting rights of the family are on-going (17 July 2018).<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180717-SDS_anonymity_direction_HN104.pdf Application for a restriction order in respect of HN104 - Direction], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 July 2018.</ref> 7 Aug 2018 ruling made restricting real name.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN106<br />
| ''[[Barry_Tomkins_(alias)|Barry Tomkins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1979-1983 deployed into the Spartacist League of Britain. Ruled real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN108<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / manager<br />
| No application made.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017 (accessed 5 August 2017).</ref> - real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN109]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s; later a Det. Insp. in SDS in 1995 (1980s/1990s). Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN110]]<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS Detective Constable.<br />
| Served in back office in last period of unit. No application to restrict name made so shall be released in due course.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN112]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 in training though never actually deployed. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN113<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS (back office / manager)<br />
| 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications were to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Mar2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: further information sought.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018 (accessed 26 April 2018).</ref> May 2018: application withdrawn - name to be published when evidence relating to him is released.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180523-Press_Notice_SDS_Minded_to_note_9.pdf 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad Ruling on HN122], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN115<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office<br />
| No application for anonymity made so real be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN118<br />
| ''[[Simon Wellings (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 2001-2004 (2007) into Globalise Resistance, Socialist Workers Party and Dissent! Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN120<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / manager<br />
| No application made.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN122<br />
| ''Neil Richardson''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Revolutionary Communist Party & Class War 1989-1993<br />
<br />
11 January 2018, directions issued for any anonymity application to be submitted by 30 & 31 January 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11Jan2018"/> March 2018: Mitting states that for reasons set out in a closed note, it is possible to examine HN122's deployment without risk of serious harm to HN122 or others, and the cover name must be published to give groups targeted a chance to provide evidence.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018"/> 23 May 2018 ruling - cover name application refused; application over real name granted.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><br />
<br />
It was noted that the refusal to restrict the cover name followed a closed hearing. Once the cover name is released (following pre-publication checks), an open application will be published and a date set for responding on the Chair's 'minded-to' to restrict the real name.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
12 Feb 2019: cover-name and targets released.<ref name="email.ucpi.12Feb2019">Email to core participants, '20190212-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN122', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 12 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
21 Feb 2019: Inquiry directs that submissions regarding the resetriction order over the real name are to be made by 21 March 2019.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-Directions_for_SDS_HN18_HN66_HN122_HN299_342_and_HN344.pdf Directions for SDS HN18 HN66 HN122 HN299 342 and HN344], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 February 2019 (accessed 7 April 2019).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-HN122_open_application_MPS.pdf MPS restriction order application over real name]; [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-HN122_open_application_DL.pdf Designated Laywers application to restrict real and cover names, and also targets]<br />
<br />
17 Apr 2019: ruling that real name would be restricted.<ref name="mitting.r15.17Apr2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190417-sds_anonymity_applications-ruling_15.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 15], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 Apr 2019.</ref><br />
<br />
17 Sept 2019, Faith Mason, whose deceased son's identity was used in part to create the Neil Richardson legend, was granted core participancy in the Inquiry.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190917-ruling-CP_31-RLR_25-costs_24_san.pdf Core participants Ruling 31, Recognised Legal Representatives Ruling 25, Costs of Legal Representation Awards Ruling 24, Applications for a restriction orders by "Bea" and "Jenny"], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 September 2019.</ref><br />
<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN123]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into left wing groups 1993-1998, one of which 'advocated and practiced the use of violence'. Retired from MPS on health grounds & later diagnosed with a mental health condition in part derived from his deployment. Said to have played a part in activities connected to the spying on the Lawrences. Mentioned in both Ellison Review and Herne II. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN124<br />
|<br />
|<br />
| - see under HN356<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN125]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a single left wing group in 1980s. Real and cover names to be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN126]]<br />
| ''Paul Gray''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the Socialist Workers Party and Anti-Nazi League 1977-1982.<ref name="email.ucpi.25June2019">Email to core participants, '20190625-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN126_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref> Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN127]]<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| SDS Sergeant / cover officer<br />
| Sergeant with the SDS 1997-2001.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017)</ref> Cover officer for ''[[Carlo Neri (alias)|Carlo Neri]]'', [[Mark Jenner]] (HN15) and others. Ruling (Feb 2018): restriction application over real name refused<ref name="mitting.ruling.20Feb18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-ruling-SDS-anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 4 March 2018).</ref> so will be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N129<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS Sergeant <br />
| SDS supevisor / cover officer.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
<br />
Extension sought to deal with in a future tranche.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).</ref> No application made made so real name will be published; any cover name will be considered at document redaction stage.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
<br />
Received Lambert's memo on the N81 / Walton meeting; commented on character and skill of Peter Francis, but said that they did not recognise the allegations regarding seeking information to smear the Lawrence family. His statement to Op. Herne is quoted in Ellison (p.212): "[Mr Francis] was targeted towards the campaign in the same way as today… to perform a dual role of protecting the family from malicious extremist influences and providing information about potential public order issues. The anti-police sentiment on the streets was palpable, and Territorial Policing was very interested in any potential or planned disorder…" N129 believes that he was directly tasked to get involved with the campaign, although not necessarily with the family. His role was not about ‘smearing’ at all.<ref name="ellison.1"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN135 / [[Mike Ferguson]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated anti-apartheid campaigners including the 'Stop the Seventy' campaign - 1969-1970. Real name given in True Spies series.<br />
<br />
20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications applications were to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Mar2018"/> April 2018: closed hearing to take place.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> July &amp; Sept 2018: 'further investigation necessary befor application to restrict the cover name can be determined. The real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
29 October 2019: Mitting rules cover name will be restricted, but not his real name, noting it is already in the public domain.<ref name="mitting.ruling16.29Oct2019"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN146<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| No application made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN155]]<br />
| ''Phil Cooper''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1979/80 to 1983. Ruled that real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N183<br />
| [[Richard Walton]]<br />
|<br />
| Special Branch background. Later head of [[Counter Terrorism Command]]. In 1998, while part of the [[Lawrence Review Team]], Walton was involved in a controversial meeting wtih undercover [[N81|N81 ''Dave Hagan'']], regarding gathering information on the Stephen Lawrence family campaign.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N190<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| SDS Detective Inspector<br />
| commented on retention / destruction of documents within the SDS during a 2004 document rationalisation process (Ellison, 201).<ref name="ellison.1"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN200<br />
| ''Roger Harris''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1974-1977. <br />
<br />
Minded-To (March 2018): real name cannot be published; cover name to be published.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
Details released 17 July 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.14July2018">Email to core participants, '20180717_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN25_HN200_direction_HN104', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 July2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref> 13 Sept 2018: open application to be published re application to restrict real name.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
Currently in 70s. Deployment apparently unremarkable. Mitting: no reason to publish real name; and HN200 and wife are concerned about media intrusion.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref><br />
<br />
2 October 2018: the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/16-20180226-MPS-HN200-Open_Application.pdf] applied for by the Metropolitan police to restrict HN200's real name was released,<ref>Department of Legal Services, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/18-20171130-MPS-HN304-Open_Application.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN304], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 26 February 2018 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> with a deadline for responses of 23 October.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20181001-direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps-in-September-batch.pdf Restriction Order Applications by HN4, HN13, HN25, HN30, HN33, HN82, HN96. HN200 and HN304], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 October 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
It was also released that after his time in the SDS, HN200 held 'a senior management role within the MPS'.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/17-Undated-Inquiry-HN200-Additional_Information.pdf Inquiry's gist of additional information to be read with HN200’s open application], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 October 2018 (release date).</ref><br />
<br />
8 Nov 2018: real name restricted, with Mitting noting:<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181108_Ruling_13_final.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Demonstration Squad and Special Duties Squad Ruling 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 November 2018.</ref><br />
:: The senior management role held by HN 200 in the MPS did not involve him, directly or indirectly, in the management or oversight of the SOS. My acknowledgement of the public interest in senior managers being accountable in their real name was confined to those with responsibilities of that kind.<br />
<br />
The Restriction order was made public on 23 October 2020.<ref>Email to core participants, ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2020.</ref><ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200114-restriction_order-HN200.pdf Restriction Order - HN200], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 November 2019 (published on ucpi.org.uk 23 October 2020).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN204<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / manager<br />
| No anonymity application made,<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> so real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN216 / N216<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS management. Responsible for day-to-day running of the unit in the 1990s.<br />
| Minded-to (Nov 2017): application for restriction order in respect of real name to be refused with Mitting writing:<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
:: The evidence which he can give about the management of the Special Demonstration Squad is potentially significant. There is no known allegation of misconduct against him. He has identified no plausible risk to the safety or welfare of himself or his family beyond the possibility of unwelcome media attention if his whereabouts were to be traced. This is a real risk, but it is outweighed by the legitimate interest which the public has in his performance of his duty in a senior and responsible public office. The starting presumption that evidence given by such a person about such duties should be given publicly and in his own name is not displaced. Closed reasons accompany the note.<br />
<br />
July 2018: both MPS Commissioners lawyers and Designated Legal Team 'have indicated they do not want to pursue the application', so the Minded To decision of Nov 2017 becomes the final ruling, and real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
<br />
Expressed outrage at Peter Francis allegations (Herne II, 21.1.14) and stated in respect of the targeting of Duwayne Brooks (Herne 24.1.13): 'SDS activity targeting individuals in a public order context may have brought certain officers into contact with, or in the close proximity of Duwayne Brooks, but, if that did happen, this would not have been in response to the murder investigation, or any connection with the family'.<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN217<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office<br />
| No application made so real name will be published; no cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN218 / N218<br />
| [[Barry Moss]] a.k.a ''Barry Morris''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968 into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018"/><br />
<br />
Cover name and real name to be published as no restriction order application made.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> Cover name released May 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018">Email to core participants, '20180501_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN3_HN19_HN20_HN60_HN218_HN353', ''Undercover Research Group'', 1 May 2018, referencing update of the webpage <a href="https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/">UCPI.org.uk/cover-names</a>.</ref> Later became manager of the SDS and Comamnder of Special Branch.<br />
<br />
Herne II, para. 25.1.2 states: The MPS Director of Intelligence in 1999 has been interviewed by Operation Herne and stated, 'I have been asked if I recall 'any Special Branch plans to mislead the Macpherson Inquiry' into the death of Stephen Lawrence. For part of this time, I was head of Special Branch operations and have no recollection of any such plans.’ Peter Francis has alleged that N218 came out to see him in respect of withholding information from the Macpherson Inquiry. In interview, N218 stated that this meeting or request never happened.<ref name="herne.2"/> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN241<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into one group in 1970s. Ruling (20 Feb 2018): real and cover names to be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling.20Feb18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-ruling-SDS-anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 4 March 2018).</ref> No allegation of misconduct. Arrested but not charged on one occasion.<ref name="hn241.ra">Brian Lockie, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20171221-HN241-Risk-Assessment.pdf HN241 Risk assessment (open version)], ''Metropolitan Police'', 3 October 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN221<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office<br />
| No application made so real name will be published; no cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN244<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / manager<br />
| Full extent of restriction order being sought unknown; extension sought for MPS to supply this application (Nov 2017).<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> No application made so real name will be published; no cover name (July 2018).<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN268<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| SDS back office<br />
| No application to restrict real name made,<ref name="mitting.mindedto4.25Jan2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180125-December-tranche-impact-led-and-HN353-minded-to-sanitised.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 4], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 January 2018 (accessed 25 January 2018).</ref> so real name to be given 'when evidence relating to them is published before hearings'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.25Jan18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180124-December-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press Notice: Decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 January 2018 (accessed 25 January 2018).</ref> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N275<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| Det. Ch. Insp. in last period of unit<br />
| Critical of record retention and note-taking in the SDS (Ellison, pages 198 &amp; 201).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref> Role as DCI, heading the SDS in its last period and role in its closure is discussed in risk assessment of [[HN30]].<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018">Adrian Baxter, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/11-20180831-HN30-Gisted_Risk_Assessment.pdf N30 - Risk Assessment (gisted)], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 28 August 2018 (accessed 2 October 2018, via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN294]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968-1969 into a group that no longer exists, and reported on others. Held a managerial position in the SDS 1969-1974. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN296<br />
| ''Geoff Wallace''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party from 1975 to 1978 (details released 4 June 2019);<ref name="email.ucpi.4June2019">Email to core participants, '20190604-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN296_cover_name', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 4 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> no known allegation of misconduct against him. Currently in late 60s. <ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref> Ruling (Mar 2018): real name to be restricted.<ref name ="ucpi.ruling.27Mar2018">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Final-ruling-following-21-March-hearing.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Ruling 5], 27 March 2018 (accessed 29 March 2018)</ref> <br />
<br />
15 Jan 2018: 'Minded-to' grant restriction order over real name; no application in relation to cover name which will be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr2.15Jan2018"/><br />
<br />
He does not live in the UK but is willing to cooperate with the Inquiry.<ref name="ucpi.pr2.15Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180115-Nov-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press notice - ‘Minded-to’ anonymity: Special Demonstration Squad Officers (HN13, HN296, HN304, HN339, HN340, HN354, HN356/124, HN61, HN819, HN109, HN9, HN66)], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
13 Sept 2018: open application to restrict real name will be published once the cover name has been released.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/HN296_Open_Anonymity_Application.pdf Real name anonymity application] made 24 Nov 2017 - made public 24 July 2019, with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/20190723-direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps-in-July-2019-batch.pdf directions for objections] to be made by 29 Aug 2019. A [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/HN296-gist-of-additional-info-in-supporting-evidence.pdf gist of additional information] is that following his SDS deployment 'he worked on squads within Special Branch that would have used intelligence generated by the SDS'<br />
<br />
* 29 October 2019: Mitting rules against making a restriction order over the officers real name, writing:<ref name="mitting.ruling16.29Oct2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191029-sds_anonymity-ruling_16_san.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Ruling 16'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 29 October 2019.</ref><br />
: The specific reasons advanced in paragraph 11 of the written note submitted on behalf of the NPNSCP’s dated 14 September 2019 are speculative. I have no reason to believe that there were any “potentially important links between his covert work and his subsequent role” or that there is any evidence of significance which can be given about the latter by him or by others.<br />
<br />
The Restriction order was made public on 23 October 2020.<ref>Email to core participants, ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2020.</ref><ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200114-restriction_order-HN296.pdf Restriction Order - HN296], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 29 October 2019 (published on ucpi.org.uk 23 October 2020).</ref><br />
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|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN297<br />
| Richard Clarke a.k.a. ''[[Rick Gibson (alias)|Rick Gibson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated Troop Out Movement 1974-1976 and tasked to infiltrate Big Flame - discovered and confronted by them in 1976. Multiple sexual relationships. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN298<br />
| ''[[Michael Scott (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971 to 1976 into the Young Liberals, Anti-Apartheid Movement and Workers Revolutionary Party. Convicted in 1972 under his cover name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN299/ HN342<br />
|<br />
| SDS<br />
| See under HN342<br />
|}<br />
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* For N officers with numbers <100, see [[N_officers_1|N officers part 1]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers >300, see [[N_officers_3|N officers part 3]].<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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[[Category: UndercoverResearch]] [[Category: Undercover Policing Inquiry]]</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=N_officers_3&diff=257679N officers 32021-09-23T12:32:25Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=N Officers list|Description=A list of N &amp; HN cyphers used to designate individual officers in the Inquiry and by Operation Herne (Part 3)}}<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* For a general introduction into the cypher system, see [[N_officers| N Officers (main page)]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers <100, see [[N_officers_1|N officers part 1]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 100 - 299, see [[N_officers_2|N officers part 2]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 400 and higher, see [[N_officers_4|N officers part 4]].<br />
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* ''Updated 3 August 2018''<br />
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==N series officers part 3 (300-399)==<br />
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{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name (italics for cover name only)<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim / 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. Initially, his cover surname had not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Deceased. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190924-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN300_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 24 September 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover <br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety. Real and cover names have been restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181108_Ruling_13_final.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Demonstration Squad and Special Duties Squad Ruling 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 November 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN306<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN307<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN308<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN311<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity application to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN314<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management - DCI in last period of unit.<br />
| 11 May, directed any application for anonymity to be filed by 31 May 2018.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Role as DCI for the SDS and involvement in closure of the unit is given in the risk assessment of [[HN30]].<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018">Adrian Baxter, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/11-20180831-HN30-Gisted_Risk_Assessment.pdf N30 - Risk Assessment (gisted)], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 28 August 2018 (accessed 2 October 2018, via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| N315<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| Witness Protection Unit officer assigned by John Grieve to Lawrence family following wrongful publication of witness details in a Macpherson Report appendix; said they were 'never approached by any member of the MPS or asked for personal information or rumour surrounding the Stephen Lawrence family' (Herne II, 21.2.4-5).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN318<br />
| Ray Wilson<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Deceased. No restriction order applications made so real name to be published in due course.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969. Real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323<br />
| [[Helen Crampton]]<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN325<br />
| [[Conrad Dixon]]<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No application made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''Dave Fisher''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN328<br />
| [[Joan Hillier]]<br />
| SDS back office / management <br />
| No restriction order application made and real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).</ref><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN332]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS manager<br />
| Held SDS managerial role in the 1970s. Real name will be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| Michael Tyrell, ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 to 1972 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in True Spies under the pseudonym 'Dan'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 - 1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342 / 299<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deployed 1971 - 1976 into International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League and the Troops Out Movement.<ref name="email.ucpi.18Dec2018">Email to core participants, '20181218-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN342', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
13 Sept 2018, Mitting indicated he was minded to restrict the real name on health grounds, the consideration of his application being delayed due to an operation for a serious condition. The Chair wrote:<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Minded-to-13-HN-342-299.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
:HN 299 / 342 is a septuagenarian and lives alone in a small community. He was deployed against three groups of his own selection between 1971 and 1975. There is nothing to indicate that his deployment was anything other than unremarkable. His cover name will be published, as will the names of the groups. In the unlikely event that any member of any of the groups can remember him, publication of his cover name, not of his real name, is what is required to prompt information or evidence from them. Publication of his real name would risk unwelcome media attention and the attention of those who may be ill disposed towards him within his small community. It would not assist fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry. <br />
<br />
Inquiry history: Extension sought to deal with in a future tranche.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> 11 May 2018, directed that any application for anonymity order to be filed as soon as reasonably practical after that date after the end of May.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> July 2018: application delayed.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref> Following publication of the cover name, an open application in relation to the real name will be released.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
21 February 2019: Inquiry directs that submissions regarding the resetriction order over the real name are to be made by 21 March 2019.<ref name="mitting.direction.21Feb19">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-Directions_for_SDS_HN18_HN66_HN122_HN299_342_and_HN344.pdf Directions for SDS HN18 HN66 HN122 HN299 342 and HN344], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 February 2019 (accessed 7 April 2019).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-HN299_342_open_application.pdf MPS open application to restrict real name] <br />
<br />
17 Apr 2019: ruling that real name would be restricted.<ref name="mitting.r15.17Apr2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190417-sds_anonymity_applications-ruling_15.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 15], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 Apr 2019.</ref> The Restriction order was made public on 23 October 2020.<ref>Email to core participants, ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2020.</ref><ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200114-restriction_order-HN299_342.pdf Restriction Order - HN299/342], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 April 2019 (published on ucpi.org.uk 23 October 2020).</ref><br />
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|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into the Anti-Internment League and the Northern Minorities Defence League.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| Jill Mosdell<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> It is unclear if he was an undercover or simply management.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan|Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] 1971. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Womens Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN350<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office<br />
| No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| [[Vincent Harvey]] a.k.a. ''Vince Miller''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Had sexual relationships<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN358<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Apr 2018: no application made<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N367<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| SO15 / CTC from 2006, Det. Sgt; point of contact for ex-SDS officers. Was contacted by N81 in this capacity but was accused of having 'an agenda to belittle SDS' (Ellison, 253).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
Nov 2017: further information required before Inquiry can proceed with the application.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: 'is EN52. Further information is required before the Inquiry can progress this application. This application will be moved to a future tranche'.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN371<br />
| [[Phil Saunders]]<br />
| SDS management<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
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* [[N_officers_1|Numbers <100]]<br />
* [[N_officers_2|Numbers 100-299]]<br />
* [[N_officers_4|Numbers 400 and higher]]<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references /><br />
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[[Category: UndercoverResearch]] [[Category: Undercover Public Inquiry]]</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=SDS_undercover_list&diff=257678SDS undercover list2021-09-23T12:31:13Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=SDS undercover list|Description=A list of all publicly known officers who served undercover with the Special Demonstration Squad, 1968-2008}}<br />
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This page carries a full list of publicly identified undercover police officers who served with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]], their anonymity status within the Undercover Policing Inquiry, and with links to profiles were done. For a more comprehensive list of all N/HN officers in Operation Herne, Ellisor Review and the Undercover Policing Inquiry see the [[N officers]] page.<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* ''Updated 25 September 2019''<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN1<br />
| ''[[Matt Rayner (alias)|Matt Rayner]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in north London 1991-1996, including London Boots Action Group, London Animal Action, Animal Liberation Front and West London Hunt Saboteurs. Engaged in sexual relationships. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN2]]<br />
| [[Andy Coles]] a.k.a. ''Andy Davey''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in south London 1991-1995; also targeted peace groups. Engaged in sexual relationships. Authored a version of the SDS Tradecraft manual. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN3<br />
| ''[[Jason Bishop (alias)|Jason Bishop]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2006 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and Disarm DSEi. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN4]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into two branches of one group in late 1980s/early 1990s.<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-PN-SDS-minded-to-11.pdf Press notice - 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N5 / HN5<br />
| [[John Dines]] a.k.a. ''John Barker''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 infiltrated London Greenpeace and Animal Liberation Front. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN6]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against three groups in 1990s. Cover and real name restricted due to risk of violence and mental health issues.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN7]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover officer.<br />
| Real and cover names restricted on health grounds. Targets & dates unknown.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN8]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover.<br />
| Deployed into one group in late 1980s / early 1990s. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted on grounds of a physical risk.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN9|N9 / HN9]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer. <br />
| Deployed into one group in 1980s; later was a cover officer for officers of interest deployed in 2000s. Named in Ellison Review. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted as HN9 at risk of suicide if details published.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N10 / HN10<br />
| [[Bob Lambert|Robert "Bob" Lambert]] a.k.a. ''Bob Robinson''<br />
| SDS undercover and head of unit.<br />
| Targeted animal rights groups in north London 1984-1989. Engaged in sexual relationships, including fathering a child by one activist. Later head of the SDS and took part in the Walton-N81 meeting.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN11<br />
| [[Mike Chitty]], a.k.a. ''Mike Blake''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1984-1987 deployed into animal rights groups in south London, including South London Animal Movement. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN12]]<br />
| ''Mike Hartley''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1982-1985, deployed into Revolutionary Communist Group and Socialist Workers Party. Engaged in sexual relationships. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN13]]<br />
| ''Barry / Desmond Loader''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) 1974/5-1978. Twice prosecuted for public order offences in his cover name and convicted once. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N14 / HN14<br />
| [[Jim Boyling]] a.k.a. ''"Grumpy" Jim Sutton''<br />
| SDS Undercover. <br />
| 1995-2000 deployed into Essex Hunt Saboteurs, Reclaim the Streets and Earth First! Engaged in sexual relationships and fathered children by an activist.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN15]]<br />
| [[Mark Jenner]] a.k.a. ''Mark Cassidy''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1995-2000 targeted Colin Roach Centre, Anti-Fascist Action, Independent Working Class Association, Republican Forum. Mentioned by Lambert as an SDS UCO who 'would have involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison page 214). Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N16 / HN16 <br />
| ''[[James Straven_(alias)|James Straven]]'' and ''Kevin Crossland''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1997-2002 deployed into the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Brixton and Croydon Hunt Saboteurs. Used two cover names, including the identity of a dead child. Lied about having had relationships with women. One of them, 'Ellie', came forward.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN17]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Targeted right wing groups in 1990s (last 15 years of SDS existence).<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN18]]<br />
| ''[[Rob Harrison (alias)|Rob Harrison]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2004-2007 deployed into State of Emergency Collective, No Borders London, Globalise Resistance, rampART and the International Solidarity Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN19<br />
| ''[[Malcolm Shearing (alias)|Malcolm Shearing]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1981 to 1985 deployed into Revolutionary Communist Party &amp; Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist/Leninist). Arrested and cautioned for bill posting. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN20<br />
| ''[[Tony Williams (alias)|Tony Williams]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978 to 1982 deployed into the Revolutionary Communist Tendency and Direct Action Movement. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN21]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1970s / early 1980s against one group & reported on others. Ruled that real and cover names to be restricted on mental health grounds. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN23]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1990s. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN25]]<br />
| ''Kevin Douglas''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 deployed into the Troops Out Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN26<br />
| ''[[Christine Green (alias)|Christine Green]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1994-1999 into animal rights groups including Animal Liberation Front, London Animal Action and West London Hunt Saboteurs.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN27]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of left wing groups in the 1990s. In 60s. Ruling made that real and cover names will be restricted on grounds the officer is 'at risk to life and limb' given the nature of deployment and activities undertaken. Mentioned in Ellison.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN28<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups and reported on others in last 15 years of SDS. Minded to: restrict real and cover names as at risk of serious violence if identity discovered.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/201805223-PN_SDS_MT_9.pdf 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad Ruling on HN122], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref> Had been directed to file anonymity application by 24/27 April 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.19Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180419_direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 April 2018.</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180426_HN28_application.pdf Open application over real and cover names (26 Apr 2018)]<br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN33/98<br />
| ''[[Lee Bonser (alias)|Kathryn Lesley 'Lee' Bonser]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Socialist Workers Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN40|N40]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Undercover in last decade of the unit.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> Mentioned in relation to how information from the SDS, particularly on the identities of protestors, was passed on to the rest of the police (Herne II, 13.4, 24.1.3).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN41]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in the 1970s and 1980s, of which the principle target group no longer exists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N43<br />
| Peter Francis, a.k.a. ''Peter Daley / Johnson / Black''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1993-1997 infiltrated Youth against Racism in Europe and Militant & Socialist Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN44<br />
| ''Darren Prowse''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Tasked to infiltrate the British National Party in 2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.5June2018">Email to core participants, '20180605_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN44_HN155_HN303', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS-CL_HN44_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] 26 Feb 2018 (published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref>) which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Mitting wrote (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
:: HN44 is a serving Metropolitan Police officer. In the last period of existence of the Special Duties Squad he was deployed to build a legend to permit him to infiltrate violent elements of one group. The Special Duties Squad was closed and his deployment was ended before he had succeeded in doing so. His evidence about the closure of the Squad is likely to be of interest to the Inquiry. In the (very) unlikely event that any member of he target group can provide or wishes to provide any information about him, publication of his cover name, which ill occur, is all that is required to prompt them to do so. Publication of his real name would give rise to a eal risk of interference in the private and family life of HN44 and his family and a contingent risk to their safety. It is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. It would be neither proportionate nor justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN45<br />
| ''[[Dave Robertson (alias)|Dave Robertson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| 1970-1973 infiltrated Banner Books, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and maoist groups in North London. Worked in back office in SDS in adminstrative role for 3 years in 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN48<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN53|HN53/N53]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1980s; Second in Operational Command of SDS 1998-2005 (Det. Insp.). Though evidence is of importance to Inquiry, there is a contingent physical risk which justifies restricting real and cover names. Mentioned in Herne I & II, and Ellison. Ruled that neither real or cover names can be released by the Inquiry.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN56<br />
| ''[[Alan 'Nick' Nicholson (alias)|Alan 'Nick' Nicholson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1990-1991 targeted British National Party.<ref name = covernamesApril>Undercover Policing Inquiry, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ Update of Cover names page], ucpi.org.uk, 17 April 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN58]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| DCI in charge of SDS 1997 - 2001. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN60<br />
| ''[[Dave Evans (alias)|Dave Evans]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2005 deployed into Socialist Workers Party, London Animal Action & Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN64]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in 1990s and reported on others.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN65<br />
| ''John Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1980 - 1984 targeted Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN65_application.pdf Application made to restrict real and cover names] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/> [https://cnduk.org/statement-on-police-infiltration-of-cnd/ CND statement]<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
In March 2018, Mitting wrote:<br />
:: N65 is a sexagenarian. HN65 was deployed against one group in the early 1980s. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry. The group, which was well known, posed no serious threat to public order. Its embers posed,and pose, no risk to the safety of HN65. One of the issues which the Inquiry must investigate, publicly, is why HN65 was deployed against the group and what, if anything, was done with intelligence provided on it by HN65. HN65 is likely to be the principal, perhaps only, source of information about these issues. Publication of the cover name of HN65, together with the name of the group infiltrated, should prompt further information and evidence from members of the group, likely to be of value to the Inquiry.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN66<br />
| ''[[Edward David Jones (alias)|Edward David Jones (Bob the Builder, Edge, Dave)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against London Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action (Drax) 2005-2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.8Jan2018">Email to core participants, '20190108-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN66', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 January 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> In 60s.<br />
<br />
HN66 is the same as the NPOIU officer EN327.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180502_press_notice_NPOIU_anonymity.pdf Press Notice: 'Minded to' note: applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN67<br />
| ''[[Alan Bond (alias)|Alan Bond]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1981- 86 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="email.ucpi.7June2018">Email to core participants, '20180607_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN67_HN68_HAB_CP19', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Admits to having a 'fleeting sexual encounter in his cover name with one woman who was not a member of his target group'. Later second in command of SDS for three years in 1990s. Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN68<br />
| ''[[Sean Lynch (alias)|Sean Lynch]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1968-74 infiltrated Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign and Sinn Féin (London). Held managerial position in SDS 1982-84. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN71]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in 1990s and 2000s / last 15 years of the existence of the SDS.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HN7Ruling.27Mar2018">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Final-ruling-following-21-March-hearing.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad Ruling 5 ], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN72]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed for short period in 1980s into one group (inferred as 1986-1987). Held significant managerial position in SDS (approx 2005/6), after Macpherson; considered to have important evidence to give regarding spying on the Lawrence family. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN76]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in last years of the SDS into one group and reported on others. Mitting has ruled real and cover names will be restricted as HN76 is a serving police officer 'engaged in sensitive duties', so it would not be in the public interest to 'put performance of those duties at risk'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN77<br />
| ''[[Jackie Anderson (alias)|Jaqueline "Jackie" Anderson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2000-2005 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and the WOMBLES.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN78<br />
| ''[[Bobby_Lewis| Anthony "Bobby" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1991 - 1995 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190716-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN78_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 16 July 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Previously described as deployed Summer 1991-1995 deployed into left wing groups, including some near the Lawrence campaign; joined Special Branch 1986, and SDS in 1991 - leaving that unit by 1996. (Herne II, 12.2; Ellison, 6.4). Aware of Peter Francis' role; said he heard nothing indicating material to smear the Lawrences was being sought (Herne II, 21.1.14; Ellison, 6.3(p), 6.4). Considerable material from him covered in section 6.4 of the Ellison Review (Vol.1).<ref name="herne.2"/><ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN78 is a sexagenarian. HN78 was deployed into two or three groups in the early 1990s. HN78 admits to a relationship with a member of the opposite sex during the deployment. The Inquiry must investigate deployments into these groups, including that of HN78... Further, members of the target groups must have the opportunity to give evidence about the deployment of HN78. To do that, they will need to know the cover name. <br />
<br />
Decision to restrict real name but publish cover name reiterated on 6 June 2018, when Mitting wrote:<ref name="ucpi.minded-to10.6June2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180606-Minded_to_10_and_ruling_9.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' note 10 and Ruling 9], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 June 2018.</ref><br />
: I repeat the reasons set out in the "minded to" note 6 dated 22 March 2018. Further, HN78 has now provided a detailed personal statement in support of the application for a restriction order in respect of the cover name. It provides information about the reasons for the deployments referred to in paragraph 20 of "minded to" note 6, which must be explored in public. It is also necessary that the cover name of HN78 is published, to permit members of the target groups to provide evidence about the deployments and their own activities.<br />
: The reasons for the ruling are those set out in the closed note referred to in paragraph 21 of "minded to" note 6 and in the closed note which accompanies this ruling.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN79<br />
| ''Ross 'RossCo' MacInnes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 tasked against the United British Alliance.<br />
<br />
22 Mar 2018: minded to: restrict real name, and noted:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
:: HN79 was the last undercover officer to be recruited into the Special Duties Squad. He was not fully deployed: the Squad was disbanded before he could be. He found the experience a stressful and unhappy one. He is a serving police officer and is concerned about the impact of the disclosure, in connection with his would-be role as an undercover officer in the Squad, of his real name on his current police duties and on his family. <br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name released April 2018. Ruling of May 2018: real name restricted; application over cover name rejected.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
26 Feb 2018: MPS submit [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180226-MPS-HN79_Application.pdf application to restrict real name only].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN80<br />
| ''Colin Clark''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1977-1982 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name and groups released 26 June 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018">Email to core participants, '20180626_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN80_HN88_HN90_HN106_HN340', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names]</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN80_application.pdf Application made to restrict cover and real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN80 is a septuagenarian. HN80 was deployed as an undercover officer against one group in the late 1970s and early 1980s and encountered and reported on many others. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry because of its length and range and because, according to HN80, it involved a good deal of self-tasking. Publication of the cover name of HN80 may prompt information or evidence from those who encountered HN80 during the deployment. Publication of the real name of HN80 is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would interfere with the right ofHN80 to respect for private and family life. HN80 has expressed fears, which do not appear to be objectively justified, about the risk of violence posed by former targets and their associates. I am prepared to accept that the fears are genuinely held. On the basis of what is t present known, it would be neither proportionate nor justified under article 8(2) of the European Convention to override those fears by refusing to make a restriction order in respect of the real name. <br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[N81|HN81 / N81]]<br />
| ''Dave Hagan''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1996-2001 targeted Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy and Movement for Justice. Referred to extensively in the [[Ellison Review]] in relation to the targeting of the family of Stephen Lawrence. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN82<br />
| ''Nicholas Green''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1982 to 1986 into Socialist Workers Party and Red Action.<ref>Email to core participants, '20180814-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN82_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 August 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> (Previously described as being deployed against two groups in 1980s, one of which said to be violent.) Deceased. Risk assessor finds no risk to safety of his widow, but she has expressed concern all the same, and 'feels' the risk is real. Mitting in his Minded-To of March 2018 indicates the real name shall be restricted while opportunity given to widow of HN82 to make a personal representation at a closed hearing about publication of cover name. Mitting not prepared to act on something vague, but given chance HN82's real name could be discovered via his cover name, the Chair is giving her a chance to make a representation at a closed hearing in respect of the cover name. A closed note also accompanies the open reasons provided in the Minded To.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018 (accessed 10 March 2018).</ref> Subsequent to this, the Inquiry website at unknown date listed the cover name as 'to be published'. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| [[HN83]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in mid-1980s; name restricted due to risk to officer's personal safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N85 / HN85<br />
| [[Roger Pearce]] a.k.a. ''Roger Thorley''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1980-1984 infiltrated Freedom Press and anarchist groups. Later Head of Special Branch and Director of Intelligence for Metropolitan Police Service. Mentioned in the first Operation Herne report and the Ellison Review.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN86|HN86 / N86]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| SDS undercover in late 1970s / early 1980s 'against groups whose principle activities during that time are outside the terms of reference of the Inquiry'. Later Det. Ch. Insp. in operational charge of the SDS for a period in 1990s, and temporary head of S Squad. Mentioned by Herne and Ellison, inlcuding in relation to spying on the Lawrence family. Mitting has ruled the real and cover names will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN87]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s/1990s. Real and cover names restricted for reasons which cannot be made public.<ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN88<br />
| ''[[Timothy Spence (alias)|Timothy Spence]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated the Stoke Newington and Hackney Defence Campaign and the Hackney Campaign Against the Police Bill. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN89 / N89<br />
| ''cover name to come''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated far right in 1990s and 'involved in public order situations where left and right attended'; contemporary of Peter Francis who would confide in N89.<ref name="ellison.1"/> Deceased; real and cover names to be published as no application made to restrict details (Nov 2017 minded-to).<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN90<br />
| ''Mark Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1988-1992 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party and City of London Anti-Apartheid Group.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018"/><br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN90_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
March 2018: Mitting minded to publish cover name but restrict real name, writing:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN90 is a sexagenarian. HN90 was deployed into one group, after a short deployment in another, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The deployment appears to have been unremarkable. The risk to the safety of HN90 arising out of it is nil or negligible. The deployment is, nevertheless, of significant interest to the Inquiry, for at least two reasons: it spanned the period during which the Cold War ended and the focus of undercover deployments may have changed; and it included reporting on Poll Tax demonstrations. Fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry requires that these issues are explored publicly and that those with whom HN90 may have interacted have the opportunity of providing information or evidence about the deployment... It does not require that the real name of HN90 is published.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN91]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in last period of SDS. Neither group poses a threat, but the officer is currently serving in a 'valuable and sensitve role' so real or cover name are to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN95<br />
| ''Stefan Wesolowski''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1985-1988 deployed into Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> <br />
<br />
Apr 2018: Mitting said he was minded-to refuse application to restrict real name, saying:<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/><br />
:: His deployment was problematical and was terminated by his managers abruptly in 1988. He was medically retired soon after. Little or nothing is known about his current circumstances or concerns, save that it is believed he is aware of the attempts which have been made to contact him in connection with the Inquiry. If he is, he has not responded to them.<br />
:: The [MPS] has made an application for a restriction order in respect of his real name. The grounds of the application are generic. They do not identify the respects, if any, in which his right to respect for his private and family life would be infringed by publication of his real name, beyond referring to a paragraph in the risk assessment created on 27 February 2018 which is, itself, generic.... I am not willing to make a restriction order on Article 8 grounds without some good reason for believing that the right to respect for private and family life would be infringed if real or cover name were published. In the case of HN95, I have no such reason. Further, the real name of HN95 and the circumstances in which he came to join and leave the [SDS] are know to responsible journalists. The latter have been put into the public domain by them. I have no reason to believe that any attempt will be made to restrain publication of that which they know - the real name of HN95. In those circumstances, it would be futile to make a restriction order in respect of the real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN96<br />
| ''[[Michael James (alias)|Michael James]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978-1983 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party & Troop Out Movement.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN97]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s into one group and reported on many others. Ruled that real and cover names will be restricted due to a risk to HN97 which cannot be made public.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN101]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party in 1990s. Contemporary of [[Peter Francis]], and according to [[Bob Lambert]], had 'an involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison, p. 214).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN102]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into anarchist groups in the 1980s. Mitting has restricted real and cover names on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN104<br />
| ''[[Carlo Neri (alias)|Carlo Neri]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed March 2000 to Summer 2006 into Socialist Party and No Platform / Antifa.<br />
<br />
Real name known to the activists he spied upon, and who exposed him.<ref name="mitting.supp.minded-to.23Oct2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171023-supplementary-Minded-to.pdf Supplementary 'Minded-To'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2017 (accessed 23 October 2017 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> During the public hearing of 21 November, it was recognised that Carlo's real name was going to be published, the matter effectively reduced to who did it.<ref name="ucpi.hearing.transcript.21Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171121-Anonymity-application-hearing-day-2-Draft-Transcript.pdf Transcript of hearing of 21 November 2017], Undercover Policing Inquiry, 21 November 2017.</ref> whcih was acknowledged in a ruling of Dec 2017.<ref name="ucpi.HN104.20Dec2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171220-HN-104-Ruling.pdf On the application of HN104 for a restriction order in respect of his real name], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry", 20 December 2017.</ref> Discussions on how to publish the name, while respecting rights of the family are on-going (17 July 2018).<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180717-SDS_anonymity_direction_HN104.pdf Application for a restriction order in respect of HN104 - Direction], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN106<br />
| ''[[Barry_Tomkins_(alias)|Barry Tomkins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1979-1983 deployed into the Spartacist League of Britain. Ruled real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN109]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s; later a Det. Insp. in SDS in 1995 (1980s/1990s). Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN112]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 in training though never actually deployed. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN118<br />
| ''[[Simon Wellings (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 2001-2004 (2007) into Globalise Resistance, Socialist Workers Party and Dissent!<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN122<br />
| ''Neil Richardson''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Revolutionary Communist Party & Class War 1989-1993.<ref name="email.ucpi.12Feb2019">Email to core participants, '20190212-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN122', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 12 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN123]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into left wing groups 1993-1998, one of which 'advocated and practiced the use of violence'. Retired from MPS on health grounds & later diagnosed with a mental health condition in part derived from his deployment. Said to have played a part in activities connected to the spying on the Lawrences. Mentioned in both Ellison Review and Herne II. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN125]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a single left wing group in 1980s. Real and cover names to be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN126]]<br />
| ''Paul Gray''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the Socialist Workers Party and Anti-Nazi League 1977-1982.<ref name="email.ucpi.25June2019">Email to core participants, '20190625-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN126_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN135 / [[Mike Ferguson]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated anti-apartheid campaigners including the 'Stop the Seventy' campaign - 1969-1970. Real name given in ''True Spies'' series.<br />
<br />
20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications applications were to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Mar2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: closed hearing to take place.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> July 2018: 'further investigation necessary befor application to restrict the cover name can be determined. The real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
29 Oct 2019: real name released as already in public domain (see ''True Spies''), but cover name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling16.29Oct2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191029-sds_anonymity-ruling_16_san.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Ruling 16'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 29 October 2019.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN155]]<br />
| ''Phil Cooper''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1979/80 to January 1984. Ruled that real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN200<br />
| ''Roger Harris''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1974-1977. <br />
<br />
Minded-To (March 2018): real name cannot be published; cover name to be published.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
Details released 17 July 2018).<ref name="email.ucpi.14July2018">Email to core participants, '20180717_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN25_HN200_direction_HN104', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 July2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Currently in 70s. Deployment apparently unremarkable. Mitting: no reason to publish real name; and HN200 and wife are concerned about media intrustion.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN218 / N218<br />
| [[Barry Moss]] a.k.a.''Barry Morris''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968 into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018"/><br />
<br />
Cover name and real name to be published as no restriction order application made.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> Cover name released May 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018">Email to core participants, '20180501_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN3_HN19_HN20_HN60_HN218_HN353', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 1 May 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Herne II, para. 25.1.2 states: The MPS Director of Intelligence in 1999 has been interviewed by Operation Herne and stated, 'I have been asked if I recall 'any Special Branch plans to mislead the Macpherson Inquiry' into the death of Stephen Lawrence. For part of this time, I was head of Special Branch operations and have no recollection of any such plans.’ Peter Francis has alleged that N218 came out to see him in respect of withholding information from the Macpherson Inquiry. In interview, N218 stated that this meeting or request never happened.<ref name="herne.2"/> There is a strong probablility that N218 is former Special Branch commander [[Barry Moss]].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN241<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into one group in 1970s. Ruling (20 Feb 2018): real and cover names to be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling.20Feb18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-ruling-SDS-anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 4 March 2018).</ref> No allegation of misconduct. Arrested but not charged on one occasion.<ref name="hn241.ra">Brian Lockie, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20171221-HN241-Risk-Assessment.pdf HN241 Risk assessment (open version)], ''Metropolitan Police'', 3 October 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN294]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968-1969 into a group that no longer exists, and reported on others. Held a managerial position in the SDS 1969-1974. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN296<br />
| ''Geoff Wallace''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party from 1975 to 1978;<ref name="email.ucpi.4June2019">Email to core participants, '20190604-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN296_cover_name', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 4 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> no known allegation of misconduct against him. Currently in late 60s.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
He does not live in the UK but is willing to cooperate with the Inquiry.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18"/> Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN297<br />
| Richard Clark a.k.a. ''[[Rick Gibson (alias)|Rick Gibson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated Troop Out Movement 1974-1976 and tasked to infiltrate Big Flame - discovered and confronted by them in 1976. Multiple sexual relationships. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN298<br />
| ''[[Michael Scott (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971 to 1976 into the Young Liberals, Anti-Apartheid Movement and Workers Revolutionary Party. Convicted in 1972 under his cover name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. His cover surname has not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323 / Helen Crampton<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1968 to mid-1970 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in ''True Spies'' under the pseudonym 'Dan'.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover &amp; manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969-1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971-1976 against International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League & Troops Out Movement.<ref name="tw.ucpi.18Dec2018">[https://twitter.com/ucpinquiry/status/1074972312389197826 Cover name released: "David Hughes". Groups: International Marxist Group; Anti-Internment League; Troops Out Movement. Years active: 1971 - 1976.], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (Twitter.com)'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into Anti-Internment League and Northern Minorities Defence Force.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] in 1971.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Women's Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Minded to restrict real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| [[Vincent Harvey]] a.k.a ''Vince Miller''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=SDS_undercover_list&diff=257677SDS undercover list2021-09-23T12:27:25Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=SDS undercover list|Description=A list of all publicly known officers who served undercover with the Special Demonstration Squad, 1968-2008}}<br />
<br />
This page carries a full list of publicly identified undercover police officers who served with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]], their anonymity status within the Undercover Policing Inquiry, and with links to profiles were done. For a more comprehensive list of all N/HN officers in Operation Herne, Ellisor Review and the Undercover Policing Inquiry see the [[N officers]] page.<br />
<br />
Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
<br />
* ''Updated 25 September 2019''<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN1<br />
| ''[[Matt Rayner (alias)|Matt Rayner]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in north London 1991-1996, including London Boots Action Group, London Animal Action, Animal Liberation Front and West London Hunt Saboteurs. Engaged in sexual relationships. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN2]]<br />
| [[Andy Coles]] a.k.a. ''Andy Davey''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in south London 1991-1995; also targeted peace groups. Engaged in sexual relationships. Authored a version of the SDS Tradecraft manual. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN3<br />
| ''[[Jason Bishop (alias)|Jason Bishop]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2006 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and Disarm DSEi. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN4]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into two branches of one group in late 1980s/early 1990s.<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-PN-SDS-minded-to-11.pdf Press notice - 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N5 / HN5<br />
| [[John Dines]] a.k.a. ''John Barker''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 infiltrated London Greenpeace and Animal Liberation Front. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN6]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against three groups in 1990s. Cover and real name restricted due to risk of violence and mental health issues.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN7]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover officer.<br />
| Real and cover names restricted on health grounds. Targets & dates unknown.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN8]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover.<br />
| Deployed into one group in late 1980s / early 1990s. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted on grounds of a physical risk.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN9|N9 / HN9]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer. <br />
| Deployed into one group in 1980s; later was a cover officer for officers of interest deployed in 2000s. Named in Ellison Review. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted as HN9 at risk of suicide if details published.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N10 / HN10<br />
| [[Bob Lambert|Robert "Bob" Lambert]] a.k.a. ''Bob Robinson''<br />
| SDS undercover and head of unit.<br />
| Targeted animal rights groups in north London 1984-1989. Engaged in sexual relationships, including fathering a child by one activist. Later head of the SDS and took part in the Walton-N81 meeting.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN11<br />
| [[Mike Chitty]], a.k.a. ''Mike Blake''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1984-1987 deployed into animal rights groups in south London, including South London Animal Movement. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN12]]<br />
| ''Mike Hartley''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1982-1985, deployed into Revolutionary Communist Group and Socialist Workers Party. Engaged in sexual relationships. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN13]]<br />
| ''Barry / Desmond Loader''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) 1974/5-1978. Twice prosecuted for public order offences in his cover name and convicted once. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N14 / HN14<br />
| [[Jim Boyling]] a.k.a. ''"Grumpy" Jim Sutton''<br />
| SDS Undercover. <br />
| 1995-2000 deployed into Essex Hunt Saboteurs, Reclaim the Streets and Earth First! Engaged in sexual relationships and fathered children by an activist.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN15]]<br />
| [[Mark Jenner]] a.k.a. ''Mark Cassidy''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1995-2000 targeted Colin Roach Centre, Anti-Fascist Action, Independent Working Class Association, Republican Forum. Mentioned by Lambert as an SDS UCO who 'would have involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison page 214). Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N16 / HN16 <br />
| ''[[James Straven_(alias)|James Straven]]'' and ''Kevin Crossland''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1997-2002 deployed into the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Brixton and Croydon Hunt Saboteurs. Used two cover names, including the identity of a dead child. Lied about having had relationships with women. One of them, 'Ellie', came forward.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN17]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Targeted right wing groups in 1990s (last 15 years of SDS existence).<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN18]]<br />
| ''[[Rob Harrison (alias)|Rob Harrison]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2004-2007 deployed into State of Emergency Collective, No Borders London, Globalise Resistance, rampART and the International Solidarity Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN19<br />
| ''[[Malcolm Shearing (alias)|Malcolm Shearing]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1981 to 1985 deployed into Revolutionary Communist Party &amp; Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist/Leninist). Arrested and cautioned for bill posting. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN20<br />
| ''[[Tony Williams (alias)|Tony Williams]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978 to 1982 deployed into the Revolutionary Communist Tendency and Direct Action Movement. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN21]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1970s / early 1980s against one group & reported on others. Ruled that real and cover names to be restricted on mental health grounds. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN23]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1990s. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN25]]<br />
| ''Kevin Douglas'<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 deployed into the Troops Out Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN26<br />
| ''[[Christine Green (alias)|Christine Green]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1994-1999 into animal rights groups including Animal Liberation Front, London Animal Action and West London Hunt Saboteurs.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN27]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of left wing groups in the 1990s. In 60s. Ruling made that real and cover names will be restricted on grounds the officer is 'at risk to life and limb' given the nature of deployment and activities undertaken. Mentioned in Ellison.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN28<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups and reported on others in last 15 years of SDS. Minded to: restrict real and cover names as at risk of serious violence if identity discovered.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/201805223-PN_SDS_MT_9.pdf 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad Ruling on HN122], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref> Had been directed to file anonymity application by 24/27 April 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.19Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180419_direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 April 2018.</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180426_HN28_application.pdf Open application over real and cover names (26 Apr 2018)]<br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN33/98<br />
| ''[[Lee Bonser (alias)|Kathryn Lesley 'Lee' Bonser]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Socialist Workers Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN40|N40]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Undercover in last decade of the unit.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> Mentioned in relation to how information from the SDS, particularly on the identities of protestors, was passed on to the rest of the police (Herne II, 13.4, 24.1.3).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN41]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in the 1970s and 1980s, of which the principle target group no longer exists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N43<br />
| Peter Francis, a.k.a. ''Peter Daley / Johnson / Black''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1993-1997 infiltrated Youth against Racism in Europe and Militant & Socialist Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN44<br />
| ''Darren Prowse''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Tasked to infiltrate the British National Party in 2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.5June2018">Email to core participants, '20180605_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN44_HN155_HN303', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS-CL_HN44_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] 26 Feb 2018 (published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref>) which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Mitting wrote (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
:: HN44 is a serving Metropolitan Police officer. In the last period of existence of the Special Duties Squad he was deployed to build a legend to permit him to infiltrate violent elements of one group. The Special Duties Squad was closed and his deployment was ended before he had succeeded in doing so. His evidence about the closure of the Squad is likely to be of interest to the Inquiry. In the (very) unlikely event that any member of he target group can provide or wishes to provide any information about him, publication of his cover name, which ill occur, is all that is required to prompt them to do so. Publication of his real name would give rise to a eal risk of interference in the private and family life of HN44 and his family and a contingent risk to their safety. It is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. It would be neither proportionate nor justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN45<br />
| ''[[Dave Robertson (alias)|Dave Robertson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| 1970-1973 infiltrated Banner Books, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and maoist groups in North London. Worked in back office in SDS in adminstrative role for 3 years in 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN48<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN53|HN53/N53]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1980s; Second in Operational Command of SDS 1998-2005 (Det. Insp.). Though evidence is of importance to Inquiry, there is a contingent physical risk which justifies restricting real and cover names. Mentioned in Herne I & II, and Ellison. Ruled that neither real or cover names can be released by the Inquiry.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN56<br />
| ''[[Alan 'Nick' Nicholson (alias)|Alan 'Nick' Nicholson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1990-1991 targeted British National Party.<ref name = covernamesApril>Undercover Policing Inquiry, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ Update of Cover names page], ucpi.org.uk, 17 April 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN58]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| DCI in charge of SDS 1997 - 2001. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN60<br />
| ''[[Dave Evans (alias)|Dave Evans]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2005 deployed into Socialist Workers Party, London Animal Action & Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN64]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in 1990s and reported on others.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN65<br />
| ''John Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1980 - 1984 targeted Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN65_application.pdf Application made to restrict real and cover names] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/> [https://cnduk.org/statement-on-police-infiltration-of-cnd/ CND statement]<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
In March 2018, Mitting wrote:<br />
:: N65 is a sexagenarian. HN65 was deployed against one group in the early 1980s. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry. The group, which was well known, posed no serious threat to public order. Its embers posed,and pose, no risk to the safety of HN65. One of the issues which the Inquiry must investigate, publicly, is why HN65 was deployed against the group and what, if anything, was done with intelligence provided on it by HN65. HN65 is likely to be the principal, perhaps only, source of information about these issues. Publication of the cover name of HN65, together with the name of the group infiltrated, should prompt further information and evidence from members of the group, likely to be of value to the Inquiry.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN66<br />
| ''[[Edward David Jones (alias)|Edward David Jones (Bob the Builder, Edge, Dave)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against London Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action (Drax) 2005-2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.8Jan2018">Email to core participants, '20190108-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN66', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 January 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> In 60s.<br />
<br />
HN66 is the same as the NPOIU officer EN327.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180502_press_notice_NPOIU_anonymity.pdf Press Notice: 'Minded to' note: applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN67<br />
| ''[[Alan Bond (alias)|Alan Bond]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1981- 86 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="email.ucpi.7June2018">Email to core participants, '20180607_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN67_HN68_HAB_CP19', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Admits to having a 'fleeting sexual encounter in his cover name with one woman who was not a member of his target group'. Later second in command of SDS for three years in 1990s. Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN68<br />
| ''[[Sean Lynch (alias)|Sean Lynch]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1968-74 infiltrated Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign and Sinn Féin (London). Held managerial position in SDS 1982-84. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN71]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in 1990s and 2000s / last 15 years of the existence of the SDS.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HN7Ruling.27Mar2018">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Final-ruling-following-21-March-hearing.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad Ruling 5 ], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN72]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed for short period in 1980s into one group (inferred as 1986-1987). Held significant managerial position in SDS (approx 2005/6), after Macpherson; considered to have important evidence to give regarding spying on the Lawrence family. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN76]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in last years of the SDS into one group and reported on others. Mitting has ruled real and cover names will be restricted as HN76 is a serving police officer 'engaged in sensitive duties', so it would not be in the public interest to 'put performance of those duties at risk'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN77<br />
| ''[[Jackie Anderson (alias)|Jaqueline "Jackie" Anderson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2000-2005 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and the WOMBLES.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN78<br />
| ''[[Bobby_Lewis| Anthony "Bobby" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1991 - 1995 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190716-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN78_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 16 July 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Previously described as deployed Summer 1991-1995 deployed into left wing groups, including some near the Lawrence campaign; joined Special Branch 1986, and SDS in 1991 - leaving that unit by 1996. (Herne II, 12.2; Ellison, 6.4). Aware of Peter Francis' role; said he heard nothing indicating material to smear the Lawrences was being sought (Herne II, 21.1.14; Ellison, 6.3(p), 6.4). Considerable material from him covered in section 6.4 of the Ellison Review (Vol.1).<ref name="herne.2"/><ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN78 is a sexagenarian. HN78 was deployed into two or three groups in the early 1990s. HN78 admits to a relationship with a member of the opposite sex during the deployment. The Inquiry must investigate deployments into these groups, including that of HN78... Further, members of the target groups must have the opportunity to give evidence about the deployment of HN78. To do that, they will need to know the cover name. <br />
<br />
Decision to restrict real name but publish cover name reiterated on 6 June 2018, when Mitting wrote:<ref name="ucpi.minded-to10.6June2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180606-Minded_to_10_and_ruling_9.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' note 10 and Ruling 9], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 June 2018.</ref><br />
: I repeat the reasons set out in the "minded to" note 6 dated 22 March 2018. Further, HN78 has now provided a detailed personal statement in support of the application for a restriction order in respect of the cover name. It provides information about the reasons for the deployments referred to in paragraph 20 of "minded to" note 6, which must be explored in public. It is also necessary that the cover name of HN78 is published, to permit members of the target groups to provide evidence about the deployments and their own activities.<br />
: The reasons for the ruling are those set out in the closed note referred to in paragraph 21 of "minded to" note 6 and in the closed note which accompanies this ruling.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN79<br />
| ''Ross 'RossCo' MacInnes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 tasked against the United British Alliance.<br />
<br />
22 Mar 2018: minded to: restrict real name, and noted:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
:: HN79 was the last undercover officer to be recruited into the Special Duties Squad. He was not fully deployed: the Squad was disbanded before he could be. He found the experience a stressful and unhappy one. He is a serving police officer and is concerned about the impact of the disclosure, in connection with his would-be role as an undercover officer in the Squad, of his real name on his current police duties and on his family. <br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name released April 2018. Ruling of May 2018: real name restricted; application over cover name rejected.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
26 Feb 2018: MPS submit [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180226-MPS-HN79_Application.pdf application to restrict real name only].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN80<br />
| ''Colin Clark''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1977-1982 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name and groups released 26 June 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018">Email to core participants, '20180626_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN80_HN88_HN90_HN106_HN340', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names]</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN80_application.pdf Application made to restrict cover and real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN80 is a septuagenarian. HN80 was deployed as an undercover officer against one group in the late 1970s and early 1980s and encountered and reported on many others. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry because of its length and range and because, according to HN80, it involved a good deal of self-tasking. Publication of the cover name of HN80 may prompt information or evidence from those who encountered HN80 during the deployment. Publication of the real name of HN80 is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would interfere with the right ofHN80 to respect for private and family life. HN80 has expressed fears, which do not appear to be objectively justified, about the risk of violence posed by former targets and their associates. I am prepared to accept that the fears are genuinely held. On the basis of what is t present known, it would be neither proportionate nor justified under article 8(2) of the European Convention to override those fears by refusing to make a restriction order in respect of the real name. <br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[N81|HN81 / N81]]<br />
| ''Dave Hagan''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1996-2001 targeted Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy and Movement for Justice. Referred to extensively in the [[Ellison Review]] in relation to the targeting of the family of Stephen Lawrence. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN82<br />
| ''Nicholas Green''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1982 to 1986 into Socialist Workers Party and Red Action.<ref>Email to core participants, '20180814-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN82_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 August 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> (Previously described as being deployed against two groups in 1980s, one of which said to be violent.) Deceased. Risk assessor finds no risk to safety of his widow, but she has expressed concern all the same, and 'feels' the risk is real. Mitting in his Minded-To of March 2018 indicates the real name shall be restricted while opportunity given to widow of HN82 to make a personal representation at a closed hearing about publication of cover name. Mitting not prepared to act on something vague, but given chance HN82's real name could be discovered via his cover name, the Chair is giving her a chance to make a representation at a closed hearing in respect of the cover name. A closed note also accompanies the open reasons provided in the Minded To.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018 (accessed 10 March 2018).</ref> Subsequent to this, the Inquiry website at unknown date listed the cover name as 'to be published'. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| [[HN83]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in mid-1980s; name restricted due to risk to officer's personal safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N85 / HN85<br />
| [[Roger Pearce]] a.k.a. ''Roger Thorley''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1980-1984 infiltrated Freedom Press and anarchist groups. Later Head of Special Branch and Director of Intelligence for Metropolitan Police Service. Mentioned in the first Operation Herne report and the Ellison Review.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN86|HN86 / N86]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| SDS undercover in late 1970s / early 1980s 'against groups whose principle activities during that time are outside the terms of reference of the Inquiry'. Later Det. Ch. Insp. in operational charge of the SDS for a period in 1990s, and temporary head of S Squad. Mentioned by Herne and Ellison, inlcuding in relation to spying on the Lawrence family. Mitting has ruled the real and cover names will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN87]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s/1990s. Real and cover names restricted for reasons which cannot be made public.<ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN88<br />
| ''[[Timothy Spence (alias)|Timothy Spence]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated the Stoke Newington and Hackney Defence Campaign and the Hackney Campaign Against the Police Bill. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN89 / N89<br />
| ''cover name to come''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated far right in 1990s and 'involved in public order situations where left and right attended'; contemporary of Peter Francis who would confide in N89.<ref name="ellison.1"/> Deceased; real and cover names to be published as no application made to restrict details (Nov 2017 minded-to).<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN90<br />
| ''Mark Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1988-1992 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party and City of London Anti-Apartheid Group.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018"/><br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN90_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
March 2018: Mitting minded to publish cover name but restrict real name, writing:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN90 is a sexagenarian. HN90 was deployed into one group, after a short deployment in another, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The deployment appears to have been unremarkable. The risk to the safety of HN90 arising out of it is nil or negligible. The deployment is, nevertheless, of significant interest to the Inquiry, for at least two reasons: it spanned the period during which the Cold War ended and the focus of undercover deployments may have changed; and it included reporting on Poll Tax demonstrations. Fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry requires that these issues are explored publicly and that those with whom HN90 may have interacted have the opportunity of providing information or evidence about the deployment... It does not require that the real name of HN90 is published.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN91]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in last period of SDS. Neither group poses a threat, but the officer is currently serving in a 'valuable and sensitve role' so real or cover name are to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN95<br />
| ''Stefan Wesolowski''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1985-1988 deployed into Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> <br />
<br />
Apr 2018: Mitting said he was minded-to refuse application to restrict real name, saying:<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/><br />
:: His deployment was problematical and was terminated by his managers abruptly in 1988. He was medically retired soon after. Little or nothing is known about his current circumstances or concerns, save that it is believed he is aware of the attempts which have been made to contact him in connection with the Inquiry. If he is, he has not responded to them.<br />
:: The [MPS] has made an application for a restriction order in respect of his real name. The grounds of the application are generic. They do not identify the respects, if any, in which his right to respect for his private and family life would be infringed by publication of his real name, beyond referring to a paragraph in the risk assessment created on 27 February 2018 which is, itself, generic.... I am not willing to make a restriction order on Article 8 grounds without some good reason for believing that the right to respect for private and family life would be infringed if real or cover name were published. In the case of HN95, I have no such reason. Further, the real name of HN95 and the circumstances in which he came to join and leave the [SDS] are know to responsible journalists. The latter have been put into the public domain by them. I have no reason to believe that any attempt will be made to restrain publication of that which they know - the real name of HN95. In those circumstances, it would be futile to make a restriction order in respect of the real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN96<br />
| ''[[Michael James (alias)|Michael James]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978-1983 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party & Troop Out Movement.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN97]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s into one group and reported on many others. Ruled that real and cover names will be restricted due to a risk to HN97 which cannot be made public.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN101]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party in 1990s. Contemporary of [[Peter Francis]], and according to [[Bob Lambert]], had 'an involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison, p. 214).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN102]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into anarchist groups in the 1980s. Mitting has restricted real and cover names on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN104<br />
| ''[[Carlo Neri (alias)|Carlo Neri]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed March 2000 to Summer 2006 into Socialist Party and No Platform / Antifa.<br />
<br />
Real name known to the activists he spied upon, and who exposed him.<ref name="mitting.supp.minded-to.23Oct2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171023-supplementary-Minded-to.pdf Supplementary 'Minded-To'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2017 (accessed 23 October 2017 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> During the public hearing of 21 November, it was recognised that Carlo's real name was going to be published, the matter effectively reduced to who did it.<ref name="ucpi.hearing.transcript.21Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171121-Anonymity-application-hearing-day-2-Draft-Transcript.pdf Transcript of hearing of 21 November 2017], Undercover Policing Inquiry, 21 November 2017.</ref> whcih was acknowledged in a ruling of Dec 2017.<ref name="ucpi.HN104.20Dec2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171220-HN-104-Ruling.pdf On the application of HN104 for a restriction order in respect of his real name], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry", 20 December 2017.</ref> Discussions on how to publish the name, while respecting rights of the family are on-going (17 July 2018).<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180717-SDS_anonymity_direction_HN104.pdf Application for a restriction order in respect of HN104 - Direction], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN106<br />
| ''[[Barry_Tomkins_(alias)|Barry Tomkins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1979-1983 deployed into the Spartacist League of Britain. Ruled real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN109]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s; later a Det. Insp. in SDS in 1995 (1980s/1990s). Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN112]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 in training though never actually deployed. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN118<br />
| ''[[Simon Wellings (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 2001-2004 (2007) into Globalise Resistance, Socialist Workers Party and Dissent!<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN122<br />
| ''Neil Richardson''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Revolutionary Communist Party & Class War 1989-1993.<ref name="email.ucpi.12Feb2019">Email to core participants, '20190212-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN122', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 12 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN123]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into left wing groups 1993-1998, one of which 'advocated and practiced the use of violence'. Retired from MPS on health grounds & later diagnosed with a mental health condition in part derived from his deployment. Said to have played a part in activities connected to the spying on the Lawrences. Mentioned in both Ellison Review and Herne II. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN125]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a single left wing group in 1980s. Real and cover names to be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN126]]<br />
| ''Paul Gray''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the Socialist Workers Party and Anti-Nazi League 1977-1982.<ref name="email.ucpi.25June2019">Email to core participants, '20190625-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN126_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN135 / [[Mike Ferguson]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated anti-apartheid campaigners including the 'Stop the Seventy' campaign - 1969-1970. Real name given in ''True Spies'' series.<br />
<br />
20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications applications were to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Mar2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: closed hearing to take place.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> July 2018: 'further investigation necessary befor application to restrict the cover name can be determined. The real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
29 Oct 2019: real name released as already in public domain (see ''True Spies''), but cover name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling16.29Oct2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191029-sds_anonymity-ruling_16_san.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Ruling 16'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 29 October 2019.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN155]]<br />
| ''Phil Cooper''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1979/80 to January 1984. Ruled that real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN200<br />
| ''Roger Harris''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1974-1977. <br />
<br />
Minded-To (March 2018): real name cannot be published; cover name to be published.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
Details released 17 July 2018).<ref name="email.ucpi.14July2018">Email to core participants, '20180717_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN25_HN200_direction_HN104', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 July2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Currently in 70s. Deployment apparently unremarkable. Mitting: no reason to publish real name; and HN200 and wife are concerned about media intrustion.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN218 / N218<br />
| ''Barry Morris''<br />
| SDS undercover and probably manager<br />
| Deployed 1968 into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018"/><br />
<br />
Cover name and real name to be published as no restriction order application made.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> Cover name released May 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018">Email to core participants, '20180501_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN3_HN19_HN20_HN60_HN218_HN353', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 1 May 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Herne II, para. 25.1.2 states: The MPS Director of Intelligence in 1999 has been interviewed by Operation Herne and stated, 'I have been asked if I recall 'any Special Branch plans to mislead the Macpherson Inquiry' into the death of Stephen Lawrence. For part of this time, I was head of Special Branch operations and have no recollection of any such plans.’ Peter Francis has alleged that N218 came out to see him in respect of withholding information from the Macpherson Inquiry. In interview, N218 stated that this meeting or request never happened.<ref name="herne.2"/> There is a strong probablility that N218 is former Special Branch commander [[Barry Moss]].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN241<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into one group in 1970s. Ruling (20 Feb 2018): real and cover names to be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling.20Feb18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-ruling-SDS-anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 4 March 2018).</ref> No allegation of misconduct. Arrested but not charged on one occasion.<ref name="hn241.ra">Brian Lockie, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20171221-HN241-Risk-Assessment.pdf HN241 Risk assessment (open version)], ''Metropolitan Police'', 3 October 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN294]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968-1969 into a group that no longer exists, and reported on others. Held a managerial position in the SDS 1969-1974. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN296<br />
| ''Geoff Wallace''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party from 1975 to 1978;<ref name="email.ucpi.4June2019">Email to core participants, '20190604-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN296_cover_name', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 4 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> no known allegation of misconduct against him. Currently in late 60s.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
He does not live in the UK but is willing to cooperate with the Inquiry.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18"/> Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN297<br />
| ''[[Rick Gibson (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated Troop Out Movement 1974-1976 and tasked to infiltrate Big Flame - discovered and confronted by them in 1976. Multiple sexual relationships. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN298<br />
| ''[[Michael Scott (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971 to 1976 into the Young Liberals, Anti-Apartheid Movement and Workers Revolutionary Party. Convicted in 1972 under his cover name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. His cover surname has not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323 / Helen Crampton<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1968 to mid-1970 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in ''True Spies'' under the pseudonym 'Dan'.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover &amp; manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969-1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971-1976 against International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League & Troops Out Movement.<ref name="tw.ucpi.18Dec2018">[https://twitter.com/ucpinquiry/status/1074972312389197826 Cover name released: "David Hughes". Groups: International Marxist Group; Anti-Internment League; Troops Out Movement. Years active: 1971 - 1976.], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (Twitter.com)'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into Anti-Internment League and Northern Minorities Defence Force.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] in 1971.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Womens Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Minded to restrict real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| ''[[Vincent Harvey]]''<br />
| SDS undercover as ''Vince Miller''<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. <br />
|}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Vincent_Harvey&diff=257676Vincent Harvey2021-09-23T12:26:07Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=Vincent James Harvey|Alias=Vince Miller, HN354|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Vince miller (headshot).jpg |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1976-1979|Targets=Socialist Workers Party}}<br />
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'''Vincent James Harvey''' is a former senior police officer who served as Director of the UK Division at the [[National Criminal Intelligence Service]] 1998 to 2003.<ref name="almanacs">Police & Constabulary Almanacs, ''R Maxwell & Co'', various years.</ref> Prior to this he had been a Special Branch officer including serving as an undercover in the [[Special Demonstration Squad]]. For the purposes of the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] he was also referred to by the cipher '''HN354''' (for the N cipher system see [[N officers]]).<br />
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While with the SDS he used the cover name '''Vince Miller''' to infiltrate the Socialist Workers Party from 1976 to 1979.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing an update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> According to Sir John Mitting, Chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the officer's 'deployment appears to have been unremarkable, despite the fact that he has admitted four 'fleeting' sexual encounters with different females during his deployment - two of them with female members of the Walthamstow branch of the Socialist Workers Party. Mitting ruled the officers real name would be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> <br />
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One of those from Walthamstow SWP was 'Madeleine', who was granted core participant status in the Undercover Policing Inquiry on 6 January 2021.<ref name="Madeline">[https://t.co/PQaopq9CVz?amp=1 Core participants Ruling 39, Recognised Legal Representatives Ruling 32, Cost of Legal Representation Awards Ruling 31 Application for a restriction order by ‘Madeleine'] ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 January 2021.</ref>. While Harvey had initially characterised the relationship with her as a one night stand, Madeleine stated that the relationship lasted ‘upto two months’ and the potential of the relationship lasting seemed to her ‘to hold out a lot of promise’. She also provided material disproving Harvey's assertations.<br />
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Following a statement from Madeleine, Mitting decided to revoke the restriction order over the real name though not before both the undercover and Madeleine gave evidence.<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021"/> In April 2021 both gave live evidence and the restriction order over his real name was revoked in September 2021.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210920-order-revoking_HN354_anonymity.pdf Revocation of a restiction order under Sectoon 19 of the Inquiries Act 2005: HN354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 September 2021 (viewed 20 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==As an SDS undercover officer==<br />
<br />
A full profile of Harvey's time as an undercover police officer is being prepared.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf Witness statement of Vincent James Harvey] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ list of associated exhibits].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/evidence-hearings-t1-p2-day-14-am/ Transcript of Harvey's evidence to the Inquiry].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/UCPI0000034356.pdf Gist of Harvey's accounts of sexual relationships while undercover]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034313.pdf Witness statement of 'Madeleine']<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-ucpi-t1_p2-evidence_hearings-transcript.pdf Transcript of Madeleine's evidence to the Inquiry] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-index.pdf index of associated exhibits].<br />
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Photographs of Vincent Harvey, while undercover as 'Vince Miller', provided by Madeleine.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034311.pdf Photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034330.pdf First additional photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034331.pdf Second additional photograph]<br />
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==Post undercover career==<br />
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===National Criminal Intelligence Service===<br />
[[File: 564598 vinceharvey150.jpg|thumb|200px|Vince Harvey of the NCIS speaking at the launch of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency in December 1999]]<br />
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In 1998, Harvey is named Director of National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) as head of its UK Division, a title which later became UK Tactical Services Division. This appears to have been at rank of Assistant Chief Constable.<ref>Both his predecessor [https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/runciman/pfapp3.htm Peter Clay], and successor Keith Bristow, are given the rank of Assistant Chief Constable, while the NCIS Director General has rank Chief Constable.</ref>. He held the position until 2002, when he is succeed by [[Keith Bristow]].<ref>[https://www.cclsolutionsgroup.com/team-member/keith-bristow Keith Bristow, Chairman], ''CCL Solutions Group'', undated (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref> During this time he is one of the NCIS's senior managers, answering directly to the Director General [[John Abbott]].<br />
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According to archives of the NCIS website, the UK Division 'targets UK serious and organised crime as it effects the UK' and included:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19991011135345/http://www.ncis.co.uk:80/web/Publications/uk_division.htm UK Division], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service], 1999 (archive.org grab of http://www.ncis.co.uk/web/Publications/uk_division.htm, made 11 October 1999)</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010408112149/http://www.ncis.co.uk/uk.html UK]], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service], 2001 (archive.org grab of http://www.ncis.co.uk/uk.html, made 8 April 2008).</ref> the NCIS regional offices in Midlands, North East, North West, Scotland, South East and South West and the Strategic and Specialist Intelligence Branch which was subdivided into:<br />
* Organised Crime Unit<br />
* Drugs Unit<br />
* Strategic Research & Development Unit<br />
* Specialist Crimes Unit (including Paedophile Section, Kidnap & Extortion, Counterfeit Section & Vehicle Crime)<br />
* Economic Unit<br />
* Football Unit<br />
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During his time at the NCIS, it had responsibility for the [[Animal Rights National Index]] (a forerunner of another undercover policing unit, [[National Public Order Intelligence Unit]] and the [[National Domestic Extremism Database]]. It had wide ranging surveillance powers, including telephone and email interception and covert surveillance, though it is not known if it had its own undercover unit.<ref>Andrew Clennell, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/sep/28/ukcrime.immigrationpolicy1 Intelligence head to leave next year], ''The Guardian'', 28 September 2002 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19991109060813/http://www.ncis.co.uk/web/Publications/special_projects_branch.htm Special Projects Branch], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service], 1999 (archive.org grab of http://www.ncis.co.uk/web/Publications/special_projects_branch.htm, made 9 October 1999).</ref><br />
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In April 2001 he gave evidence to the Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on the Proceeds of Crime Bill,<ref>[http://archive.niassembly.gov.uk/adhocs/proceeds_crime/minutes/010426.htm Minutes of Proceedings], ''Northern ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on Proceeds of Crime Bill'', 26 April 2001 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref> while in 2003 he appears to have had specific responsibility for the economic crime unit as the director of 999 (archive.org grabSpecialist Intelligence.<ref>Police & Constabulary Almanac, ''R Maxwell & Co'', 2003.</ref> The NCIS website notes its responsibilities in 2003 as:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030706201210/http://ncis.co.uk/specialistintelligence.asp Specialist Intelligence Branch], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service'', 2003 (archive.org grab of http://ncis.co.uk/specialistintelligence.asp 6 July 2003).</ref><br />
* Economic Crime Branch<br />
* Specialist Intelligence Branch which included many of the same units as in previous years.<br />
* Special Projects Branch which:<br />
:: consists of three units: Operations Support, Special Liaison, and National Source Management, which support police and national and international intelligence agencies with specialist services in gathering, analysis and intelligence dissemination.<br />
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===Media appearance while with the NCIS===<br />
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Vince Harvey made a number of media appearances during his time as a Director of the NCIS:<br />
* June 1999: speaker at a national drugs conference in Blackpool.<ref>Jason Bennetto, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/drug-factories-become-britain-s-new-illegal-cottage-industry-1102957.html Drug factories become Britain's new illegal cottage industry], ''The Independent, 27 June 1999 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* December 1999: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/564476.stm a speaker at the launch of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency (including a photograph)].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/564476.stm Scotland 'leading drugs battle'], ''BBC News Online'', 14 December 1999 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* 2000: interviewed for a US tv programme 'Lords of the Mafia, Britain & Sicily', on the differences between European and American crime syndicates.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/title/lords-of-the-mafia-britain-sicily/oclc/414149283 Lords of the Mafia. Britain & Sicily.], ''WorldCat.org'', undated (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* November 2000: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1042788.stm quoted in and photograph to accompany a BBC News special investigation gangs operating in Essex].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1042788.stm Essex gangland booms]], ''BBC News Online'', 27 November 2000 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* November 2000: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1044604.stm quoted in BBC News Online in relation to investigation on organised criminal gangs operating in Essex], of whom he said:<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1044604.stm Looking for a quieter life], ''BBC News Online'', 28 November 2000 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: These are thoroughly unpleasant people who don't mind using any technique if it furthers their own cause.<br />
* May 2002: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1998515.stm BBC news story on mass arrest of 36 people suspected of downloading child pornography] as part of [[Operation Ore]]. Harvey is quoted as saying:<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1998515.stm Mass arrests over online child porn], ''BBC News Online'', 20 May 2002 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: Every image of a child being sexually abused is an image of a crime scene and each photograph is that of a victim. Using the sophisticated technology along with traditional detective and analytical work, we can now make sure there is no place for paedophiles operating online to hide.<br />
* July 2003: quoted as 'director of economic crime' at the NCIS in relation to a critical report that there was a 58,000 case backlog of on financial crime.<ref>Jill Treanor, [https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2003/jul/02/4 Money-laundering assault beefed up], ''The Guardian'', 2 July 2003 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* September 2003: quoted as head of NCIS Economic Crime Branch on an increase in disclosure on money laundering from Scottish solicitors.<ref>[https://www.lawscot.org.uk/members/journal/issues/vol-48-issue-09/praise-on-anti-money-laundering-efforts/ Praise on anti-money laundering efforts], ''Journal of the Law Society of Scotland'', 1 September 2003 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
[[File:Vinceharvey ncis.jpg|thumb|200px|Vince Harvey of NCIS as he appears in a BBC news special investigation on organised crime in Essex, November 2000]]<br />
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* 22 November 2017: directed that any application for anonymity from the MPS Legal Team by were to be made by 30 November, and for the MPS Designated Lawyer Team by 4 December 2017<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171122-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 November 2017 (accessed 26 November 2017).</ref><br />
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* 29 November 2017: Metropolitan Police make application to restrict real name only.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20171129-MPS_CL-HN354_application.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN354], '''Metropolitan Police Service'', 29 November 2017, published 9 July 2018).</ref><ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 15 Jan 2018: Mitting indicates he is minded to grant the restriction order over real name and that there was no application in relation to cover name which will be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr2.15Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180115-Nov-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press notice - ‘Minded-to’ anonymity: Special Demonstration Squad Officers (HN13, HN296, HN304, HN339, HN340, HN354, HN356/124, HN61, HN819, HN109, HN9, HN66)], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref> The Inquiry Chair also stated:<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018.</ref><br />
:: In the unlikely event that any member of the public can be prompted to give evidence about his deployment publication of his cover name would serve that purpose.' Publication of real name is not necessary to permit Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would give rise to interference with his article 8 rights to private and family life.<br />
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* 19 June 2018: cover name and target group released.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018"/><br />
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* 9 July 2018: provisional ruling to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref> Directed that any objections to this to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 30 July 2018: final ruling that HN354's real name will be restricted in the Inquiry.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 9 October 2018: Restriction order granted over disclosure of any information by the Inquiry which would lead to the identification of HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/><br />
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* 6 January 2021: "'Madeleine' applies to be designated as a core participant in Category [H]. She joined the Walthamstow branch of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mid-1970s. This branch of the SWP was infiltrated by HN354 ('Vince Miller') between the beginning of 1977 and September 1979". She says to have had an sexual relationship with him between 1978 and 1979, 'the last year of his deployment' which is of some significance to her. This ended with his sudden departure.<ref name="Madeline"/><br />
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* 30 March 2021 (revised 6 April 2021): Mitting issues a ruling that HN354's real name will be revoked in light of Madeleine's witness statement where she sets out the relationship with the undercover. There will be a delay in doing this because:<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210330-ruling-HN354_real_name.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 19], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 March 2021, revised 6 April 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: It is, however, imperative that the risk of a seriously adverse impact on his immediate family member is not run. Madeleine accepts that it should not be. For that reason, the Inquiry will not publish the real name of HN354 before the risk has passed; and it will not be revoked before he gives evidence. <br />
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* 21 September 2021: Mitting revoked the restriction order over HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/> The same day Harvey's witness statement is re-released containing the full real name, Vincent James Harvey.<ref name=harvey.1stWS.20Sept2021">Vincent Harvey, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf First Witness Statement of HN354 as supplemented], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', signed 18 November 2019, supplemented 10 March 2021; reissued by Undercover Policing Inquiry on 21 September 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref> Three photographs provided by Madeleine of Harvey while he was undercover were also released through the Inquiry website.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ HN 354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.uk'' (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Vincent_Harvey&diff=257675Vincent Harvey2021-09-22T19:40:45Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=Vincent James Harvey|Alias=Vince Miller, HN354|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Vince miller (headshot).jpg |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1976-1979|Targets=Socialist Workers Party}}<br />
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'''Vincent James Harvey''' is a former senior police officer who served as Director of the UK Division at the [[National Criminal Intelligence Service]] 1998 to 2003.<ref name="almanacs">Police & Constabulary Almanacs, ''R Maxwell & Co'', various years.</ref> Prior to this he had been a Special Branch officer including serving as an undercover in the [[Special Demonstration Squad]].<br />
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While with the SDS he used the cover name '''Vince Miller''' to infiltrate the Socialist Workers Party from 1976 to 1979.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing an update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> According to Sir John Mitting, Chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the officer's 'deployment appears to have been unremarkable, despite the fact that he has admitted four 'fleeting' sexual encounters with different females during his deployment - two of them with female members of the Walthamstow branch of the SWP. One of them was 'Madeleine', who was granted core participant status in the Undercover Policing Inquiry on 6 January 2021.<ref name="Madeline">[https://t.co/PQaopq9CVz?amp=1 Core participants Ruling 39, Recognised Legal Representatives Ruling 32, Cost of Legal Representation Awards Ruling 31 Application for a restriction order by ‘Madeleine'] ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 January 2021.</ref>.<br />
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For the purposes of the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] he was also referred to by the cipher '''HN354''' (for the N cipher system see [[N officers]]). The Inquiry had ruled his real name would be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
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Following a statement from Madeleine, Mitting decided to revoke the restriction order over the real name though not before both the undercover and Madeleine gave evidence.<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021"/> In April 2021 both gave live evidence to the Undercover Policing Inquiry. The restriction order over his real name was revoked in September 2021.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210920-order-revoking_HN354_anonymity.pdf Revocation of a restiction order under Sectoon 19 of the Inquiries Act 2005: HN354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 September 2021 (viewed 20 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==As an SDS undercover officer==<br />
<br />
A full profile of Harvey's time as an undercover police officer is being prepared.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf Witness statement of Vincent James Harvey] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ list of associated exhibits].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/evidence-hearings-t1-p2-day-14-am/ Transcript of Harvey's evidence to the Inquiry].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/UCPI0000034356.pdf Gist of Harvey's accounts of sexual relationships while undercover]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034313.pdf Witness statement of 'Madeleine']<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-ucpi-t1_p2-evidence_hearings-transcript.pdf Transcript of Madeleine's evidence to the Inquiry] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-index.pdf index of associated exhibits].<br />
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Photographs of Vincent Harvey, while undercover as 'Vince Miller', provided by Madeleine.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034311.pdf Photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034330.pdf First additional photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034331.pdf Second additional photograph]<br />
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File:Vince Miller undercover late 1970s image2.jpg<br />
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==Post undercover career==<br />
===National Criminal Intelligence Service===<br />
[[File: 564598 vinceharvey150.jpg|thumb|200px|Vince Harvey of the NCIS speaking at the launch of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency in December 1999]]<br />
<br />
In 1998, Harvey is named Director of National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) as head of its UK Division, a title which later became UK Tactical Services Division. This appears to have been at rank of Assistant Chief Constable.<ref>Both his predecessor [https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/runciman/pfapp3.htm Peter Clay], and successor Keith Bristow, are given the rank of Assistant Chief Constable, while the NCIS Director General has rank Chief Constable.</ref>. He held the position until 2002, when he is succeed by [[Keith Bristow]].<ref>[https://www.cclsolutionsgroup.com/team-member/keith-bristow Keith Bristow, Chairman], ''CCL Solutions Group'', undated (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref> During this time he is one of the NCIS's senior managers, answering directly to the Director General [[John Abbott]].<br />
<br />
According to archives of the NCIS website, the UK Division 'targets UK serious and organised crime as it effects the UK' and included:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19991011135345/http://www.ncis.co.uk:80/web/Publications/uk_division.htm UK Division], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service], 1999 (archive.org grab of http://www.ncis.co.uk/web/Publications/uk_division.htm, made 11 October 1999)</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010408112149/http://www.ncis.co.uk/uk.html UK]], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service], 2001 (archive.org grab of http://www.ncis.co.uk/uk.html, made 8 April 2008)</ref> the NCIS regional offices in Midlands, North East, North West, Scotland, South East and South West and the Strategic and Specialist Intelligence Branch which was subdivided into:<br />
* Organised Crime Unit<br />
* Drugs Unit<br />
* Strategic Research & Development Unit<br />
* Specialist Crimes Unit (including Paedophile Section, Kidnap & Extortian, Counterfeit Section & Vehicle Crime)<br />
* Economic Unit<br />
* Football Unit<br />
<br />
During his time at the NCIS, it had responsibility for the [[Animal Rights National Index]] (a forerunner of another undercover policing unit, [[National Public Order Intelligence Unit]] and the [[National Domestic Extremism Database]]. It had wide ranging surveillance powers, including telephone and email interception and covert surveillance, though it is not known if it had its own undercover unit.<ref>Andrew Clennell, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/sep/28/ukcrime.immigrationpolicy1 Intelligence head to leave next year], ''The Guardian'', 28 September 2002 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19991109060813/http://www.ncis.co.uk/web/Publications/special_projects_branch.htm Special Projects Branch], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service]], 1999 (archive.org grab of http://www.ncis.co.uk/web/Publications/special_projects_branch.htm, made 9 October 1999)</ref><br />
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In April 2001 he gave evidence to the Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on the Proceeds of Crime Bill,<ref>[http://archive.niassembly.gov.uk/adhocs/proceeds_crime/minutes/010426.htm Minutes of Proceedings], ''Northern ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on Proceeds of Crime Bill'', 26 April 2001 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref> while in 2003 he appears to have had specific responsibility for the economic crime unit as the director of Specialist Intelligence.<ref>Police & Constabulary Almanac, ''R Maxwell & Co'', 2003.</ref> The NCIS website notes its responsibilities in 2003 as:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030706201210/http://ncis.co.uk/specialistintelligence.asp Specialist Intelligence Branch], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service'', 2003 (archive.org grab of http://ncis.co.uk/specialistintelligence.asp 6 July 2003).</ref><br />
* Economic Crime Branch<br />
* Specialist Intelligence Branch which included many of the same units as in previous years.<br />
* Special Projects Branch which:<br />
:: consists of three units: Operations Support, Special Liaison, and National Source Management, which support police and national and international intelligence agencies with specialist services in gathering, analysis and intelligence dissemination.<br />
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===Media appearance while with the NCIS===<br />
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Vince Harvey made a number of media appearances during his time as a Director of the NCIS:<br />
* June 1999: speaker at a national drugs conference in Blackpool.<ref>Jason Bennetto, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/drug-factories-become-britain-s-new-illegal-cottage-industry-1102957.html Drug factories become Britain's new illegal cottage industry], ''The Independent, 27 June 1999 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* December 1999: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/564476.stm a speaker at the launch of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency (including a photograph)].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/564476.stm Scotland 'leading drugs battle'], ''BBC News Online'', 14 December 1999 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* 2000: interviewed for a US tv programme 'Lords of the Mafia, Britain & Sicily', on the differences between European and American crime syndicates.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/title/lords-of-the-mafia-britain-sicily/oclc/414149283 Lords of the Mafia. Britain & Sicily.], ''WorldCat.org'', undated (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* November 2000: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1042788.stm quoted in and photograph to accompany a BBC News special investigation gangs operating in Essex].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1042788.stm Essex gangland booms]], ''BBC News Online'', 27 November 2000 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* November 2000: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1044604.stm quoted in BBC News Online in relation to investigation on organised criminal gangs operating in Essex], of whom he said:<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1044604.stm Looking for a quieter life], ''BBC News Online'', 28 November 2000 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: These are thoroughly unpleasant people who don't mind using any technique if it furthers their own cause.<br />
* May 2002: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1998515.stm BBC news story on mass arrest of 36 people suspected of downloading child pornography] as part of [[Operation Ore]]. Harvey is quoted as saying:<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1998515.stm Mass arrests over online child porn], ''BBC News Online'', 20 May 2002 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: Every image of a child being sexually abused is an image of a crime scene and each photograph is that of a victim. Using the sophisticated technology along with traditional detective and analytical work, we can now make sure there is no place for paedophiles operating online to hide.<br />
* July 2003: quoted as 'director of economic crime' at the NCIS in relation to a critical report that there was a 58,000 case backlog of on financial crime.<ref>Jill Treanor, [https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2003/jul/02/4 Money-laundering assault beefed up], ''The Guardian'', 2 July 2003 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* September 2003: quoted as head of NCIS Economic Crime Branch on an increase in disclosure on money laundering from Scottish solicitors.<ref>[https://www.lawscot.org.uk/members/journal/issues/vol-48-issue-09/praise-on-anti-money-laundering-efforts/ Praise on anti-money laundering efforts], ''Journal of the Law Society of Scotland'', 1 September 2003 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
[[File:Vinceharvey ncis.jpg|thumb|200px|Vince Harvey of NCIS as he appears in a BBC news special investigation on organised crime in Essex, November 2000]]<br />
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* 22 November 2017: directed that any application for anonymity from the MPS Legal Team by were to be made by 30 November, and for the MPS Designated Lawyer Team by 4 December 2017<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171122-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 November 2017 (accessed 26 November 2017).</ref><br />
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* 29 November 2017: Metropolitan Police make application to restrict real name only.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20171129-MPS_CL-HN354_application.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN354], '''Metropolitan Police Service'', 29 November 2017, published 9 July 2018).</ref><ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 15 Jan 2018: Mitting indicates he is minded to grant the restriction order over real name and that there was no application in relation to cover name which will be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr2.15Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180115-Nov-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press notice - ‘Minded-to’ anonymity: Special Demonstration Squad Officers (HN13, HN296, HN304, HN339, HN340, HN354, HN356/124, HN61, HN819, HN109, HN9, HN66)], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref> The Inquiry Chair also stated:<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018.</ref><br />
:: In the unlikely event that any member of the public can be prompted to give evidence about his deployment publication of his cover name would serve that purpose.' Publication of real name is not necessary to permit Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would give rise to interference with his article 8 rights to private and family life.<br />
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* 19 June 2018: cover name and target group released.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018"/><br />
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* 9 July 2018: provisional ruling to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref> Directed that any objections to this to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 30 July 2018: final ruling that HN354's real name will be restricted in the Inquiry.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 9 October 2018: Restriction order granted over disclosure of any information by the Inquiry which would lead to the identification of HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/><br />
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* 6 January 2021: "'Madeleine' applies to be designated as a core participant in Category [H]. She joined the Walthamstow branch of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mid-1970s. This branch of the SWP was infiltrated by HN354 ('Vince Miller') between the beginning of 1977 and September 1979". She says to have had an sexual relationship with him between 1978 and 1979, 'the last year of his deployment' which is of some significance to her. This ended with his sudden departure.<ref name="Madeline"/><br />
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* 30 March 2021 (revised 6 April 2021): Mitting issues a ruling that HN354's real name will be revoked in light of Madeleine's witness statement where she sets out the relationship with the undercover. There will be a delay in doing this because:<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210330-ruling-HN354_real_name.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 19], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 March 2021, revised 6 April 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: It is, however, imperative that the risk of a seriously adverse impact on his immediate family member is not run. Madeleine accepts that it should not be. For that reason, the Inquiry will not publish the real name of HN354 before the risk has passed; and it will not be revoked before he gives evidence. <br />
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* 21 September 2021: Mitting revoked the restriction order over HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/> The same day Harvey's witness statement is re-released containing the full real name, Vincent James Harvey.<ref name=harvey.1stWS.20Sept2021">Vincent Harvey, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf First Witness Statement of HN354 as supplemented], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', signed 18 November 2019, supplemented 10 March 2021; reissued by Undercover Policing Inquiry on 21 September 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref> Three photographs provided by Madeleine of Harvey while he was undercover were also released through the Inquiry website.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ HN 354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.uk'' (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Vincent_Harvey&diff=257674Vincent Harvey2021-09-22T17:36:30Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=Vincent James Harvey|Alias=Vince Miller, HN354|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Vince miller (headshot).jpg |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1976-1979|Targets=Socialist Workers Party}}<br />
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'''Vincent James Harvey''' is a former senior police officer who served as Director of the UK Division at the [[National Criminal Intelligence Service]] 1998 to 2002.<ref name="almanacs">Police & Constabulary Almanacs, ''R Maxwell & Co'', various years.</ref> Prior to this he had been a Special Branch officer including serving as an undercover in the [[Special Demonstration Squad]].<br />
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While with the SDS he used the cover name '''Vince Miller''' to infiltrate the Socialist Workers Party from 1976 to 1979.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing an update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> According to Sir John Mitting, Chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the officer's 'deployment appears to have been unremarkable, despite the fact that he has admitted four 'fleeting' sexual encounters with different females during his deployment - two of them with female members of the Walthamstow branch of the SWP. One of them was 'Madeleine', who was granted core participant status in the Undercover Policing Inquiry on 6 January 2021.<ref name="Madeline">[https://t.co/PQaopq9CVz?amp=1 Core participants Ruling 39, Recognised Legal Representatives Ruling 32, Cost of Legal Representation Awards Ruling 31 Application for a restriction order by ‘Madeleine'] ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 January 2021.</ref>.<br />
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For the purposes of the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] he was also referred to by the cipher '''HN354''' (for the N cipher system see [[N officers]]). The Inquiry had ruled his real name would be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
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Following a statement from Madeleine, Mitting decided to revoke the restriction order over the real name though not before both the undercover and Madeleine gave evidence.<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021"/> In April 2021 both gave live evidence to the Undercover Policing Inquiry. The restriction order over his real name was revoked in September 2021.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210920-order-revoking_HN354_anonymity.pdf Revocation of a restiction order under Sectoon 19 of the Inquiries Act 2005: HN354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 September 2021 (viewed 20 September 2021).</ref><br />
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'''+++++ Last Updated 22 September 2021 +++++'''<br />
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==As an SDS undercover officer==<br />
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A full profile of Harvey's time as an undercover police officer is being prepared.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf Witness statement of Vincent James Harvey] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ list of associated exhibits].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/evidence-hearings-t1-p2-day-14-am/ Transcript of Harvey's evidence to the Inquiry].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/UCPI0000034356.pdf Gist of Harvey's accounts of sexual relationships while undercover]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034313.pdf Witness statement of 'Madeleine']<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-ucpi-t1_p2-evidence_hearings-transcript.pdf Transcript of Madeleine's evidence to the Inquiry] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-index.pdf index of associated exhibits].<br />
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Photographs of Vincent Harvey, while undercover as 'Vince Miller', provided by Madeleine.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034311.pdf Photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034330.pdf First additional photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034331.pdf Second additional photograph]<br />
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==Post undercover career==<br />
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===Operation Pragada===<br />
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===National Criminal Intelligence Service===<br />
[[File: 564598 vinceharvey150.jpg|thumb|200px|Vince Harvey of the NCIS speaking at the launch of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency in December 1999]]<br />
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In 1998, Harvey is named Director of National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) as head of its UK Division, a title which later became UK Tactical Services Division. This appears to have been at rank of Assistant Chief Constable.<ref>Both his predecessor [https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/runciman/pfapp3.htm Peter Clay], and successor Keith Bristow, are given the rank of Assistant Chief Constable, while the NCIS Director General has rank Chief Constable.</ref>. He held the position until 2002, when he is succeed by [[Keith Bristow]].<ref>[https://www.cclsolutionsgroup.com/team-member/keith-bristow Keith Bristow, Chairman], ''CCL Solutions Group'', undated (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref> During this time he is one of the NCIS's senior managers, answering only to the Director General John Abbott.<br />
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According to archives of the NCIS website, the UK Division included:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19991011135345/http://www.ncis.co.uk:80/web/Publications/uk_division.htm UK Division], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service], 1999 (archive.org grab of http://www.ncis.co.uk/web/Publications/uk_division.htm, made 11 October 1999)</ref> the NCIS regional offices in Midlands, North East, North West, Scotland, South East and South West and the Strategic and Specialist Intelligence Branch which was subdivided into:<br />
* Organised Crime Unit<br />
* Drugs Unit<br />
* Strategic Research & Development Unit<br />
* Specialist Crimes Unit (including Paedophile Section, Kidnap & Extorian, Counterfeit Section & Vehicle Crime)<br />
* Economic Unit<br />
* Football Unit<br />
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During his time at the NCIS, it had responsibility for the [[Animal Rights National Index]] (a forerunner of another undercover policing unit, [[National Public Order Intelligene Unit]] and the [[National Domestic Extremism Database]]. It had wide ranging surveillance powers, including telephone and email interception and covert surveillance, though it is not known if it had its own undercover unit.<ref>Andrew Clennell, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/sep/28/ukcrime.immigrationpolicy1 Intelligence head to leave next year], ''The Guardian'', 28 September 2002 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19991109060813/http://www.ncis.co.uk/web/Publications/special_projects_branch.htm Special Projects Branch], ''National Criminal Intelligence Service]], 1999 (archive.org grab of http://www.ncis.co.uk/web/Publications/special_projects_branch.htm, made 9 October 1999)</ref><br />
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===Media appearance for NCIS===<br />
<br />
Vince Harvey made a number of media appearances during his time as a Director of the NCIS<br />
* December 1999: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/564476.stm Scotlanda speaker at the launch of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency (including a photograph)].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/564476.stm Scotland 'leading drugs battle'], ''BBC News Online'', 14 December 1999 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* November 2000: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1042788.stm quoted in and photograph to accompany a BBC News special investigation gangs operating in Essex].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1042788.stm Essex gangland booms]], ''BBC News Online'', 27 November 2000 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
* November 2000: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1044604.stm quoted in BBC News Online in relation to investigation on organised criminal gangs operating in Essex], of whom he said:<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1044604.stm Looking for a quieter life], ''BBC News Online'', 28 November 2000 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: These are thoroughly unpleasant people who don't mind using any technique if it furthers their own cause.<br />
* May 2002: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1998515.stm BBC news story on mass arrest of 36 people suspected of downloading child pornography] as part of [[Operation Ore]]. Harvey is quoted as saying:<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1998515.stm Mass arrests over online child porn], ''BBC News Online'', 20 May 2002 (accessed 22 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: Every image of a child being sexually abused is an image of a crime scene and each photograph is that of a victim. Using the sophisticated technology along with traditional detective and analytical work, we can now make sure there is no place for paedophiles operating online to hide.<br />
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==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
[[File:Vinceharvey ncis.jpg|thumb|200px|Vince Harvey of NCIS as he appears in a BBC news special investigation on organised crime in Essex, November 2000]]<br />
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* 22 November 2017: directed that any application for anonymity from the MPS Legal Team by were to be made by 30 November, and for the MPS Designated Lawyer Team by 4 December 2017<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171122-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 November 2017 (accessed 26 November 2017).</ref><br />
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* 29 November 2017: Metropolitan Police make application to restrict real name only.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20171129-MPS_CL-HN354_application.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN354], '''Metropolitan Police Service'', 29 November 2017, published 9 July 2018).</ref><ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 15 Jan 2018: Mitting indicates he is minded to grant the restriction order over real name and that there was no application in relation to cover name which will be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr2.15Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180115-Nov-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press notice - ‘Minded-to’ anonymity: Special Demonstration Squad Officers (HN13, HN296, HN304, HN339, HN340, HN354, HN356/124, HN61, HN819, HN109, HN9, HN66)], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref> The Inquiry Chair also stated:<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018.</ref><br />
:: In the unlikely event that any member of the public can be prompted to give evidence about his deployment publication of his cover name would serve that purpose.' Publication of real name is not necessary to permit Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would give rise to interference with his article 8 rights to private and family life.<br />
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* 19 June 2018: cover name and target group released.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018"/><br />
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* 9 July 2018: provisional ruling to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref> Directed that any objections to this to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 30 July 2018: final ruling that HN354's real name will be restricted in the Inquiry.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 9 October 2018: Restiction order granted over disclosure of any information by the Inquiry which would lead to the identification of HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/><br />
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* 6 January 2021: "'Madeleine' applies to be designated as a core participant in Category [H]. She joined the Walthamstow branch of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mid-1970s. This branch of the SWP was infiltrated by HN354 ('Vince Miller') between the beginning of 1977 and September 1979". She says to have had an sexual relationship with him between 1978 and 1979, 'the last year of his deployment' which is of some significance to her. This ended with his sudden departure.<ref name="Madeline"/><br />
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* 30 March 2021 (revised 6 April 2021): Mitting issues a ruling that HN354's real name will be revoked in light of Madeleine's witness statement where she sets out the relationship with the undercover. There will be a delay in doing this because:<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021">Sir John Mtting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210330-ruling-HN354_real_name.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 19], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 March 2021, revised 6 April 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: It is, however, imperative that the risk of a seriously adverse impact on his immediate family member is not run. Madeleine accepts that it should not be. For that reason, the Inquiry will not publish the real name of HN354 before the risk has passed; and it will not be revoked before he gives evidence. <br />
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* 21 September 2021: Mitting revoked the restriction order over HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/> The same day Harvey's witness statement is re-released containing the full real name, Vincent James Harvey.<ref name=harvey.1stWS.20Sept2021">Vincent Harvey, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf First Witness Statement of HN354 as supplemented], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', signed 18 November 2019, supplemented 10 March 2021; reissued by Undercover Policing Inquiry on 21 September 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref> Three photographs provided by Madeleine of Harvey while he was undercover were also released through the Inquiry website.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ HN 354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.uk'' (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=National_Domestic_Extremism_Unit:_officers&diff=257673National Domestic Extremism Unit: officers2021-09-22T17:35:30Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{Police_Unit_sidebar|Series=Undercover Police Units|Name=National Domestic Extremism Unit (NDEU)|Alias=National Coordinator for Domestic Extremism, National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit|Parents=[[Association of Chief Police Officers (Terrorism and Allied Matters)]], [[Counter Terrorism Command]]|SubUnits=[[National Public Order Intelligence Unit|NPOIU]], National Domestic Extremism Team, [[National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit|NETCU]], [[Confidential Intelligence Unit]]|Targets=[[Domestic Extremism]]|Dates=2004 to present}}<br />
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'''See main page [[National Domestic Extremism Unit]]'''<br />
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The national domestic extremism units are a group of police units that focus on ''[[Domestic Extremism|domestic extremism]]'', and which have gone through a [[National Domestic Extremism Unit: organisational history|series of reorganisations]]. They included the overseeing the controversial infiltration of protest groups by undercover officers such as [[Mark Kennedy]], [[Lynn Watson (alias)|Lynn Watson]] and [[Marco Jacobs (alias)|Marco Jacobs]]. This page lists the officers who have held leading roles within the units.<br />
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'''Other detailed pages on the domestic extremism units:'''<br />
:* [[National Domestic Extremism Unit: organisational history]]<br />
:* [[National Domestic Extremism Unit: activities]]<br />
:* [[Domestic Extremism]] (definition and history)<br />
:* [[National Domestic Extremism Database]]<br />
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==National Coordinators for Domestic Extremism==<br />
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The National Coordinator (for) Domestic Extremism (NCDE)<ref>There is no consistent title for this position, with various official documents using 'National Coordinator Domestic Extremism’, ‘National Coordinator - Domestic Extremism’, ‘National Coordinator of Domestic Extremism’, 'National Coordinator, Domestic Extremism' or 'National Coordinator for Domestic Extremism', and with or without a hyphen in Coordinator, and also National Domestic Extremism Coordinator. For convenience we have chosen to use 'National Coordinator for Domestic Extremism' or more generally NCDE.</ref> is a post created by the [[Association of Chief Police Officers]] in July 2004 in response to a number of successful animal rights campaigns. The post grew to eventually take over various related units such as the [[National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit]] (NETCU) and the [[National Public Order Intelligence Unit]] (NPOIU). When the individual units were reorganised and merged as the National Domestic Extremism Unit (NDEU) - later named the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU) - the title 'National Coordinator for Domestic Extremism' was used for the head of these units. <br />
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The first NCDE, Anton Setchell held the rank of Assistant Chief Constable; subsequent holders have been given the lower rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. The role remains in existence as of December 2014, but is currently vacant.<br />
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* ACC '''[[Anton Setchell]]''' was the National Coordinator Domestic Extremism with rank of Assistant Chief Comissioner, answering to ACPO from July 2004<ref name="somerset">[http://www.six.somerset.gov.uk/sixv3/do_download.asp?did=16137 Letter Bombs - Police Issue Warning], ACPO press release 7 February 2007, accessed 19 June 2014.</ref> to November 2010. Setchell was on secondment from [[Thames Valley Police]] where he had previously organized policing at the biotech lab being targeted by the SPEAK campaign.<ref name= "standard.1" >Lech Mintowt-Czyz, [http://www.standard.co.uk/news/police-chief-to-lead-war-on-animal-rights-terror-6980424.html Police chief to lead war on animal rights terror], ''London Evening Standard'', 29 July 2004, accessed 26 August 2014.</ref> He subsequently became head of Global Security for the infrastructure and services company Laing O’Rourke. <ref name="netcu.revisit"> Undercover Research Group, [http://www.corporatewatch.org/news/2014/aug/06/re-visiting-netcu-police-collaboration-industry Re-visiting NETCU - Police Collaboration with Industry], ''Corporate Watch'', 6 August 2014, accessed 31 August 2014.</ref><br />
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* DCS '''[[Adrian Tudway]]''' had served as deputy to Anton Setchell from January 2010; in November 2010<ref name="rwsY">[http://www.pressassociation.com/component/pafeeds/2010/11/23/police_on_tightrope_at_protests Police on 'tightrope' at protests], ''Press Association'', 23 November 2010, accessed from [http://archive.today/rwsY archive.today] 19 June 2014. Note, date on page refers to the date it was archived; actual date of article derived in this case from the page's URL</ref> he was appointed Setchell’s successor as National Coordinator Domestic Extremism though at the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. He would oversee the merger of the different units into the National Domestic Extremism Unit, remaining as its head until replaced by Greany.<ref name="guardian.2.09.2011">Vikram Dodd &amp; Matthew Taylor, [http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/sep/02/english-defence-league-muslims-police Muslims criticise Scotland Yard for telling them to engage with EDL], ''The Guardian'', 2 September 2011, accessed 31 August 2014.</ref> He has since been seconded to the Home Office.<ref>Adrian Tudway, [http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/adrian-tudway-fcmi/65/61/589 profile], ''LinkedIn.com'', accessed 19 May 2014.</ref><br />
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* DCS '''[[Christopher Greany]]''' replaced Adrian Tudway as head of the National Domestic Extremism Unit in March 2012.<ref name="herne.1">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-1---Covert-Identities.pdf Operation Herne: Report 1 - Use of Covert Identities], ''Derbyshire Constabulary'', July 2013.</ref> In 2010 he was the head of counter terrorism for City of London Police<ref name="guardian.2012.03.01">Rob Evans, [http://www.theguardian.com/uk/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2012/mar/01/new-spymaster-runs-undercover-operations], ''The Guardian'', 1 March 2012, accessed 19 June 2014.</ref> and in 2011 lead Operation Withern, which investigated crimes committed during the London Riots of 2011.<ref>Stephanie Darrall, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046401/UK-riots-Scotland-Yard-pledges-catch-EVERY-rioter-number-arrested-tops-3-000.html 'We will get you eventually': Scotland Yard pledge to catch EVERY rioter as number arrested tops 3,000], "Daily Mail", 7 October 2011, accessed 28 August 2014.</ref> DCS Greany oversees the transformation of the NDEU into the NDEDIU, remaining as head of the latter.<ref>[http://www.policingtoday.co.uk/npocc_appoint_new_head_25769816328.aspx NPoCC appoint new head], ''PolicingToday.co.uk'', 1 October 2014, accessed 10 January 2015.</ref>, being in place in July 2014.<ref>Karen Fox, [https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ndediu_staffing#incoming-549642 Response of Metropolitan Police Service to FOIA request of Mr. Mattsson (Ref: 2014060001937)], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 10 July 2014, accessed 28 August 2014.</ref> Though towards the end of September 2014 he left having being promoted to Commander heading up the National Police Coordination Centre.<ref>Chris Greany, [http://www.acpo.police.uk/ThePoliceChiefsBlog/CommanderChrisGreanyNewHeadofNPoCC23September2014.aspx Commander Chris Greany - New Head of NPoCC, 23 September 2014], Association of Chief Police Officers (blog), 23 September 2014, accessed 10 January 2014.</ref> The role of NCDE was still vacant and the position advertised for in December 2014.<ref name="cinzano-foia.1">Karen Fox, [https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/current_postholder_office_of_ncd?nocache=incoming-598619#incoming-598619 'Current postholder, office of NCDE' - response to FOIA request of David Cinzano], Metropolitan Police Service, 22 December 2014, accessed 10 January 2015.</ref><br />
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* ACC [[Ronnie Liddle]], was ACPO ACC for Counter Terrorism in the period December 2012 – February 2014. Based at the Metropolitan Police he was co-ordinator of 'UK Counter Terrorism functions and operations', part of which remit he had 'Responsibility for National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit, including business engagement'.<ref>[https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ronnie-liddle/99/40a/9aa Ronnie Liddle - Profile], ''LinkedIn.com'', undated, accessed 10 January 2015.</ref> However, it is noted elsewhere that during this period he is actually seconded to the Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee within ACPO,<ref>[http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/download/meetings/id/39746/item_no_8_5-unaudited_financial_statements_2012-13-lothian_and_borders_police_board Unaudited Financial Statements 2012/13], Lothian and Borders Police Board (presented to Edinburgh City Council on 27 June 2013), pages 91 & 92, accessed 10 January 2015.</ref> which indicates that ACPO is still overseeing the NDEDIU despite the transfer to the Metropolitan Police.<br />
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==Other Senior Officers==<br />
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* '''[[Melvyn Young]]''': Deputy National Coordinator Domestic Extremism (NCDE) September 2004 to September 2009. Prior to this he had been with specialist operations & major crime at Thames Valley Police. From October 2009 he is Global Head Extremism and Risk for Novartis, becoming their Deputy Head for Global Security in January 2012, remaining there until June 2013.<ref>[https://ch.linkedin.com/pub/melvyn-young/71/239/107 Melvyn Young - Profile], ''LinkedIn.com'', undated, accessed 14 January 2015.</ref> It is of note that another NDET officer, [[Jim Sheldrake]], also joined Novartis' Issues and Risk Communications Team in April 2010, one month after the NDEU set up a sting with the complicity of Novartis that resulted in the jailing of SHAC activist Debbie Vincent, whereby a member of the unit, 'James Adams' posed as an executive of Novartis, meeting Ms Vincent in the company of Novartis' Head of Global Security, Andrew Jackson.<ref name="netcu.revisit"/> <br />
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* '''[[Marc Vincent]]''': Deputy Head of NDEU October 2008 to September 2012; since October 2014 he has been an Assistant Inspector with [[HM Inspectorate of Constabulary]]. From January 2003 to January 2007, Head of Special Branch for [[Lancashire Police]], before being seconded to NDEU. He subsequently returned to Lancashire Constabulary as Head of Covert Policing and Authorising officer for undercover work. For 3 months in 2006 had been part of national review of police forces planning, preparation and readiness to deal with terrorism and domestic extremism. In 2008-2012 he was involved in rolling out the PREVENT programme on a national level, and has been lead officer on piloting the CHANNEL Project for the Home Office.<ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/marc-vincent/65/2a0/239?trk=pub-pbmap Marc Vincent - Profile], ''LinkedIn.com'', undated, accessed 14 November 2015.</ref><br />
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* Det. Supt. '''[[Robin Bhairam]]''', Deputy National Coordinator Domestic Extremism January 2013 to February 2015. He had previously served under Greany when he was Senior Investigating Officer for Operation Withern. In 2015 he becomes a senior lecturer in the John Grieve Centre at London Metropolitan University, were he worked along side spycop [[Bob Lambert]].<ref name="linkedin">Robin Bhairam, [https://uk.linkedin.com/in/dr-robin-bhairam-73999bb9 Profile], ''LinkedIn.com'', undated (accessed 27 March 2016)</ref><br />
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* Det. Supt. '''[[George_Turner_(Police_Officer)|George Turner]]''': from June 2005 to August 2008, Head of Homicide, Kidnap, Complex and Sensitive Investigations for Thames Valley Police, where on behalf of the NCDE he investigated the letter-bomber Miles Cooper, and the animal rights campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences. He also "developed, implemented and led an intelligence and investigation response that successfully countered Animal Rights Extremism related to Oxford University (The SPEAK campaign)". August 2008 he was promoted as Detective Chief Superintendent, as Head of South East Counter Terrorism Unit remaining there until October 2013. Since Jan 2014 he has been Head of Asset Protection for British Airways.<ref>[https://uk.linkedin.com/in/georgeturnercmgrfcmi George Turner CMgr, FCMI - Profile], ''LinkedIn.com'', undated, accessed 14 January 2015.</ref><br />
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* Supt. '''[[Steven Pearl]]''': a Cambridgeshire officer involved in the policing of protest around [[Huntingdon Life Sciences]]. In March 2004 he established the National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit, based in Huntingdon. He remained as its head until forced to retire in 2010. Has since become a director of [[Agenda Risk Management]], which vets applicants for jobs in the animal research industry.<br />
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* Detective Chief Inspector '''[[Richard May]]''': described in newspaper articles as [[Mark Kennedy]]'s boss while at the NPOIU. He is noted for confirming to French police in that the NDEU had intelligence related to the ''Tarnac'' case, that is thought to have come from Kennedy's attendance at a 2008 meeting of European anarchists in France. However, he also told police that the 'source of this intelligence will never be revealed and no formal statements will be provided'.<ref>Henry Samuel, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9665106/Scotland-Yard-eco-spy-Mark-Kennedy-dragged-into-French-anarchist-plot.html Scotland Yard 'eco-spy' Mark Kennedy dragged into French anarchist plot], ''The Telegraph'', 8 November 2012 (accessed 24 September 2015).</ref><ref>Angelique Chrisafis, Paul Lewis &amp; Rob Evans, [http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/nov/08/mark-kennedy-accused-fantasist-french Police spy Mark Kennedy accused of fake claims in French case], ''The Guardian'', 8 November 2012 (accessed 24 September 2015).</ref><br />
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* Detective Chief Inspector '''[[Andrew Robbins|Andy Robbins]]''', head of the National Domestic Extremism Team, February 2009 to January 2013. He oversaw Operation Achillies, the arrest and prosecution phase of the investigation into Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. A Kent police officer for 34 years, he retired in 2013 to establish his own private security consultancy, Prism Specialist Services Ltd.<ref name="linkedin.1">Andrew Robbins, [https://uk.linkedin.com/in/andrew-robbins-35075366 Profile], ''LinkedIn.com'', undated (accessed 5 November 2016).</ref><br />
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* '''John Donovan'''. According to his biography for the London Policing College:<ref>[https://www.thelondonpolicingcollege.org.uk/members/john-donovan/ John Donovan MSt (Intelligence and Counter Terrorism)], ''London Policing College'', undated (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
::John has 31 years’ experience as Police Officer up to the rank of Chief Inspector rank. He has worked within the Metropolitan Police and the National Criminal Intelligence Service, The National Domestic Extremism Team, the Association of Chief Police Terrorism Committee (ACPO TAM) and HM Customs and Excise. He worked on UK Investigatory Powers legislation and exercised editorial control of policies for conducting covert and technical surveillance. He designed and delivered training on the use of special investigatory techniques UK wide. John led a Joint Investigatory Team coordinated by Europol against and active domestic terrorist conspiracy across 6 EU nations and managed the intelligence flow between the JIT and the FBI.<br />
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==Other Undercover Research sources==<br />
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* [[National Public Order Intelligence Unit]]<br />
* [[National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit]]<br />
* [[Association of Chief Police Officers (Terrorism and Allied Matters)]]<br />
* [[Special Demonstration Squad]]<br />
* [[Mark Kennedy]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=File:Vinceharvey_ncis.jpg&diff=257672File:Vinceharvey ncis.jpg2021-09-22T17:24:01Z<p>Peter Salmon: Vincent Harvey of National Criminal Intelligence Service, appearing in BBC special investigation on organised crime in Essex, November 2000.</p>
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Vincent Harvey of National Criminal Intelligence Service, appearing in BBC special investigation on organised crime in Essex, November 2000.</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=File:564598_vinceharvey150.jpg&diff=257671File:564598 vinceharvey150.jpg2021-09-22T17:08:56Z<p>Peter Salmon: Vincent Harvey of the National Criminal Intelligence Service, speaking at the launch of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency in December 1999. (Via BBC)</p>
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Vincent Harvey of the National Criminal Intelligence Service, speaking at the launch of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency in December 1999. (Via BBC)</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Vincent_Harvey&diff=257670Vincent Harvey2021-09-22T16:03:19Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=Vincent James Harvey|Alias=Vince Miller, HN354|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Vince miller (headshot).jpg |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1976-1979|Targets=Socialist Workers Party}}<br />
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'''Vincent James Harvey''' is a former senior police officer who served as Director of the UK Division at the [[National Criminal Intelligence Service]] 1998 to 2002.<ref name="almanacs">Police & Constabulary Almanacs, ''R Maxwell & Co'', various years.</ref> Prior to this he had been a Special Branch officer including serving as an undercover in the [[Special Demonstration Squad]].<br />
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While with the SDS he used the cover name '''Vince Miller''' to infiltrate the Socialist Workers Party from 1976 to 1979.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing an update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> According to Sir John Mitting, Chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the officer's 'deployment appears to have been unremarkable, despite the fact that he has admitted four 'fleeting' sexual encounters with different females during his deployment - two of them with female members of the Walthamstow branch of the SWP. One of them was 'Madeleine', who was granted core participant status in the Undercover Policing Inquiry on 6 January 2021.<ref name="Madeline">[https://t.co/PQaopq9CVz?amp=1 Core participants Ruling 39, Recognised Legal Representatives Ruling 32, Cost of Legal Representation Awards Ruling 31 Application for a restriction order by ‘Madeleine'] ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 January 2021.</ref>.<br />
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For the purposes of the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] he was also referred to by the cipher '''HN354''' (for the N cipher system see [[N officers]]). The Inquiry had ruled his real name would be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
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Following a statement from Madeleine, Mitting decided to revoke the restriction order over the real name though not before both the undercover and Madeleine gave evidence.<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021"/> In April 2021 both gave live evidence to the Undercover Policing Inquiry. The restriction order over his real name was revoked in September 2021.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210920-order-revoking_HN354_anonymity.pdf Revocation of a restiction order under Sectoon 19 of the Inquiries Act 2005: HN354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 September 2021 (viewed 20 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==As an SDS undercover officer==<br />
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A full profile of Harvey's time as an undercover police officer is being prepared.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf Witness statement of Vincent James Harvey] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ list of associated exhibits].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/evidence-hearings-t1-p2-day-14-am/ Transcript of Harvey's evidence to the Inquiry].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/UCPI0000034356.pdf Gist of Harvey's accounts of sexual relationships while undercover]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034313.pdf Witness statement of 'Madeleine']<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-ucpi-t1_p2-evidence_hearings-transcript.pdf Transcript of Madeleine's evidence to the Inquiry] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-index.pdf index of associated exhibits].<br />
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Photographs of Vincent Harvey, while undercover as 'Vince Miller', provided by Madeleine.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034311.pdf Photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034330.pdf First additional photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034331.pdf Second additional photograph]<br />
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==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
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* 22 November 2017: directed that any application for anonymity from the MPS Legal Team by were to be made by 30 November, and for the MPS Designated Lawyer Team by 4 December 2017<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171122-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 November 2017 (accessed 26 November 2017).</ref><br />
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* 29 November 2017: Metropolitan Police make application to restrict real name only.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20171129-MPS_CL-HN354_application.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN354], '''Metropolitan Police Service'', 29 November 2017, published 9 July 2018).</ref><ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 15 Jan 2018: Mitting indicates he is minded to grant the restriction order over real name and that there was no application in relation to cover name which will be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr2.15Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180115-Nov-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press notice - ‘Minded-to’ anonymity: Special Demonstration Squad Officers (HN13, HN296, HN304, HN339, HN340, HN354, HN356/124, HN61, HN819, HN109, HN9, HN66)], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref> The Inquiry Chair also stated:<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018.</ref><br />
:: In the unlikely event that any member of the public can be prompted to give evidence about his deployment publication of his cover name would serve that purpose.' Publication of real name is not necessary to permit Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would give rise to interference with his article 8 rights to private and family life.<br />
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* 19 June 2018: cover name and target group released.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018"/><br />
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* 9 July 2018: provisional ruling to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref> Directed that any objections to this to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 30 July 2018: final ruling that HN354's real name will be restricted in the Inquiry.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 9 October 2018: Restiction order granted over disclosure of any information by the Inquiry which would lead to the identification of HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/><br />
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* 6 January 2021: "'Madeleine' applies to be designated as a core participant in Category [H]. She joined the Walthamstow branch of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mid-1970s. This branch of the SWP was infiltrated by HN354 ('Vince Miller') between the beginning of 1977 and September 1979". She says to have had an sexual relationship with him between 1978 and 1979, 'the last year of his deployment' which is of some significance to her. This ended with his sudden departure.<ref name="Madeline"/><br />
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* 30 March 2021 (revised 6 April 2021): Mitting issues a ruling that HN354's real name will be revoked in light of Madeleine's witness statement where she sets out the relationship with the undercover. There will be a delay in doing this because:<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021">Sir John Mtting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210330-ruling-HN354_real_name.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 19], ''Undercover Polcing Inquiry'', 30 March 2021, revised 6 April 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: It is, however, imperative that the risk of a seriously adverse impact on his immediate family member is not run. Madeleine accepts that it should not be. For that reason, the Inquiry will not publish the real name of HN354 before the risk has passed; and it will not be revoked before he gives evidence. <br />
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* 21 September 2021: Mitting revoked the restriction order over HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/> The same day Harvey's witness statement is re-released containing the full real name, Vincent James Harvey.<ref name=harvey.1stWS.20Sept2021">Vincent Harvey, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf First Witness Statement of HN354 as supplemented], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', signed 18 November 2019, supplemented 10 March 2021; reissued by Undercover Policing Inquiry on 21 September 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref> Three photographs provided by Madeleine of Harvey while he was undercover were also released through the Inquiry website.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ HN 354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.uk'' (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=File:Vince_Miller_undercover_late_1970s_image3.jpg&diff=257667File:Vince Miller undercover late 1970s image3.jpg2021-09-22T15:49:46Z<p>Peter Salmon: Vincent Harvey as undercover Vince Miller while infiltrating the Socialist Workers Party in the late 1970s. Image via 'Madeleine'.</p>
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Vincent Harvey as undercover Vince Miller while infiltrating the Socialist Workers Party in the late 1970s. Image via 'Madeleine'.</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=File:Vince_Miller_undercover_late_1970s_image2.jpg&diff=257666File:Vince Miller undercover late 1970s image2.jpg2021-09-22T15:46:20Z<p>Peter Salmon: Vincent Harvey as undercover Vince Miller while infiltrating the Socialist Workers Party in the late 1970s. Image via 'Madeleine'.</p>
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Vincent Harvey as undercover Vince Miller while infiltrating the Socialist Workers Party in the late 1970s. Image via 'Madeleine'.</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=File:Vince_Miller_undercover_late_1970s.jpg&diff=257665File:Vince Miller undercover late 1970s.jpg2021-09-22T15:36:16Z<p>Peter Salmon: Vincent Harvey as undercover Vince Miller while infiltrating the Socialist Workers Party in the late 1970s. Image via 'Madeleine'.</p>
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Vincent Harvey as undercover Vince Miller while infiltrating the Socialist Workers Party in the late 1970s. Image via 'Madeleine'.</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=File:Vince_miller_(headshot).jpg&diff=257664File:Vince miller (headshot).jpg2021-09-22T15:34:07Z<p>Peter Salmon: Headshot of Vincent Harvey as SDS undercover Vince Miller in 1970s.</p>
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Headshot of Vincent Harvey as SDS undercover Vince Miller in 1970s.</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Vincent_Harvey&diff=257663Vincent Harvey2021-09-22T10:03:51Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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'''Vincent James Harvey''' is a former senior police officer who served as Director of the UK Division at the [[National Criminal Intelligence Service]] 1998 to 2002.<ref name="almanacs">Police & Constabulary Almanacs, ''R Maxwell & Co'', various years.</ref> Prior to this he had been a Special Branch officer including serving as an undercover in the [[Special Demonstration Squad]].<br />
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While with the SDS he used the cover name '''Vince Miller''' to infiltrate the Socialist Workers Party from 1976 to 1979.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing an update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> According to Sir John Mitting, Chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the officer's 'deployment appears to have been unremarkable, despite the fact that he has admitted four 'fleeting' sexual encounters with different females during his deployment - two of them with female members of the Walthamstow branch of the SWP. One of them was 'Madeleine', who was granted core participant status in the Undercover Policing Inquiry on 6 January 2021.<ref name="Madeline">[https://t.co/PQaopq9CVz?amp=1 Core participants Ruling 39, Recognised Legal Representatives Ruling 32, Cost of Legal Representation Awards Ruling 31 Application for a restriction order by ‘Madeleine'] ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 January 2021.</ref>.<br />
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For the purposes of the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] he was also referred to by the cipher '''HN354''' (for the N cipher system see [[N officers]]). The Inquiry had ruled his real name would be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
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Following a statement from Madeleine, Mitting decided to revoke the restriction order over the real name though not before both the undercover and Madeleine gave evidence.<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021"/> In April 2021 both gave live evidence to the Undercover Policing Inquiry. The restriction order over his real name was revoked in September 2021.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210920-order-revoking_HN354_anonymity.pdf Revocation of a restiction order under Sectoon 19 of the Inquiries Act 2005: HN354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 September 2021 (viewed 20 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==As an SDS undercover officer==<br />
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A full profile of Harvey's time as an undercover police officer is being prepared.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf Witness statement of Vincent James Harvey] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ list of associated exhibits].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/evidence-hearings-t1-p2-day-14-am/ Transcript of Harvey's evidence to the Inquiry].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/UCPI0000034356.pdf Gist of Harvey's accounts of sexual relationships while undercover]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034313.pdf Witness statement of 'Madeleine']<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-ucpi-t1_p2-evidence_hearings-transcript.pdf Transcript of Madeleine's evidence to the Inquiry] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-index.pdf index of associated exhibits].<br />
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Photographs of Vincent Harvey, while undercover as 'Vince Miller', provided by Madeleine.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034311.pdf Photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034330.pdf First additional photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034331.pdf Second additional photograph]<br />
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==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
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* 22 November 2017: directed that any application for anonymity from the MPS Legal Team by were to be made by 30 November, and for the MPS Designated Lawyer Team by 4 December 2017<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171122-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 November 2017 (accessed 26 November 2017).</ref><br />
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* 29 November 2017: Metropolitan Police make application to restrict real name only.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20171129-MPS_CL-HN354_application.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN354], '''Metropolitan Police Service'', 29 November 2017, published 9 July 2018).</ref><ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 15 Jan 2018: Mitting indicates he is minded to grant the restriction order over real name and that there was no application in relation to cover name which will be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr2.15Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180115-Nov-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press notice - ‘Minded-to’ anonymity: Special Demonstration Squad Officers (HN13, HN296, HN304, HN339, HN340, HN354, HN356/124, HN61, HN819, HN109, HN9, HN66)], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref> The Inquiry Chair also stated:<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018.</ref><br />
:: In the unlikely event that any member of the public can be prompted to give evidence about his deployment publication of his cover name would serve that purpose.' Publication of real name is not necessary to permit Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would give rise to interference with his article 8 rights to private and family life.<br />
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* 19 June 2018: cover name and target group released.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018"/><br />
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* 9 July 2018: provisional ruling to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref> Directed that any objections to this to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 30 July 2018: final ruling that HN354's real name will be restricted in the Inquiry.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 9 October 2018: Restiction order granted over disclosure of any information by the Inquiry which would lead to the identification of HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/><br />
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* 6 January 2021: "'Madeleine' applies to be designated as a core participant in Category [H]. She joined the Walthamstow branch of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mid-1970s. This branch of the SWP was infiltrated by HN354 ('Vince Miller') between the beginning of 1977 and September 1979". She says to have had an sexual relationship with him between 1978 and 1979, 'the last year of his deployment' which is of some significance to her. This ended with his sudden departure.<ref name="Madeline"/><br />
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* 30 March 2021 (revised 6 April 2021): Mitting issues a ruling that HN354's real name will be revoked in light of Madeleine's witness statement where she sets out the relationship with the undercover. There will be a delay in doing this because:<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021">Sir John Mtting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210330-ruling-HN354_real_name.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 19], ''Undercover Polcing Inquiry'', 30 March 2021, revised 6 April 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: It is, however, imperative that the risk of a seriously adverse impact on his immediate family member is not run. Madeleine accepts that it should not be. For that reason, the Inquiry will not publish the real name of HN354 before the risk has passed; and it will not be revoked before he gives evidence. <br />
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* 21 September 2021: Mitting revoked the restriction order over HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/> The same day Harvey's witness statement is re-released containing the full real name, Vincent James Harvey.<ref name=harvey.1stWS.20Sept2021">Vincent Harvey, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf First Witness Statement of HN354 as supplemented], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', signed 18 November 2019, supplemented 10 March 2021; reissued by Undercover Policing Inquiry on 21 September 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref> Three photographs provided by Madeleine of Harvey while he was undercover were also released through the Inquiry website.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ HN 354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.uk'' (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Vince_Miller_(alias)&diff=257662Vince Miller (alias)2021-09-22T09:48:29Z<p>Peter Salmon: Redirected page to Vincent Harvey</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Vincent_Harvey]]</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Vincent_Harvey&diff=257661Vincent Harvey2021-09-22T09:48:01Z<p>Peter Salmon: Created page with "{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=Vincent James Harvey|Alias=Vince Miller, HN354|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png |Unit=Special Demonstration..."</p>
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<div>{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=Vincent James Harvey|Alias=Vince Miller, HN354|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1976-1979|Targets=Socialist Workers Party}}<br />
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'''Vincent James Harvey''' is a former senior police officer who served as Director of UK Resources at the [[National Criminal Intelligence Service]] 1998 to 2002.<ref name="almanacs">Police & Constabulary Almanacs, ''R Maxwell & Co'', various years.</ref> Prior to this he had been a Special Branch officer including serving as an undercover in the [[Special Demonstration Squad]].<br />
<br />
While with the SDS he used the cover name '''Vince Miller''' to infiltrate the Socialist Workers Party from 1976 to 1979.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing an update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> According to Sir John Mitting, Chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the officer's 'deployment appears to have been unremarkable, despite the fact that he has admitted four 'fleeting' sexual encounters with different females during his deployment - two of them with female members of the Walthamstow branch of the SWP. One of them was 'Madeleine', who was granted core participant status in the Undercover Policing Inquiry on 6 January 2021.<ref name="Madeline">[https://t.co/PQaopq9CVz?amp=1 Core participants Ruling 39, Recognised Legal Representatives Ruling 32, Cost of Legal Representation Awards Ruling 31 Application for a restriction order by ‘Madeleine'] ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 January 2021.</ref>.<br />
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For the purposes of the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] he was also referred to by the cipher '''HN354''' (for the N cipher system see [[N officers]]). The Inquiry had ruled his real name would be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
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Following a statement from Madeleine, Mitting decided to revoke the restriction order over the real name though not before both the undercover and Madeleine gave evidence.<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021"/> In April 2021 both gave live evidence to the Undercover Policing Inquiry. The restriction order over his real name was revoked in September 2021.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210920-order-revoking_HN354_anonymity.pdf Revocation of a restiction order under Sectoon 19 of the Inquiries Act 2005: HN354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 September 2021 (viewed 20 September 2021).</ref><br />
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'''+++++ Last Updated 22 September 2021 +++++'''<br />
<br />
==As an SDS undercover officer==<br />
<br />
A full profile of Harvey's time as an undercover police officer is being prepared.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf Witness statement of Vincent James Harvey] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ list of associated exhibits].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/evidence-hearings-t1-p2-day-14-am/ Transcript of Harvey's evidence to the Inquiry].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/UCPI0000034356.pdf Gist of Harvey's accounts of sexual relationships while undercover]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034313.pdf Witness statement of 'Madeleine']<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-ucpi-t1_p2-evidence_hearings-transcript.pdf Transcript of Madeleine's evidence to the Inquiry] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-index.pdf index of associated exhibits].<br />
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Photographs of Vincent Harvey, while undercover as 'Vince Miller', provided by Madeleine.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034311.pdf Photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034330.pdf First additional photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034331.pdf Second additional photograph]<br />
<br />
==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
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* 22 November 2017: directed that any application for anonymity from the MPS Legal Team by were to be made by 30 November, and for the MPS Designated Lawyer Team by 4 December 2017<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171122-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 November 2017 (accessed 26 November 2017).</ref><br />
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* 29 November 2017: Metropolitan Police make application to restrict real name only.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20171129-MPS_CL-HN354_application.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN354], '''Metropolitan Police Service'', 29 November 2017, published 9 July 2018).</ref><ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 15 Jan 2018: Mitting indicates he is minded to grant the restriction order over real name and that there was no application in relation to cover name which will be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr2.15Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180115-Nov-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press notice - ‘Minded-to’ anonymity: Special Demonstration Squad Officers (HN13, HN296, HN304, HN339, HN340, HN354, HN356/124, HN61, HN819, HN109, HN9, HN66)], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref> The Inquiry Chair also stated:<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018.</ref><br />
:: In the unlikely event that any member of the public can be prompted to give evidence about his deployment publication of his cover name would serve that purpose.' Publication of real name is not necessary to permit Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would give rise to interference with his article 8 rights to private and family life.<br />
<br />
* 19 June 2018: cover name and target group released.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018"/><br />
<br />
* 9 July 2018: provisional ruling to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref> Directed that any objections to this to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 30 July 2018: final ruling that HN354's real name will be restricted in the Inquiry.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 9 October 2018: Restiction order granted over disclosure of any information by the Inquiry which would lead to the identification of HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/><br />
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* 6 January 2021: "'Madeleine' applies to be designated as a core participant in Category [H]. She joined the Walthamstow branch of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mid-1970s. This branch of the SWP was infiltrated by HN354 ('Vince Miller') between the beginning of 1977 and September 1979". She says to have had an sexual relationship with him between 1978 and 1979, 'the last year of his deployment' which is of some significance to her. This ended with his sudden departure.<ref name="Madeline"/><br />
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* 30 March 2021 (revised 6 April 2021): Mitting issues a ruling that HN354's real name will be revoked in light of Madeleine's witness statement where she sets out the relationship with the undercover. There will be a delay in doing this because:<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021">Sir John Mtting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210330-ruling-HN354_real_name.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 19], ''Undercover Polcing Inquiry'', 30 March 2021, revised 6 April 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: It is, however, imperative that the risk of a seriously adverse impact on his immediate family member is not run. Madeleine accepts that it should not be. For that reason, the Inquiry will not publish the real name of HN354 before the risk has passed; and it will not be revoked before he gives evidence. <br />
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* 21 September 2021: Mitting revoked the restriction order over HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/> The same day Harvey's witness statement is re-released containing the full real name, Vincent James Harvey.<ref name=harvey.1stWS.20Sept2021">Vincent Harvey, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf First Witness Statement of HN354 as supplemented], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', signed 18 November 2019, supplemented 10 March 2021; reissued by Undercover Policing Inquiry on 21 September 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref> Three photographs provided by Madeleine of Harvey while he was undercover were also released through the Inquiry website.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ HN 354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.uk'' (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Vince_Miller_(alias)&diff=257660Vince Miller (alias)2021-09-22T09:47:16Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=Vincent James Harvey|Alias=Vince Miller, HN354|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1976-1979|Targets=Socialist Workers Party}}<br />
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'''Vincent James Harvey''' is a former senior police officer who served as Director of UK Resources at the [[National Criminal Intelligence Service]] 1998 to 2002.<ref name="almanacs">Police & Constabulary Almanacs, ''R Maxwell & Co'', various years.</ref> Prior to this he had been a Special Branch officer including serving as an undercover in the [[Special Demonstration Squad]].<br />
<br />
While with the SDS he used the cover name '''Vince Miller''' to infiltrate the Socialist Workers Party from 1976 to 1979.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing an update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> According to Sir John Mitting, Chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the officer's 'deployment appears to have been unremarkable, despite the fact that he has admitted four 'fleeting' sexual encounters with different females during his deployment - two of them with female members of the Walthamstow branch of the SWP. One of them was 'Madeleine', who was granted core participant status in the Undercover Policing Inquiry on 6 January 2021.<ref name="Madeline">[https://t.co/PQaopq9CVz?amp=1 Core participants Ruling 39, Recognised Legal Representatives Ruling 32, Cost of Legal Representation Awards Ruling 31 Application for a restriction order by ‘Madeleine'] ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 January 2021.</ref>.<br />
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For the purposes of the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] he was also referred to by the cipher '''HN354''' (for the N cipher system see [[N officers]]). The Inquiry had ruled his real name would be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Following a statement from Madeleine, Mitting decided to revoke the restriction order over the real name though not before both the undercover and Madeleine gave evidence.<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021"/> In April 2021 both gave live evidence to the Undercover Policing Inquiry. The restriction order over his real name was revoked in September 2021.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210920-order-revoking_HN354_anonymity.pdf Revocation of a restiction order under Sectoon 19 of the Inquiries Act 2005: HN354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 September 2021 (viewed 20 September 2021).</ref><br />
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'''+++++ Last Updated 22 September 2021 +++++'''<br />
<br />
==As an SDS undercover officer==<br />
<br />
A full profile of Harvey's time as an undercover police officer is being prepared.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf Witness statement of Vincent James Harvey] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ list of associated exhibits].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/evidence-hearings-t1-p2-day-14-am/ Transcript of Harvey's evidence to the Inquiry].<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/UCPI0000034356.pdf Gist of Harvey's accounts of sexual relationships while undercover]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034313.pdf Witness statement of 'Madeleine']<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-ucpi-t1_p2-evidence_hearings-transcript.pdf Transcript of Madeleine's evidence to the Inquiry] with [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210510-index.pdf index of associated exhibits].<br />
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Photographs of Vincent Harvey, while undercover as 'Vince Miller', provided by Madeleine.<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034311.pdf Photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034330.pdf First additional photograph]<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034331.pdf Second additional photograph]<br />
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==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
<br />
* 22 November 2017: directed that any application for anonymity from the MPS Legal Team by were to be made by 30 November, and for the MPS Designated Lawyer Team by 4 December 2017<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171122-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 November 2017 (accessed 26 November 2017).</ref><br />
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* 29 November 2017: Metropolitan Police make application to restrict real name only.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20171129-MPS_CL-HN354_application.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN354], '''Metropolitan Police Service'', 29 November 2017, published 9 July 2018).</ref><ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 15 Jan 2018: Mitting indicates he is minded to grant the restriction order over real name and that there was no application in relation to cover name which will be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr2.15Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180115-Nov-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press notice - ‘Minded-to’ anonymity: Special Demonstration Squad Officers (HN13, HN296, HN304, HN339, HN340, HN354, HN356/124, HN61, HN819, HN109, HN9, HN66)], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref> The Inquiry Chair also stated:<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018.</ref><br />
:: In the unlikely event that any member of the public can be prompted to give evidence about his deployment publication of his cover name would serve that purpose.' Publication of real name is not necessary to permit Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would give rise to interference with his article 8 rights to private and family life.<br />
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* 19 June 2018: cover name and target group released.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018"/><br />
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* 9 July 2018: provisional ruling to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref> Directed that any objections to this to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 30 July 2018: final ruling that HN354's real name will be restricted in the Inquiry.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 9 October 2018: Restiction order granted over disclosure of any information by the Inquiry which would lead to the identification of HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/><br />
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* 6 January 2021: "'Madeleine' applies to be designated as a core participant in Category [H]. She joined the Walthamstow branch of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mid-1970s. This branch of the SWP was infiltrated by HN354 ('Vince Miller') between the beginning of 1977 and September 1979". She says to have had an sexual relationship with him between 1978 and 1979, 'the last year of his deployment' which is of some significance to her. This ended with his sudden departure.<ref name="Madeline"/><br />
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* 30 March 2021 (revised 6 April 2021): Mitting issues a ruling that HN354's real name will be revoked in light of Madeleine's witness statement where she sets out the relationship with the undercover. There will be a delay in doing this because:<ref name="mitting.ruling19.30Mar2021">Sir John Mtting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210330-ruling-HN354_real_name.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 19], ''Undercover Polcing Inquiry'', 30 March 2021, revised 6 April 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
:: It is, however, imperative that the risk of a seriously adverse impact on his immediate family member is not run. Madeleine accepts that it should not be. For that reason, the Inquiry will not publish the real name of HN354 before the risk has passed; and it will not be revoked before he gives evidence. <br />
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* 21 September 2021: Mitting revoked the restriction order over HN354's real name.<ref name="hn354.ro-revoked.20Sept2021"/> The same day Harvey's witness statement is re-released containing the full real name, Vincent James Harvey.<ref name=harvey.1stWS.20Sept2021">Vincent Harvey, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MPS-0747657.pdf First Witness Statement of HN354 as supplemented], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', signed 18 November 2019, supplemented 10 March 2021; reissued by Undercover Policing Inquiry on 21 September 2021 (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref> Three photographs provided by Madeleine of Harvey while he was undercover were also released through the Inquiry website.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals/hn-354/ HN 354], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.uk'' (accessed 21 September 2021).</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=N_officers_1&diff=257642N officers 12021-08-31T16:02:40Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=N Officers list|Description=A list of N &amp; HN cyphers used to designate individual officers in the Inquiry and by Operation Herne (Part 1)}}<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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Due to the number of offices and associated details, the list has been split into several pages. This is page 1, covering N officers with cypher number up to 99. <br />
* For an introduction to the cypher system, see [[N_officers| N Officers (main page)]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 100 - 299, see [[N_officers_2|N officers part 2]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 300 to 399, see [[N_officers_3|N officers part 3]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 400 and higher, see [[N_officers_4|N officers part 4]].<br />
* For a complete list SDS undercover officers see [[SDS undercover list]].<br />
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* ''Updated 3 August 2018''; further details of restriction order applications, etc. can be found under individual officer pages where linked.<br />
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{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name (italics for cover name only)<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN1<br />
| ''[[Matt Rayner (alias)|Matt Rayner]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in north London 1991-1996, including London Boots Action Group, London Animal Action, Animal Liberation Front and West London Hunt Saboteurs. Engaged in sexual relationships. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN2]]<br />
| [[Andy Coles]] a.k.a. ''Andy Davey''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in south London 1991-1995; also targeted peace groups. Engaged in sexual relationships. Authored a version of the SDS Tradecraft manual.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN3<br />
| ''[[Jason Bishop (alias)|Jason Bishop]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2006 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and Disarm DSEi. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN4]]<br />
| ''lrestricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into two branches of one group in late 1980s/early 1990s. Real and cover names restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181108_Ruling_13_final.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Demonstration Squad and Special Duties Squad Ruling 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 November 2018.</ref><br />
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|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N5 / HN5<br />
| [[John Dines]] a.k.a. ''John Barker''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 infiltrated London Greenpeace and Animal Liberation Front. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN6]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against three groups in 1990s. Details restricted due to risk of violence and mental health issues.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN7]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover officer.<br />
| Real and cover name restricted on health grounds. Targets & dates unknown.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN8]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover.<br />
| Deployed into one group in late 1980s / early 1990s. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted on grounds of a physical risk.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN9|N9 / HN9]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer. <br />
| Deployed into one group in 1980s; later was a cover officer for officers of interest deployed in 2000s. Named in Ellison Review. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted as HN9 at risk of suicide if details published.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N10 / HN10<br />
| [[Bob Lambert|Robert "Bob" Lambert]] a.k.a. ''Bob Robinson''<br />
| SDS undercover and head of unit.<br />
| Targeted animal rights groups in north London 1984-1989. Engaged in sexual relationships, including fathering a child by one activist. Later head of the SDS and took part in the Walton-N81 meeting.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN11<br />
| [[Mike Chitty]], a.k.a. ''Mike Blake''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1984-1987 deployed into animal rights groups in south London, including South London Animal Movement. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN12]]<br />
| ''Mike Hartley''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1982-1985, deployed into Revolutionary Communist Group and Socialist Workers Party. Engaged in sexual relationships. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN13]]<br />
| ''Barry / Desmond Loader''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) 1974/5-1978. Twice prosecuted for public order offences in his cover name and convicted once. Deceased. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N14 / HN14<br />
| [[Jim Boyling]] a.k.a. ''"Grumpy" Jim Sutton''<br />
| SDS Undercover. <br />
| 1995-2000 deployed into Essex Hunt Saboteurs, Reclaim the Streets and Earth First! Engaged in sexual relationships and fathered children by an activist.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN15]]<br />
| [[Mark Jenner]] a.k.a. ''Mark Cassidy''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1995-2000 targeted Colin Roach Centre, Anti-Fascist Action, Independent Working Class Association, Republican Forum. Mentioned by Lambert as an SDS UCO who 'would have involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison page 214). Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N16 / HN16 <br />
| ''[[James Straven_(alias)|James Straven]]'' and ''Kevin Crossland''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1997-2002 deployed into the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Brixton and Croydon Hunt Saboteurs. Used two cover names, including the identity of a dead child. Lied about having had relationships with women. As a result, Mitting revoked his decision to restrickt his real name. Both women, 'Sara' and 'Ellie' have been accepted as core participants in late 2018.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN17]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Targeted right wing groups in 1990s (last 15 years of SDS existance).<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN18]]<br />
| ''Rob Harrison''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 2004-2007 into thee International Solidarity Movement (London branch), State of Emergency Collective, No Borders, Globalise Resistance.<ref >Email to core participants, '20181211-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing _HN18', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN19<br />
| ''[[Malcolm Shearing (alias)|Malcolm Shearing]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1981 to 1985 deployed into Revolutionary Communist Party &amp; Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist/Leninist). Arrested and cautioned for bill posting. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN20<br />
| ''[[Tony Williams (alias)|Tony Williams]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978 to 1982 deployed into the Revolutionary Communist Tendency and Direct Action Movement. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN21]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1970s / early 1980s against one group & reported on others. Ruling real and cover name restricted on mental health grounds. Appears as 'Geoff' in True Spies where it is clear he targeted ANL and SWP, and was present at the Grunwick strike.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN22]]<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| 20 Feb 2018: directed that restriction orders applications to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018).</ref> No application made.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/> No application made so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN23]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1990s. Real and cover name to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN24]]<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS Det. Sgt. (management)<br />
| Prior to joining the [SDS] in 2001, HN24 handled and distributed intelligence gathered by deployed undercover officers at the time of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. Also served as a cover officer for undercovers, including [[Carlo Neri (alias)|Carlo Neri]]. Real name to be published. Named as a Detective Sergeant in the SDS at some point in the period 2004-2008.<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN25]]<br />
| ''Kevin Douglas''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 deployed into the Troops Out Movement. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN26<br />
| ''[[Christine Green (alias)|Christine Green]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1994-1999 into animal rights groups including Animal Liberation Front, London Animal Action and West London Hunt Saboteurs.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN27]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of left wing groups in the 1990s. In 60s. Ruling made that real and cover names will be restricted on grounds the officer is 'at risk to life and limb' given the nature of deployment and activities undertaken. Mentioned in Ellison.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN28]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups and reported on others in last 15 years of SDS. Minded to: restrict real and cover names as at risk of serious violence if identity discovered.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/201805223-PN_SDS_MT_9.pdf 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad Ruling on HN122], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref> Had been directed to file anonymity application by 24/27 April 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.19Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180419_direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 April 2018.</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180426_HN28_application.pdf Open application over real and cover names (26 Apr 2018)]<br />
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9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
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30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN29]]<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS management / back office.<br />
| 11 May 2018: directed applications for anonymity to be made by end of month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018"/> However, no application to restrict real name was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-PN-SDS-minded-to-11.pdf Press notice - 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 11], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-11.pdf Counsel to the Inqury's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 9 and Ruling 8 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad: Update as at 21 June 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref> so it will be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN30]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN32<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| Directions has been given to supply any application by end of April 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.19Apr2018"/> No application made, so real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/>. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN33/98<br />
| ''[[Lee Bonser (alias)|Kathryn Lesley 'Lee' Bonser]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Socialist Workers Party. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN34<br />
| ''Geoff Craft''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| Real name to be published; no restriction application made.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN35]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS Det. Sergeant<br />
| SDS cover officer for six undercovers for 2 years during the last period of the existence of the SDS. Ruling (May 2018): real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN36<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS management / back office (DCI in 2004)<br />
| Real name to be published (June 2018).<br />
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11 May 2018: directed that any applications relating to HN36 to be filed by end of the month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018"/> No such application was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Any cover name to be considered at document redaction stage.<ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018"/><ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> <br />
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The Risk Assessment for [[HN30]] notes that HN36 was the Detective Chief Inspector of the SDS, and had approached [[HN30]] to join SDS, apparently at the recommendation of either HN10 or HN90 - she joined in 2004. He was in place during the 2005 G8 Summit protests in Scotland where they oversaw the handling of the arrests of [[Jason Bishop (alias)|Jason Bishop]] and [[Dave Evans (alias)|Dave Evans]]. HN30 also commented on HN36's as being good on welfare support, including implementing a system of undercovers regularly visiting pyschiatrists.<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018">Adrian Baxter, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/11-20180831-HN30-Gisted_Risk_Assessment.pdf N30 - Risk Assessment (gisted)], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 28 August 2018 (accessed 2 October 2018, via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN39<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| Real name to be published (June 2018).<br />
<br />
11 May 2018: directed that any applications relating to HN39 to be filed by end of the month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018"/> No such application was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> No cover name used.<ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN40|N40]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Undercover in last decade of the unit.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> Mentioned in relation to how information from the SDS, particularly on the identities of protestors, was passed on to the rest of the police (Herne II, 13.4, 24.1.3).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN41]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in the 1970s and 1980s, of which the principle target group no longer exists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N43<br />
| Peter Francis, a.k.a. ''Peter Daley / Johnson / Black''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1993-1997 infiltrated Youth against Racism in Europe and Militant & Socialist Party. <br />
<br />
Mentioned in Herne I (3.5, 3.6) though not by real name; his identity can be inferred as he was the only former undercover who provided a video interview to ''the Guardian''.<ref name="herne.1">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-1---Covert-Identities.pdf Operation Herne Report 1: Covert Identities], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', July 2013.</ref> Peter Francis confirmed this was his cypher in a tweet of 23 January 2018.<ref>Peter Francis, [https://twitter.com/realspycop/status/955788147090251776 I really do hope I actually was a #Spycops or all those years of counselling were a total waste of money! Wow just imagine if it turns out I wasn't!! My totally unwanted Police anonymity number was N43], ''Twitter.com'', 23 January 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
On 25 January 2018, the Inquiry revealed that Francis had used three cover identities, 'Peter Johnson', 'Peter Daley' and 'Peter Black'. This was the first public revealing of the alias 'Peter Johnson', a name taken from that of a dead child. The Inquiry noted that it 'has been in touch with Peter Johnson’s close relatives who have made it very clear that they want the media to respect their privacy and not to seek to contact them by any means'.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180125-press-release-Francis.pdf Press notice: No restriction sought over cover identities of Peter Francis], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 January 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN44<br />
| ''Darren Prowse''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Tasked to infiltrate the British National Party in 2007. <ref name="email.ucpi.5June2018">Email to core participants, '20180605_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN44_HN155_HN303', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS-CL_HN44_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] 26 Feb 2018 (published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref>) which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Mitting wrote (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
:: HN44 is a serving Metropolitan Police officer. In the last period of existence of the Special Duties Squad he was deployed to build a legend to permit him to infiltrate violent elements of one group. The Special Duties Squad was closed and his deployment was ended before he had succeeded in doing so. His evidence about the closure of the Squad is likely to be of interest to the Inquiry. In the (very) unlikely event that any member of he target group can provide or wishes to provide any information about him, publication of his cover name, which will occur, is all that is required to prompt them to do so. Publication of his real name would give rise to a real risk of interference in the private and family life of HN44 and his family and a contingent risk to their safety. It is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. It would be neither proportionate nor justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN45<br />
| ''[[Dave Robertson (alias)|David Robertson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| 1970-1973 infiltrated Banner Books, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and maoist groups in North London. Worked in back office in SDS in adminstrative role for 3 years in 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN48<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 11 Jan 2018: directed that restriction orders applications to be submitted by end of Jan 2018.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180111-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 January 2018.</ref> 30 July 2018: further information sought before a decision on the applications.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> This information was still being sought in September 2018.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/> Feb 2019: Mitting restricted real and cover names:<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190212-SDS_Minded_to_Note_14-_and_Ruling_14.pdf 'Minded to' note 14 and Ruling 14], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 February 2019 (accessed 7 April 2019).</ref><br />
: The duties which HN 48 has performed since his/her departure from the SOS have given rise to a real risk of physical harm to him/her and others. The risks remain. Publication of the real or cover name would increase those risks and would not be in the public interest. Although publication of the cover name might prompt the giving of information or evidence which would assist the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference, the benefit to be gained from doing so is outweighed by the harm to the public interest and interference with his/ her right to respect for an aspect of the right to private life - his/her physical integrity - under Article 8 ECHR, which publication of either would cause.<br />
<br />
The [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200114-restriction_order-HN48.pdf Restriction Order] was published 23 October 2020.<br />
<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN49<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS Det. Sgt (management / back office)<br />
| Name to be published (June 2018).<br />
<br />
11 May 2018: directed that any applications relating to HN49 to be filed by end of the month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018"/> No such application was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Any cover name to be considered at document redaction stage.<ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018"/> Served as cover officer in SDS.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Named as a Detective Sergeant in the SDS at some point in the period 2004-2008.<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN51<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS head of unit & back office<br />
| Serve in back office 1981-83, and as Det. Ch. Insp. in operational charged of the SDS Nov 1988 - July 1991. Unlikely to give evidence having suffered 3 strokes which has left them seriously incapacitated.<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/> Mitting wrote:<ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/><br />
:: The evidence which he provided to Operation Herne, in particular about his time as Detective Chief Inspector, is of significant interest to the Inquiry... But for the matters referred to below, he would have been required to provide and give evidence... When I have seen his medical records, it is very likely that I will decide that he cannot participate in the Inquiry, by providing a witness statement or by giving oral evidence.<br />
<br />
11 May 2018: directed that any applications relating to HN51 to be filed by end of the month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018"/> No such application was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Any cover name to be considered at document redaction stage.<ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN52<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| SDS Sergeant. In received the 1998 memo from Bob Lambert on the meeting between [[Richard Walton]] and [[N81]] (Ellison Review, p. 229).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
<br />
11 May 2018: directed that any applications relating to HN52 to be filed by end of the month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018"/> No such application was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Any cover name to be considered at document redaction stage.<ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN53|HN53/N53]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1980s; Second in Operational Command of SDS 1998-2005 (Det. Insp.). Though evidence is of importance to Inquiry, there is a contingent physical risk which justifies restricting real and cover names. Mentioned in Herne I & II, and Ellison. Ruled that neither real or cover names can be released by the Inquiry.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN56<br />
| ''[[Alan 'Nick' Nicholson (alias)|Alan 'Nick' Nicholson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1990-1991 targeted British National Party.<ref name = covernamesApril>Undercover Policing Inquiry, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ Update of Cover names page], ucpi.org.uk, 17 April 2018.</ref> Real name to be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN58]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| DCI in charge of SDS 1997 - 2001. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN59]]<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| SDS back office staff.<br />
| Served in SDS in late 1980s / early 1990s. Real name to be given 'when evidence relating to them is published before hearings'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.25Jan18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180124-December-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press Notice: Decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 January 2018.</ref> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN60<br />
| ''[[Dave Evans (alias)|Dave Evans]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2005 deployed into Socialist Workers Party, London Animal Action & Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN61<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office staff / manager.<ref name="ucpi.pr2.15Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180115-Nov-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press notice - ‘Minded-to’ anonymity: Special Demonstration Squad Officers (HN13, HN296, HN304, HN339, HN340, HN354, HN356/124, HN61, HN819, HN109, HN9, HN66)], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018.</ref><br />
| No application for a restriction order was made.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018.</ref> Real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN64]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in 1990s and reported on others.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> Real and cover names restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN65<br />
| ''John Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1980 - 1984 targeted Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN65_application.pdf Application made to restrict real and cover names] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/> [https://cnduk.org/statement-on-police-infiltration-of-cnd/ CND statement]<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
In March 2018, Mitting wrote:<br />
:: N65 is a sexagenarian. HN65 was deployed against one group in the early 1980s. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry. The group, which was well known, posed no serious threat to public order. Its members posed,and pose, no risk to the safety of HN65. One of the issues which the Inquiry must investigate, publicly, is why HN65 was deployed against the group and what, if anything, was done with intelligence provided on it by HN65. HN65 is likely to be the principal, perhaps only, source of information about these issues. Publication of the cover name of HN65, together with the name of the group infiltrated, should prompt further information and evidence from members of the group, likely to be of value to the Inquiry.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names will be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN66<br />
| ''[[Edward David Jones (alias)|Edward David Jones (Bob the Builder, Edge, Dave)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against London Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action (Drax) 2005-2007 for SDS.<ref name="email.ucpi.8Jan2018">Email to core participants, '20190108-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN66', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 January 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> but also against WOMBLES for six months in 2001, using same alias for the NPOIU. Also has cipher EN327<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN67<br />
| ''[[Alan Bond (alias)|Alan Bond]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1981 - 1986 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="email.ucpi.7June2018">Email to core participants, '20180607_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN67_HN68_HAB_CP19', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Admits to having a 'fleeting sexual encounter in his cover name with one woman who was not a member of his target group'. Later second in command of SDS for three years in 1990s. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN68<br />
| ''[[Sean Lynch (alias)|Sean Lynch]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1968-74 infiltrated Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign and Sinn Féin (London). Held managerial position in SDS 1982-84. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN69<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS head of unit<br />
| Chief Inspector, heading up SDS 1986-1987. In his statement to Op. Herne stated '…new recruits were instructed on how to go about obtaining false birth certificates. They would obtain details of a deceased person of a similar age from Somerset House and then use those details to go about creating their legend.' (Herne I, 3.1)<ref name="herne.1"/><br />
<br />
11 May 2018: directed that any applications relating to HN69 to be filed by end of the month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> No such application was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> No cover name used.<ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN71]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in 1990s and 2000s / last 15 years of the existence of the SDS.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN72]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager - probably Det. Insp. 2005/2006.<br />
| Deployed for short period in 1980s into one group (inferred as 1986-1987). Held significant managerial position in SDS (approx 2005/6), after Macpherson; considered to have important evidence to give regarding spying on the Lawerence family. Real and cover name restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN76]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in last years of the SDS into one group and reported on others. Mitting has ruled real and cover name will be restricted as HN76 is a serving police officer 'engaged in sensitive duties', so it would not be in the public interest to 'put performance of those duties at risk'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN77<br />
| ''[[Jackie Anderson (alias)|Jaqueline "Jackie" Anderson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2000-2005 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and the WOMBLES. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN78<br />
| ''[[Bobby_Lewis_(alias)|Anthony "Bobby" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1991-1995 into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190716-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN78_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 16 July 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Previously described as deployed Summer 1991-1995 deployed into left wing groups, including some near the Lawrence campaign; joined Special Branch 1986, and SDS in 1991 - leaving that unit by 1996. (Herne II, 12.2; Ellison, 6.4). Aware of Peter Francis' role; said he heard nothing indicating material to smear the Lawrences was being sought (Herne II, 21.1.14; Ellison, 6.3(p), 6.4). Considerable material from him covered in section 6.4 of the Ellison Review (Vol.1).<ref name="herne.2"/><ref name="ellison.1"/><br />
<br />
19 September 2019: two women who had been in relationships with Bobby Lewis were granted core participancy.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190917-ruling-CP_31-RLR_25-costs_24_san.pdf Core participants Ruling 31, Recognised Legal Representatives Ruling 25, Costs of Legal Representation Awards Ruling 24, Applications for a restriction orders by "Bea" and "Jenny"], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 September 2019.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN79<br />
| ''Ross 'RossCo' MacInnes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 tasked against the United British Alliance.<br />
<br />
15 May 2018, Mitting ruled that the real name would be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
Open application published 17 April 2018.<br />
<br />
22 Mar 2018: minded to: restrict real name, and noted:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
:: HN79 was the last undercover officer to be recruited into the Special Duties Squad. He was not fully deployed: the Squad was disbanded before he could be. He found the experience a stressful and unhappy one. He is a serving police officer and is concerned about the impact of the disclosure, in connection with his would-be role as an undercover officer in the Squad, of his real name on his current police duties and on his family. <br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name released April 2018. Ruling of May 2018: real name restricted; application over cover name rejected.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
26 Feb 2018: MPS submit [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180226-MPS-HN79_Application.pdf application to restrict real name only].<br />
<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN80<br />
| ''Colin Clark''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1977 - 1982 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name and groups released 26 June 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018">Email to core participants, '20180626_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN80_HN88_HN90_HN106_HN340', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN80_application.pdf Application made to restrict cover and real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN80 is a septuagenarian. HN80 was deployed as an undercover officer against one group in the late 1970s and early 1980s and encountered and reported on many others. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry because of its length and range and because, according to HN80, it involved a good deal of self-tasking. Publication of the cover name of HN80 may prompt information or evidence from those who encountered HN80 during the deployment. Publication of the real name of HN80 is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would interfere with the right ofHN80 to respect for private and family life. HN80 has expressed fears, which do not appear to be objectively justified, about the risk of violence posed by former targets and their associates. I am prepared to accept that the fears are genuinely held. On the basis of what is t present known, it would be neither proportionate nor justified under article 8(2) of the European Convention to override those fears by refusing to make a restriction order in respect of the real name. <br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[N81|HN81 / N81]]<br />
| ''Dave Hagan''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1996-2001 targeted Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy and Movement for Justice. Referred to extensively in the [[Ellison Review]] in relation to the targeting of the family of Stephen Lawrence. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN82<br />
| ''Nicholas Green''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1982 to 1986 into Socialist Workers Party and Red Action.<ref>Email to core participants, '20180814-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN82_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 August 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> (Previously described as being deployed against two groups in 1980s, one of which said to be violent.) Deceased. Risk assessor finds no risk to safety of his widow, but she has expressed concern all the same, and 'feels' the risk is real. Mitting in his Minded-To of March 2018 indicates the real name shall be restricted while opportunity given to widow of HN82 to make a personal representation at a closed hearing about publication of cover name. Mitting not prepared to act on something vague, but given chance HN82's real name could be discovered via his cover name, the Chair is giving her a chance to make a representation at a closed hearing in respect of the cover name. A closed note also accompanies the open reasons provided in the Minded To.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018.</ref> Subsequent to this, the Inquiry website at unknown date listed the cover name as 'to be published'. 8 Nov 2018: real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/><br />
<br />
13 Sept 2018: "On behalf of HN82's widow the opportunity to pursue a cover name restriction was declined." Application over real name made, with Mitting minded to grant it; open application will be published with date set for responses.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
2 October 2018: the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/14-20170129-MPS-HN82-Open_Application.pdf] applied for by the Metropolitan police to restrict HN82's real name was released,<ref>Department of Legal Services, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/14-20170129-MPS-HN82-Open_Application.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN82], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 29 January 2017 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> with a deadline for responses give as 23 October.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20181001-direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps-in-September-batch.pdf Restriction Order Applications by HN4, HN13, HN25, HN30, HN33, HN82, HN96. HN200 and HN304], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 October 2018.</ref><br />
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8 November 2018: Mitting ruled that the officer's real name will be restricted for the purposes of the Inquiry on the grounds it would not assist the Inquiry to get to the truth of his deployment and because of the harm to the widow it would cause.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/> The [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200114-restriction_order-HN82.pdf Restriction Order] published 23 Oct 2020.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| [[HN83]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed against one group in mid-1980s; real and cover names restricted due to risk to officer's personal safety. Later in career did welfare work with SDS.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N85 / HN85<br />
| [[Roger Pearce]] a.k.a. ''Roger Thorley''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1980-1984 infiltrated Freedom Press and anarchist groups. Later Head of Special Branch and Director of Intelligence for Metropolitan Police Service. Mentioned in the first Operation Herne report and the Ellison Review.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN86]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| SDS undercover in late 1970s / early 1980s 'against groups whose principle activities during that time are outside the terms of reference of the Inquiry'. Later Det. Ch. Insp. in operational charge of the SDS for a period in 1990s, and temporary head of S Squad. Mentioned by Herne and Ellison, inlcuding in relation to spying on the Lawrence family. Mitting has ruled the real and cover names will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN87]]<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s/1990s. Real and cover names restricted for reasons which cannot be made public.<ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN88<br />
| ''[[Timothy Spence (alias)|Timothy Spence]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated the Stoke Newington and Hackney Defence Campaign and the Hackney Campaign Against the Police Bill. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN89 / N89<br />
| ''cover name to come''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated far right in 1990s and 'involved in public order situations where left and right attended'; contemporary of Peter Francis who would confide in N89.<ref name="ellison.1"/> Deceased; real and cover name to be published as no application made to restrict details (Nov 2017 minded-to).<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN90<br />
| ''Mark Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1988-1992 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party and City of London Anti-Apartheid Group.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018"/><br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN90_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
March 2018: Mitting minded to publish cover name but restrict real name, writing:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN90 is a sexagenarian. HN90 was deployed into one group, after a short deployment in another, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The deployment appears to have been unremarkable. The risk to the safety of HN90 arising out of it is nil or negligible. The deployment is, nevertheless, of significant interest to the Inquiry, for at least two reasons: it spanned the period during which the Cold War ended and the focus of undercover deployments may have changed; and it included reporting on Poll Tax demonstrations. Fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry requires that these issues are explored publicly and that those with whom HN90 may have interacted have the opportunity of providing information or evidence about the deployment... It does not require that the real name of HN90 is published. <br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN91]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in last period of SDS. Neither group poses a threat, but the officer is currently serving in a 'valuable and sensitve role' so real or cover name are to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN95<br />
| ''Stefan Wesolowski''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1985-1988 deployed into Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Apr 2018: Mitting said he was minded-to refuse application to restrict real name, saying:<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/><br />
:: His deployment was problematical and was terminated by his managers abruptly in 1988. He was medically retired soon after. Little or nothing is known about his current circumstances or concerns, save that it is believed he is aware of the attempts which have been made to contact him in connection with the Inquiry. If he is, he has not responded to them.<br />
:: The [MPS] has made an application for a restriction order in respect of his real name. The grounds of the application are generic. They do not identify the respects, if any, in which his right to respect for his private and family life would be infringed by publication of his real name, beyond referring to a paragraph in the risk assessment created on 27 February 2018 which is, itself, generic.... I am not willing to make a restriction order on Article 8 grounds without some good reason for believing that the right to respect for private and family life would be infringed if real or cover name were published. In the case of HN95, I have no such reason. Further, the real name of HN95 and the circumstances in which he came to join and leave the [SDS] are know to responsible journalists. The latter have been put into the public domain by them. I have no reason to believe that any attempt will be made to restrain publication of that which they know - the real name of HN95. In those circumstances, it would be futile to make a restriction order in respect of the real name.<br />
<br />
11 Jan 2018, directed restriction orders application to be submitted by end of Jan 2018.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11Jan2018"/> Minded To (March 2018): application delayed.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018"/> Apr 2018: Mitting orders that HN95 'should provide notification that they wish to be heard in closed hearing' by 7 May 2018, with skeleton argument setting out objections to his Minded To to reject application to restrict real name to be provided by 11 May 2018.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8directions.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-directions_to_accompany_Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad Directions following publication of 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> No application was made to restrict the cover name, which will be published in due course. A response from HN95 to have real name restricted was recieved and went to a closed hearing.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: Mitting refuses to make ruling restricting real name of HN95.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_Minded-to_12_and_Ruling_10.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
12 March 2019: cover name released.<ref name="email.ucpi.12Mar2019">Email to core participants, '20190312-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN95', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 12 Mar 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN96<br />
| ''[[Michael James (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978-1983 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party & Troop Out Movement. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN97]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s into one group and reported on many others. Ruled that real and cover name will be restricted due to a risk to HN97 which cannot be made public.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN99<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| No application for restriction order made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=SDS_undercover_list&diff=257641SDS undercover list2021-08-31T16:02:12Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=SDS undercover list|Description=A list of all publicly known officers who served undercover with the Special Demonstration Squad, 1968-2008}}<br />
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This page carries a full list of publicly identified undercover police officers who served with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]], their anonymity status within the Undercover Policing Inquiry, and with links to profiles were done. For a more comprehensive list of all N/HN officers in Operation Herne, Ellisor Review and the Undercover Policing Inquiry see the [[N officers]] page.<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* ''Updated 25 September 2019''<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN1<br />
| ''[[Matt Rayner (alias)|Matt Rayner]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in north London 1991-1996, including London Boots Action Group, London Animal Action, Animal Liberation Front and West London Hunt Saboteurs. Engaged in sexual relationships. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN2]]<br />
| [[Andy Coles]] a.k.a. ''Andy Davey''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in south London 1991-1995; also targeted peace groups. Engaged in sexual relationships. Authored a version of the SDS Tradecraft manual. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN3<br />
| ''[[Jason Bishop (alias)|Jason Bishop]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2006 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and Disarm DSEi. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN4]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into two branches of one group in late 1980s/early 1990s.<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-PN-SDS-minded-to-11.pdf Press notice - 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N5 / HN5<br />
| [[John Dines]] a.k.a. ''John Barker''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 infiltrated London Greenpeace and Animal Liberation Front. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN6]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against three groups in 1990s. Cover and real name restricted due to risk of violence and mental health issues.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN7]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover officer.<br />
| Real and cover names restricted on health grounds. Targets & dates unknown.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN8]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover.<br />
| Deployed into one group in late 1980s / early 1990s. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted on grounds of a physical risk.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN9|N9 / HN9]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer. <br />
| Deployed into one group in 1980s; later was a cover officer for officers of interest deployed in 2000s. Named in Ellison Review. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted as HN9 at risk of suicide if details published.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N10 / HN10<br />
| [[Bob Lambert|Robert "Bob" Lambert]] a.k.a. ''Bob Robinson''<br />
| SDS undercover and head of unit.<br />
| Targeted animal rights groups in north London 1984-1989. Engaged in sexual relationships, including fathering a child by one activist. Later head of the SDS and took part in the Walton-N81 meeting.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN11<br />
| [[Mike Chitty]], a.k.a. ''Mike Blake''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1984-1987 deployed into animal rights groups in south London, including South London Animal Movement. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN12]]<br />
| ''Mike Hartley''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1982-1985, deployed into Revolutionary Communist Group and Socialist Workers Party. Engaged in sexual relationships. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN13]]<br />
| ''Barry / Desmond Loader''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) 1974/5-1978. Twice prosecuted for public order offences in his cover name and convicted once. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N14 / HN14<br />
| [[Jim Boyling]] a.k.a. ''"Grumpy" Jim Sutton''<br />
| SDS Undercover. <br />
| 1995-2000 deployed into Essex Hunt Saboteurs, Reclaim the Streets and Earth First! Engaged in sexual relationships and fathered children by an activist.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN15]]<br />
| [[Mark Jenner]] a.k.a. ''Mark Cassidy''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1995-2000 targeted Colin Roach Centre, Anti-Fascist Action, Independent Working Class Association, Republican Forum. Mentioned by Lambert as an SDS UCO who 'would have involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison page 214). Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N16 / HN16 <br />
| ''[[James Straven_(alias)|James Straven]]'' and ''Kevin Crossland''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1997-2002 deployed into the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Brixton and Croydon Hunt Saboteurs. Used two cover names, including the identity of a dead child. Lied about having had relationships with women. One of them, 'Ellie', came forward.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN17]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Targeted right wing groups in 1990s (last 15 years of SDS existence).<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN18]]<br />
| ''[[Rob Harrison (alias)|Rob Harrison]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2004-2007 deployed into State of Emergency Collective, No Borders London, Globalise Resistance, rampART and the International Solidarity Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN19<br />
| ''[[Malcolm Shearing (alias)|Malcolm Shearing]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1981 to 1985 deployed into Revolutionary Communist Party &amp; Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist/Leninist). Arrested and cautioned for bill posting. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN20<br />
| ''[[Tony Williams (alias)|Tony Williams]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978 to 1982 deployed into the Revolutionary Communist Tendency and Direct Action Movement. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN21]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1970s / early 1980s against one group & reported on others. Ruled that real and cover names to be restricted on mental health grounds. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN23]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1990s. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN25]]<br />
| ''Kevin Douglas'<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 deployed into the Troops Out Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN26<br />
| ''[[Christine Green (alias)|Christine Green]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1994-1999 into animal rights groups including Animal Liberation Front, London Animal Action and West London Hunt Saboteurs.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN27]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of left wing groups in the 1990s. In 60s. Ruling made that real and cover names will be restricted on grounds the officer is 'at risk to life and limb' given the nature of deployment and activities undertaken. Mentioned in Ellison.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN28<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups and reported on others in last 15 years of SDS. Minded to: restrict real and cover names as at risk of serious violence if identity discovered.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/201805223-PN_SDS_MT_9.pdf 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad Ruling on HN122], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref> Had been directed to file anonymity application by 24/27 April 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.19Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180419_direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 April 2018.</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180426_HN28_application.pdf Open application over real and cover names (26 Apr 2018)]<br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN33/98<br />
| ''[[Lee Bonser (alias)|Kathryn Lesley 'Lee' Bonser]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Socialist Workers Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN40|N40]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Undercover in last decade of the unit.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> Mentioned in relation to how information from the SDS, particularly on the identities of protestors, was passed on to the rest of the police (Herne II, 13.4, 24.1.3).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN41]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in the 1970s and 1980s, of which the principle target group no longer exists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N43<br />
| Peter Francis, a.k.a. ''Peter Daley / Johnson / Black''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1993-1997 infiltrated Youth against Racism in Europe and Militant & Socialist Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN44<br />
| ''Darren Prowse''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Tasked to infiltrate the British National Party in 2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.5June2018">Email to core participants, '20180605_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN44_HN155_HN303', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS-CL_HN44_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] 26 Feb 2018 (published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref>) which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Mitting wrote (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
:: HN44 is a serving Metropolitan Police officer. In the last period of existence of the Special Duties Squad he was deployed to build a legend to permit him to infiltrate violent elements of one group. The Special Duties Squad was closed and his deployment was ended before he had succeeded in doing so. His evidence about the closure of the Squad is likely to be of interest to the Inquiry. In the (very) unlikely event that any member of he target group can provide or wishes to provide any information about him, publication of his cover name, which ill occur, is all that is required to prompt them to do so. Publication of his real name would give rise to a eal risk of interference in the private and family life of HN44 and his family and a contingent risk to their safety. It is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. It would be neither proportionate nor justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN45<br />
| ''[[Dave Robertson (alias)|Dave Robertson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| 1970-1973 infiltrated Banner Books, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and maoist groups in North London. Worked in back office in SDS in adminstrative role for 3 years in 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN48<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN53|HN53/N53]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1980s; Second in Operational Command of SDS 1998-2005 (Det. Insp.). Though evidence is of importance to Inquiry, there is a contingent physical risk which justifies restricting real and cover names. Mentioned in Herne I & II, and Ellison. Ruled that neither real or cover names can be released by the Inquiry.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN56<br />
| ''[[Alan 'Nick' Nicholson (alias)|Alan 'Nick' Nicholson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1990-1991 targeted British National Party.<ref name = covernamesApril>Undercover Policing Inquiry, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ Update of Cover names page], ucpi.org.uk, 17 April 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN58]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| DCI in charge of SDS 1997 - 2001. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN60<br />
| ''[[Dave Evans (alias)|Dave Evans]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2005 deployed into Socialist Workers Party, London Animal Action & Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN64]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in 1990s and reported on others.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN65<br />
| ''John Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1980 - 1984 targeted Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN65_application.pdf Application made to restrict real and cover names] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/> [https://cnduk.org/statement-on-police-infiltration-of-cnd/ CND statement]<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
In March 2018, Mitting wrote:<br />
:: N65 is a sexagenarian. HN65 was deployed against one group in the early 1980s. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry. The group, which was well known, posed no serious threat to public order. Its embers posed,and pose, no risk to the safety of HN65. One of the issues which the Inquiry must investigate, publicly, is why HN65 was deployed against the group and what, if anything, was done with intelligence provided on it by HN65. HN65 is likely to be the principal, perhaps only, source of information about these issues. Publication of the cover name of HN65, together with the name of the group infiltrated, should prompt further information and evidence from members of the group, likely to be of value to the Inquiry.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN66<br />
| ''[[Edward David Jones (alias)|Edward David Jones (Bob the Builder, Edge, Dave)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against London Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action (Drax) 2005-2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.8Jan2018">Email to core participants, '20190108-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN66', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 January 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> In 60s.<br />
<br />
HN66 is the same as the NPOIU officer EN327.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180502_press_notice_NPOIU_anonymity.pdf Press Notice: 'Minded to' note: applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN67<br />
| ''[[Alan Bond (alias)|Alan Bond]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1981- 86 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="email.ucpi.7June2018">Email to core participants, '20180607_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN67_HN68_HAB_CP19', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Admits to having a 'fleeting sexual encounter in his cover name with one woman who was not a member of his target group'. Later second in command of SDS for three years in 1990s. Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN68<br />
| ''[[Sean Lynch (alias)|Sean Lynch]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1968-74 infiltrated Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign and Sinn Féin (London). Held managerial position in SDS 1982-84. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN71]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in 1990s and 2000s / last 15 years of the existence of the SDS.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HN7Ruling.27Mar2018">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Final-ruling-following-21-March-hearing.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad Ruling 5 ], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN72]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed for short period in 1980s into one group (inferred as 1986-1987). Held significant managerial position in SDS (approx 2005/6), after Macpherson; considered to have important evidence to give regarding spying on the Lawrence family. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN76]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in last years of the SDS into one group and reported on others. Mitting has ruled real and cover names will be restricted as HN76 is a serving police officer 'engaged in sensitive duties', so it would not be in the public interest to 'put performance of those duties at risk'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN77<br />
| ''[[Jackie Anderson (alias)|Jaqueline "Jackie" Anderson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2000-2005 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and the WOMBLES.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN78<br />
| ''[[Bobby_Lewis| Anthony "Bobby" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1991 - 1995 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190716-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN78_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 16 July 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Previously described as deployed Summer 1991-1995 deployed into left wing groups, including some near the Lawrence campaign; joined Special Branch 1986, and SDS in 1991 - leaving that unit by 1996. (Herne II, 12.2; Ellison, 6.4). Aware of Peter Francis' role; said he heard nothing indicating material to smear the Lawrences was being sought (Herne II, 21.1.14; Ellison, 6.3(p), 6.4). Considerable material from him covered in section 6.4 of the Ellison Review (Vol.1).<ref name="herne.2"/><ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN78 is a sexagenarian. HN78 was deployed into two or three groups in the early 1990s. HN78 admits to a relationship with a member of the opposite sex during the deployment. The Inquiry must investigate deployments into these groups, including that of HN78... Further, members of the target groups must have the opportunity to give evidence about the deployment of HN78. To do that, they will need to know the cover name. <br />
<br />
Decision to restrict real name but publish cover name reiterated on 6 June 2018, when Mitting wrote:<ref name="ucpi.minded-to10.6June2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180606-Minded_to_10_and_ruling_9.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' note 10 and Ruling 9], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 June 2018.</ref><br />
: I repeat the reasons set out in the "minded to" note 6 dated 22 March 2018. Further, HN78 has now provided a detailed personal statement in support of the application for a restriction order in respect of the cover name. It provides information about the reasons for the deployments referred to in paragraph 20 of "minded to" note 6, which must be explored in public. It is also necessary that the cover name of HN78 is published, to permit members of the target groups to provide evidence about the deployments and their own activities.<br />
: The reasons for the ruling are those set out in the closed note referred to in paragraph 21 of "minded to" note 6 and in the closed note which accompanies this ruling.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN79<br />
| ''Ross 'RossCo' MacInnes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 tasked against the United British Alliance.<br />
<br />
22 Mar 2018: minded to: restrict real name, and noted:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
:: HN79 was the last undercover officer to be recruited into the Special Duties Squad. He was not fully deployed: the Squad was disbanded before he could be. He found the experience a stressful and unhappy one. He is a serving police officer and is concerned about the impact of the disclosure, in connection with his would-be role as an undercover officer in the Squad, of his real name on his current police duties and on his family. <br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name released April 2018. Ruling of May 2018: real name restricted; application over cover name rejected.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
26 Feb 2018: MPS submit [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180226-MPS-HN79_Application.pdf application to restrict real name only].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN80<br />
| ''Colin Clark''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1977-1982 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name and groups released 26 June 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018">Email to core participants, '20180626_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN80_HN88_HN90_HN106_HN340', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names]</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN80_application.pdf Application made to restrict cover and real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN80 is a septuagenarian. HN80 was deployed as an undercover officer against one group in the late 1970s and early 1980s and encountered and reported on many others. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry because of its length and range and because, according to HN80, it involved a good deal of self-tasking. Publication of the cover name of HN80 may prompt information or evidence from those who encountered HN80 during the deployment. Publication of the real name of HN80 is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would interfere with the right ofHN80 to respect for private and family life. HN80 has expressed fears, which do not appear to be objectively justified, about the risk of violence posed by former targets and their associates. I am prepared to accept that the fears are genuinely held. On the basis of what is t present known, it would be neither proportionate nor justified under article 8(2) of the European Convention to override those fears by refusing to make a restriction order in respect of the real name. <br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[N81|HN81 / N81]]<br />
| ''Dave Hagan''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1996-2001 targeted Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy and Movement for Justice. Referred to extensively in the [[Ellison Review]] in relation to the targeting of the family of Stephen Lawrence. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN82<br />
| ''Nicholas Green''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1982 to 1986 into Socialist Workers Party and Red Action.<ref>Email to core participants, '20180814-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN82_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 August 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> (Previously described as being deployed against two groups in 1980s, one of which said to be violent.) Deceased. Risk assessor finds no risk to safety of his widow, but she has expressed concern all the same, and 'feels' the risk is real. Mitting in his Minded-To of March 2018 indicates the real name shall be restricted while opportunity given to widow of HN82 to make a personal representation at a closed hearing about publication of cover name. Mitting not prepared to act on something vague, but given chance HN82's real name could be discovered via his cover name, the Chair is giving her a chance to make a representation at a closed hearing in respect of the cover name. A closed note also accompanies the open reasons provided in the Minded To.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018 (accessed 10 March 2018).</ref> Subsequent to this, the Inquiry website at unknown date listed the cover name as 'to be published'. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| [[HN83]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in mid-1980s; name restricted due to risk to officer's personal safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N85 / HN85<br />
| [[Roger Pearce]] a.k.a. ''Roger Thorley''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1980-1984 infiltrated Freedom Press and anarchist groups. Later Head of Special Branch and Director of Intelligence for Metropolitan Police Service. Mentioned in the first Operation Herne report and the Ellison Review.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN86|HN86 / N86]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| SDS undercover in late 1970s / early 1980s 'against groups whose principle activities during that time are outside the terms of reference of the Inquiry'. Later Det. Ch. Insp. in operational charge of the SDS for a period in 1990s, and temporary head of S Squad. Mentioned by Herne and Ellison, inlcuding in relation to spying on the Lawrence family. Mitting has ruled the real and cover names will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN87]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s/1990s. Real and cover names restricted for reasons which cannot be made public.<ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN88<br />
| ''[[Timothy Spence (alias)|Timothy Spence]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated the Stoke Newington and Hackney Defence Campaign and the Hackney Campaign Against the Police Bill. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN89 / N89<br />
| ''cover name to come''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated far right in 1990s and 'involved in public order situations where left and right attended'; contemporary of Peter Francis who would confide in N89.<ref name="ellison.1"/> Deceased; real and cover names to be published as no application made to restrict details (Nov 2017 minded-to).<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN90<br />
| ''Mark Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1988-1992 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party and City of London Anti-Apartheid Group.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018"/><br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN90_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
March 2018: Mitting minded to publish cover name but restrict real name, writing:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN90 is a sexagenarian. HN90 was deployed into one group, after a short deployment in another, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The deployment appears to have been unremarkable. The risk to the safety of HN90 arising out of it is nil or negligible. The deployment is, nevertheless, of significant interest to the Inquiry, for at least two reasons: it spanned the period during which the Cold War ended and the focus of undercover deployments may have changed; and it included reporting on Poll Tax demonstrations. Fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry requires that these issues are explored publicly and that those with whom HN90 may have interacted have the opportunity of providing information or evidence about the deployment... It does not require that the real name of HN90 is published.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN91]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in last period of SDS. Neither group poses a threat, but the officer is currently serving in a 'valuable and sensitve role' so real or cover name are to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN95<br />
| ''Stefan Wesolowski''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1985-1988 deployed into Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> <br />
<br />
Apr 2018: Mitting said he was minded-to refuse application to restrict real name, saying:<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/><br />
:: His deployment was problematical and was terminated by his managers abruptly in 1988. He was medically retired soon after. Little or nothing is known about his current circumstances or concerns, save that it is believed he is aware of the attempts which have been made to contact him in connection with the Inquiry. If he is, he has not responded to them.<br />
:: The [MPS] has made an application for a restriction order in respect of his real name. The grounds of the application are generic. They do not identify the respects, if any, in which his right to respect for his private and family life would be infringed by publication of his real name, beyond referring to a paragraph in the risk assessment created on 27 February 2018 which is, itself, generic.... I am not willing to make a restriction order on Article 8 grounds without some good reason for believing that the right to respect for private and family life would be infringed if real or cover name were published. In the case of HN95, I have no such reason. Further, the real name of HN95 and the circumstances in which he came to join and leave the [SDS] are know to responsible journalists. The latter have been put into the public domain by them. I have no reason to believe that any attempt will be made to restrain publication of that which they know - the real name of HN95. In those circumstances, it would be futile to make a restriction order in respect of the real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN96<br />
| ''[[Michael James (alias)|Michael James]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978-1983 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party & Troop Out Movement.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN97]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s into one group and reported on many others. Ruled that real and cover names will be restricted due to a risk to HN97 which cannot be made public.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN101]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party in 1990s. Contemporary of [[Peter Francis]], and according to [[Bob Lambert]], had 'an involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison, p. 214).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN102]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into anarchist groups in the 1980s. Mitting has restricted real and cover names on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN104<br />
| ''[[Carlo Neri (alias)|Carlo Neri]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed March 2000 to Summer 2006 into Socialist Party and No Platform / Antifa.<br />
<br />
Real name known to the activists he spied upon, and who exposed him.<ref name="mitting.supp.minded-to.23Oct2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171023-supplementary-Minded-to.pdf Supplementary 'Minded-To'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2017 (accessed 23 October 2017 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> During the public hearing of 21 November, it was recognised that Carlo's real name was going to be published, the matter effectively reduced to who did it.<ref name="ucpi.hearing.transcript.21Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171121-Anonymity-application-hearing-day-2-Draft-Transcript.pdf Transcript of hearing of 21 November 2017], Undercover Policing Inquiry, 21 November 2017.</ref> whcih was acknowledged in a ruling of Dec 2017.<ref name="ucpi.HN104.20Dec2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171220-HN-104-Ruling.pdf On the application of HN104 for a restriction order in respect of his real name], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry", 20 December 2017.</ref> Discussions on how to publish the name, while respecting rights of the family are on-going (17 July 2018).<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180717-SDS_anonymity_direction_HN104.pdf Application for a restriction order in respect of HN104 - Direction], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN106<br />
| ''[[Barry_Tomkins_(alias)|Barry Tomkins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1979-1983 deployed into the Spartacist League of Britain. Ruled real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN109]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s; later a Det. Insp. in SDS in 1995 (1980s/1990s). Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN112]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 in training though never actually deployed. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN118<br />
| ''[[Simon Wellings (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 2001-2004 (2007) into Globalise Resistance, Socialist Workers Party and Dissent!<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN122<br />
| ''Neil Richardson''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Revolutionary Communist Party & Class War 1989-1993.<ref name="email.ucpi.12Feb2019">Email to core participants, '20190212-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN122', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 12 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN123]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into left wing groups 1993-1998, one of which 'advocated and practiced the use of violence'. Retired from MPS on health grounds & later diagnosed with a mental health condition in part derived from his deployment. Said to have played a part in activities connected to the spying on the Lawrences. Mentioned in both Ellison Review and Herne II. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN125]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a single left wing group in 1980s. Real and cover names to be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN126]]<br />
| ''Paul Gray''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the Socialist Workers Party and Anti-Nazi League 1977-1982.<ref name="email.ucpi.25June2019">Email to core participants, '20190625-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN126_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN135 / [[Mike Ferguson]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated anti-apartheid campaigners including the 'Stop the Seventy' campaign - 1969-1970. Real name given in ''True Spies'' series.<br />
<br />
20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications applications were to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Mar2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: closed hearing to take place.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> July 2018: 'further investigation necessary befor application to restrict the cover name can be determined. The real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
29 Oct 2019: real name released as already in public domain (see ''True Spies''), but cover name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling16.29Oct2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191029-sds_anonymity-ruling_16_san.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Ruling 16'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 29 October 2019.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN155]]<br />
| ''Phil Cooper''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1979/80 to January 1984. Ruled that real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN200<br />
| ''Roger Harris''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1974-1977. <br />
<br />
Minded-To (March 2018): real name cannot be published; cover name to be published.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
Details released 17 July 2018).<ref name="email.ucpi.14July2018">Email to core participants, '20180717_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN25_HN200_direction_HN104', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 July2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Currently in 70s. Deployment apparently unremarkable. Mitting: no reason to publish real name; and HN200 and wife are concerned about media intrustion.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN218 / N218<br />
| ''Barry Morris''<br />
| SDS undercover and probably manager<br />
| Deployed 1968 into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018"/><br />
<br />
Cover name and real name to be published as no restriction order application made.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> Cover name released May 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018">Email to core participants, '20180501_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN3_HN19_HN20_HN60_HN218_HN353', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 1 May 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Herne II, para. 25.1.2 states: The MPS Director of Intelligence in 1999 has been interviewed by Operation Herne and stated, 'I have been asked if I recall 'any Special Branch plans to mislead the Macpherson Inquiry' into the death of Stephen Lawrence. For part of this time, I was head of Special Branch operations and have no recollection of any such plans.’ Peter Francis has alleged that N218 came out to see him in respect of withholding information from the Macpherson Inquiry. In interview, N218 stated that this meeting or request never happened.<ref name="herne.2"/> There is a strong probablility that N218 is former Special Branch commander [[Barry Moss]].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN241<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into one group in 1970s. Ruling (20 Feb 2018): real and cover names to be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling.20Feb18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-ruling-SDS-anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 4 March 2018).</ref> No allegation of misconduct. Arrested but not charged on one occasion.<ref name="hn241.ra">Brian Lockie, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20171221-HN241-Risk-Assessment.pdf HN241 Risk assessment (open version)], ''Metropolitan Police'', 3 October 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN294]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968-1969 into a group that no longer exists, and reported on others. Held a managerial position in the SDS 1969-1974. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN296<br />
| ''Geoff Wallace''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party from 1975 to 1978;<ref name="email.ucpi.4June2019">Email to core participants, '20190604-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN296_cover_name', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 4 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> no known allegation of misconduct against him. Currently in late 60s.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
He does not live in the UK but is willing to cooperate with the Inquiry.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18"/> Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN297<br />
| ''[[Rick Gibson (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated Troop Out Movement 1974-1976 and tasked to infiltrate Big Flame - discovered and confronted by them in 1976. Multiple sexual relationships. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN298<br />
| ''[[Michael Scott (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971 to 1976 into the Young Liberals, Anti-Apartheid Movement and Workers Revolutionary Party. Convicted in 1972 under his cover name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. His cover surname has not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323 / Helen Crampton<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1968 to mid-1970 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in ''True Spies'' under the pseudonym 'Dan'.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover &amp; manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969-1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971-1976 against International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League & Troops Out Movement.<ref name="tw.ucpi.18Dec2018">[https://twitter.com/ucpinquiry/status/1074972312389197826 Cover name released: "David Hughes". Groups: International Marxist Group; Anti-Internment League; Troops Out Movement. Years active: 1971 - 1976.], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (Twitter.com)'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into Anti-Internment League and Northern Minorities Defence Force.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] in 1971.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Womens Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Minded to restrict real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| ''[[Vince Miller (alias)|Vince Miller]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=National_Common_Intelligence_Application&diff=257638National Common Intelligence Application2021-08-27T16:10:59Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{Police_Unit_sidebar_(URG)|Series=Domestic Extremism|Name=National Common Intelligence Application|Alias=NCIA|Parents=[[National Police Chiefs Council]], Apollo Programme|SubUnits=none|Targets=[[Domestic Extremism]], Counter Terrorism|Dates=mid 2010s to present}}<br />
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The '''National Common Intelligence Application (NCIA)''' is a database and communication software used by counter-terrorism/domestic extremism police. It replaces the [[National Special Branch Information System]] (NBSIS).<br />
<br />
According to the UK Government:<ref name="action.plan"/><br />
:: The National Common Intelligence Application (NCIA) database has been created to replace forces' individual counter-terrorism databases. The NCIA is a national database and is administered centrally by the National Counter Terrorism Police Headquarters within the MPS. As this data is now on one database and is under the control of one police force, this ensures a consistent approach to the review, retention and disposal of this information.<br />
<br />
==Apollo Programme==<br />
<br />
Prior to the NCIA, NSBIS was used by Special Branch / Counter Terrorism units. This was software / database package which was installed in local instances in the units. As NSBIS could be customised, it lead to 'inconsistent and varied information-recording practices'.<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/> As national connectivity was deemed a key aspect of the 2012 National Policing Requirement,<ref>[https://www.college.police.uk/About/Documents/National_Policing_Requirement.pdf National Policing Requirement], ''Association of Chief Police Officers'', 2012 (accessed via College of Policing).</ref> this was deemed a weakness, leading to replacement NCIA under the Apollo programme,<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/> which began as early as 2011 when a pilot programme took place in the South West Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit.<ref>[https://archives.dcpa.police.uk/PDFstore/swpajc/110204/6.pdf Programme Board Update: Project Brunel], ''South West Regional Collaboration Programme'', 13 January 2011 (accessed 5 June 2020, accessed via DCPA.police.uk).</ref> In July 2015, UK police forces had 'been investing time and resources into ensuring that the data contained in their National Special Branch Intelligence Systems is suitable to transfer onto the National Common Intelligence Application'.<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/><br />
<br />
The purpose of the Apollo programme was given in 2015 as:<ref name="Higgins.2015Q2">Nicole Higgins, [https://www.npcc.police.uk/Publication/NPCC%20FOI/SPR/021%2016%20%20NPCC%20Response%2002%20att%2001%20of%2001%2023032016.pdf 2015/2016 Q2 Delivery Plan Update], ''National Police Chiefs' Council - Audit & Assurance Board'', 5 October 2015 (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref><br />
:: Apollo supports the integration of our national intelligence model with other delivery projects and programmes including DRR, NDES, CT Police Operations Rooms and National Functions, as part of the activity being led by Cmdr [Keith] Surtees], as agreed at CTCC [NPCC'S Counter Terrorism Coordinating Committee] (22 September). Management of the dependencies between these projects and programmes is challenging.<br />
<br />
and in 2016:<ref name="ccc.Apr.16">[https://www.npcc.police.uk/documents/CCCMinutesApril18.pdf Minutes of Meeting of Chief Constables' Council held on 20-21 April 2016], ''National Police Chiefs' Council'', 27 April 2016 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref><br />
:: to provide common intelligence applications and common intelligence rules across CT policing, which would enable police officers in London to share that intelligence with forces across the country.<br />
<br />
It's role in linking up regional Special Branches was also noted in 2016:<ref>Francis Habgood, [https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/430046/response/1047200/attach/4/258%2016%20NPCC%20att%2001%20of%2001%2003012017.pdf Item 15.2: Special Branch Review - report to October 2016 meeting of the National Police Chiefs' Council], ''Thames Valley Police'', 26 September 2016 (accessed 26 August 2021).</ref><br />
:: the threat picture continues to evolve and the increasing demands across the [counter terrorism] landscape make it likely that greater collaboration will be needed to manage the changing threat picture. The need to ensure the link from local through regional to national delivery is clear and that it functions effectively. Special Branches are a crucial part of this increased collaboration. Further, there are a number of national change programmes underway to deliver enhanced capabilities and these will provide significant opportunities to deliver a more joined up and efficient service, for example the Apollo programme.<br />
<br />
<br />
Apollo was initially funded by ACPO TAM<ref name="stainer">Ian Stainer, Enhancing Intelligence-Led Policing: Law Enforcement' Big Data Revolution', in [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DeF6DAAAQBA Big Data Challenges: Society, Security, Innovation and Ethics], ed. Anno Bunnik, Anthony Cawley, Michael Mulqueen & Andrej Zwitter, Springer, 2016.</ref> It later came under the aegis of the NPCC's [[National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters]] (NCTPHQ, formerly ACPO TAM) and the [https://www.npcc.police.uk/NPCCBusinessAreas/ReformandTransformation/Specialistcapabilitiesmain/Phaseonereport.aspx 'Specialist Capabilities' programme],<ref name="npcc.minutes">Undercover Research Group: review of minutes of National Police Chiefs' Council, May 2020.</ref> with the Metropolitan Police hosting it (albeit individuals were seconded from other forces).<ref>[https://thamesvalley.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents/Our%20information/Agendas%20and%20Minutes/Policy%20Planning%20and%20Performance/2018/X1%20Pro%20Agenda%2023%20January%202018.pdf Revenue Monitoring Report 2017/2018: Report for Information - Level 1 meeting on 23 January 2018], ''Thames Valley Police'', January 2018 (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref><br />
<br />
Police Scotland was the first force to go fully live with NCIA, by September 2015,<ref>[http://www.spa.police.uk/assets/126884/441011/441103/350967/item4 Quarterly Performance Report Q2 2015/2016], ''Police Scotland'', 2015 (accessed 10 June 2020).</ref> followed by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit in early 2016.<ref name="ccc.Apr.16"/> However, in 2016 it was further delayed due to 'significant resourcing issues', with the final implementation date moving to July 2018.<ref>Nicole Higgins, [https://www.npcc.police.uk/FOI%202016/CO/0412%20Delivery%20Plan%20Summary%20Update.pdf NPCC 2016/17 Delivery Plan update - Q1], ''National Police Chiefs' Council'', 4 July 2016 (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref><ref>Nicole Higgins, [https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/430046/response/1047200/attach/4/258%2016%20NPCC%20att%2001%20of%2001%2003012017.pdf NPCC 2016/17 Delivery Plan update - Q2], ''National Police Chiefs' Council'', 13 October 2016 (accessed 26 August 2021).</ref> In January 2018, it continued to struggle with funding and resources issues.<ref>Nicole Higgins, [https://www.npcc.police.uk/2018%20FOI/NPCC%20Misc/032%2018%20January%202018%20CCC%20Papers%20Part%201.pdf Q3 NPCC 2017/18 Delivery Plan update], ''National Police Chiefs' Council'', 14 January 2018 (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref><br />
<br />
In 2015, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary noted that it had been delayed by 2 years within the Metropolitan Police to address 'data cleansing'.<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture">[https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/building-the-picture.pdf Building the Picture: An inspection of police information management], ''HM Inspectorate of Constabulary'', July 2015 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> and this continued to be a problem in April 2018, with completion of the roll-out in SO15 [[Counter Terrorism Command]] and MPS hosted national counter terrorism units not expected until March 2019.<ref>[https://www.npcc.police.uk/2018%20FOI/NPCC%20Misc/098%2018%20CCC%20April%202018%20Part%201.pdf NPCC Delivery Plan 2018/19 Proposed Objectives], ''National Police Chiefs' Council'', April 2018 (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref><br />
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Integration was achieved in 2019 with one force noting:<ref name="sussex.2019">[https://www.sussex.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/foi-media/sussex/other_information/sussex-police-force-management-statement-2019.pdf Sussex Police Force Management Statement 2019], ''Sussex Police'', 2019 (accessed 26 August 2021)</ref><br />
::The Apollo Programme has now achieved the final integration of SO15 onto the National Common Intelligence Application (NCIA) which is recognised as a momentous milestone in our journey towards national capability. The inclusion of all regions on this common platform (National Secure Network (NSN)), allows CT colleagues across the country to work in partnership and to share intelligence to tackle the threat, risk and harm posed to the public by terrorism. Apollo has started what other change programmes in CT Policing will only continue to extend – our journey towards a ‘single network’ in which our processes are standardised, our systems uniform, and our access seamless.<br />
<br />
Apollo played a wider role than just the creation of the NCIA. A summary from Sussex Police wrote in 2019:<ref name="sussex.2019"/><br />
::The creation of the National Data Management Centre (NDMC) is a project under the Apollo Programme, and is a key supporting function for the CT/DE [Counter-Terrorism/Domestic Extremism] Network. The focus is on ensuring data within the National Common Intelligence Application meets agreed national indexing standards, allowing the CT/DE Network to be more effective and efficient in the way in which we process intelligence, and allowing for confident decision making across the Network. <br />
<br />
The Senior Responsible Officer for the Apollo Programme were Chris Sims, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police<ref name="Higgins.2015Q2"/> until 2016 when he was succeeded by Dave Thompson, who had also replaced him as Chief Constable of West Midlands<ref>[http://www.excellenceinpolicing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EIP2018-brochure_low-res.pdf Excellence in Policing Conference: 2018 Brochure], ''National Police Chiefs' Council'', 2018 (accessed 26 August 2021).</ref>. Thompson oversaw Apollo until 2019.<ref>[https://www.npcc.police.uk/About/Leadership.aspx NPCC Leadership], ''National Police Chiefs' Council'', 2021 (accessed 26 August 2021).</ref>)<br />
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==NCIA workings==<br />
<br />
The NCIA:<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/><br />
:: 'will enable appropriately authorised individuals to be given access to view the whole picture of counter terrorism in the United Kingdom.<br />
<br />
and <br />
<br />
:: 'will be supported by standard operating procedures and national standards of intelligence management. In this way, information will be entered and processed in a consistent manner and will no longer be varied according to the particular team of investigators which acquired it.<br />
<br />
It will allow sharing of information to other areas of 'general policing activities', while protecting 'the highly sensitive information derived from counter-terrorism sources and the means by which any policing tactics secure information'.<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/><br />
<br />
A 2016 statement noted:<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016">Jeffery Lamprey, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-WS-1.pdf Witness statement], ''National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters / Metropolitan Police'', 19 December 2016 (accessed 2 June 2020 via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
:: Migration from local NSBIS instances onto the NCIA is scheduled to take place on a force-by-force (and a unit-by-unit) basis. The entire live NSBIS of a force or unit is transferred to the NCIA when the particular force or unit's migration occurs. <br />
<br />
Those employed or trained in relation to the use of NCIA are expected to have a knowledge of policing around both counter-terrorism and domestic extremism and take a specific course in the use and regulations around the NCIA.<ref>Undercover Research Group: survey of job notices relating to the NCIA, June 2020.</ref><br />
<br />
==Data review, retention and deletion==<br />
<br />
In light of the Catt judgement over the wrongful storage of individual and personal protester information on the [[National Domestic Extremism Database]]<ref>[https://www.bailii.org/eu/cases/ECHR/2019/76.html Judgement in Case of Catt v The United Kingdom], ''European Court of Human Rights'', 24 January 2019.</ref><ref>S[https://www.bindmans.com/insight/updates/catt-v-uk-a-peaceful-activists-victory-over-unwarranted-police-surveillance Insight: Catt v UK – A peaceful activist’s victory over unwarranted police surveillance], ''Bindmans LLP'', 19 February 2019 (accessed 10 June 2020).</ref> the issue of data review, retention and deletion on police databases has received considerable attention. In light of this, and earlier criticism of data retention policies made by both Operation Herne and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (see under [[National Special Branch Intelligence System]] and [[Special Branch Registry]]) new RRD policies have implemented. According, to an 'Action Plan' provided to the European Committee of Ministers:<ref name="action.plan">[https://netpol.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Catt-Action-Plan-24.10.19.pdf Execution of Judgements of the European Court of Human Rights ACTION PLAN - Catt v the United Kingdom], ''UK Government'', 24 October 2019.</ref><br />
:: A team of assessors determine whether a record is relevant and necessary and whether it is proportionate for the record to be added to the database, and their decisions are recorded. The NCIA database schedules a review for all records at either 6, 7 or 10 years depending on the category of the data. A user may also trigger a record for review at another date in time if considered necessary. The work of the assessor team in the MPS will be supported by a revised review, retention and disposal (RDD) policy in respect of the records held on the new NCIA database. <br />
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==Notes==<br />
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The '''National Common Intelligence Application (NCIA)''' is a database and communication software used by counter-terrorism/domestic extremism police. It replaces the [[National Special Branch Information System]] (NBSIS).<br />
<br />
According to the UK Government:<ref name="action.plan"/><br />
:: The National Common Intelligence Application (NCIA) database has been created to replace forces' individual counter-terrorism databases. The NCIA is a national database and is administered centrally by the National Counter Terrorism Police Headquarters within the MPS. As this data is now on one database and is under the control of one police force, this ensures a consistent approach to the review, retention and disposal of this information.<br />
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==Apollo Programme==<br />
<br />
Prior to the NCIA, NSBIS was used by Special Branch / Counter Terrorism units. This was software / database package which was installed in local instances in the units. As NSBIS could be customised, it lead to 'inconsistent and varied information-recording practices'.<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/> As national connectivity was deemed a key aspect of the 2012 National Policing Requirement,<ref>[https://www.college.police.uk/About/Documents/National_Policing_Requirement.pdf National Policing Requirement], ''Association of Chief Police Officers'', 2012 (accessed via College of Policing).</ref> this was deemed a weakness, leading to replacement NCIA under the Apollo programme,<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/> which began as early as 2011 when a pilot programme took place in the South West Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit.<ref>[https://archives.dcpa.police.uk/PDFstore/swpajc/110204/6.pdf Programme Board Update: Project Brunel], ''South West Regional Collaboration Programme'', 13 January 2011 (accessed 5 June 2020, accessed via DCPA.police.uk).</ref> In July 2015, UK police forces had 'been investing time and resources into ensuring that the data contained in their National Special Branch Intelligence Systems is suitable to transfer onto the National Common Intelligence Application'.<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/><br />
<br />
The purpose of the Apollo programme was given in 2015 as:<ref>Nicole Higgins, [https://www.npcc.police.uk/Publication/NPCC%20FOI/SPR/021%2016%20%20NPCC%20Response%2002%20att%2001%20of%2001%2023032016.pdf 2015/2016 Q2 Delivery Plan Update], ''National Police Chiefs' Council - Audit & Assurance Board'', 5 October 2015 (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref><br />
:: Apollo supports the integration of our national intelligence model with other delivery projects and programmes including DRR, NDES, CT Police Operations Rooms and National Functions, as part of the activity being led by Cmdr [Keith] Surtees], as agreed at CTCC [NPCC'S Counter Terrorism Coordinating Committee] (22 September). Management of the dependencies between these projects and programmes is challenging.<br />
<br />
and in 2016:<ref name="ccc.Apr.16">[https://www.npcc.police.uk/documents/CCCMinutesApril18.pdf Minutes of Meeting of Chief Constables' Council held on 20-21 April 2016], ''National Police Chiefs' Council'', 27 April 2016 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref><br />
:: to provide common intelligence applications and common intelligence rules across CT policing, which would enable police officers in London to share that intelligence with forces across the country.<br />
<br />
It's role in linking up regional Special Branches was also noted in 2016:<ref>Francis Habgood, [https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/430046/response/1047200/attach/4/258%2016%20NPCC%20att%2001%20of%2001%2003012017.pdf Item 15.2: Special Branch Review - report to October 2016 meeting of the National Police Chiefs' Council], ''Thames Valley Police'', 26 September 2016 (accessed 26 August 2021).</ref><br />
:: the threat picture continues to evolve and the increasing demands across the [counter terrorism] landscape make it likely that greater collaboration will be needed to manage the changing threat picture. The need to ensure the link from local through regional to national delivery is clear and that it functions effectively. Special Branches are a crucial part of this increased collaboration. Further, there are a number of national change programmes underway to deliver enhanced capabilities and these will provide significant opportunities to deliver a more joined up and efficient service, for example the Apollo programme.<br />
<br />
<br />
Apollo was initially funded by ACPO TAM<ref name="stainer">Ian Stainer, Enhancing Intelligence-Led Policing: Law Enforcement' Big Data Revolution', in [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DeF6DAAAQBA Big Data Challenges: Society, Security, Innovation and Ethics], ed. Anno Bunnik, Anthony Cawley, Michael Mulqueen & Andrej Zwitter, Springer, 2016.</ref> It later came under the aegis of the NPCC's [[National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters]] (NCTPHQ, formerly ACPO TAM) and the [https://www.npcc.police.uk/NPCCBusinessAreas/ReformandTransformation/Specialistcapabilitiesmain/Phaseonereport.aspx 'Specialist Capabilities' programme],<ref name="npcc.minutes">Undercover Research Group: review of minutes of National Police Chiefs' Council, May 2020.</ref> with the Metropolitan Police hosting it (albeit individuals were seconded from other forces).<ref>[https://thamesvalley.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents/Our%20information/Agendas%20and%20Minutes/Policy%20Planning%20and%20Performance/2018/X1%20Pro%20Agenda%2023%20January%202018.pdf Revenue Monitoring Report 2017/2018: Report for Information - Level 1 meeting on 23 January 2018], ''Thames Valley Police'', January 2018 (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref><br />
<br />
Police Scotland was the first force to go fully live with NCIA, by September 2015,<ref>[http://www.spa.police.uk/assets/126884/441011/441103/350967/item4 Quarterly Performance Report Q2 2015/2016], ''Police Scotland'', 2015 (accessed 10 June 2020).</ref> followed by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit in early 2016.<ref name="ccc.Apr.16"/> However, in 2016 it was further delayed due to 'significant resourcing issues', with the final implementation date moving to July 2018.<ref>Nicole Higgins, [https://www.npcc.police.uk/FOI%202016/CO/0412%20Delivery%20Plan%20Summary%20Update.pdf NPCC 2016/17 Delivery Plan update - Q1], ''National Police Chiefs' Council'', 4 July 2016 (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref><ref>Nicole Higgins, [https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/430046/response/1047200/attach/4/258%2016%20NPCC%20att%2001%20of%2001%2003012017.pdf NPCC 2016/17 Delivery Plan update - Q2], ''National Police Chiefs' Council'', 13 October 2016 (accessed 26 August 2021).</ref> In January 2018, it continued to struggle with funding and resources issues.<ref>Nicole Higgins, [https://www.npcc.police.uk/2018%20FOI/NPCC%20Misc/032%2018%20January%202018%20CCC%20Papers%20Part%201.pdf Q3 NPCC 2017/18 Delivery Plan update], ''National Police Chiefs' Council'', 14 January 2018 (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref><br />
<br />
In 2015, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary noted that it had been delayed by 2 years within the Metropolitan Police to address 'data cleansing'.<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture">[https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/building-the-picture.pdf Building the Picture: An inspection of police information management], ''HM Inspectorate of Constabulary'', July 2015 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> and this continued to be a problem in April 2018, with completion of the roll-out in SO15 [[Counter Terrorism Command]] and MPS hosted national counter terrorism units not expected until March 2019.<ref>[https://www.npcc.police.uk/2018%20FOI/NPCC%20Misc/098%2018%20CCC%20April%202018%20Part%201.pdf NPCC Delivery Plan 2018/19 Proposed Objectives], ''National Police Chiefs' Council'', April 2018 (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref><br />
<br />
Integration was achieved in 2019 with one force noting:<ref name="sussex.2019">[https://www.sussex.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/foi-media/sussex/other_information/sussex-police-force-management-statement-2019.pdf Sussex Police Force Management Statement 2019], ''Sussex Police'', 2019 (accessed 26 August 2021)</ref><br />
::The Apollo Programme has now achieved the final integration of SO15 onto the National Common Intelligence Application (NCIA) which is recognised as a momentous milestone in our journey towards national capability. The inclusion of all regions on this common platform (National Secure Network (NSN)), allows CT colleagues across the country to work in partnership and to share intelligence to tackle the threat, risk and harm posed to the public by terrorism. Apollo has started what other change programmes in CT Policing will only continue to extend – our journey towards a ‘single network’ in which our processes are standardised, our systems uniform, and our access seamless.<br />
<br />
Apollo played a wider role than just the creation of the NCIA. A summary from Sussex Police wrote in 2019:<ref name="sussex.2019"/><br />
::The creation of the National Data Management Centre (NDMC) is a project under the Apollo Programme, and is a key supporting function for the CT/DE [Counter-Terrorism/Domestic Extremism] Network. The focus is on ensuring data within the National Common Intelligence Application meets agreed national indexing standards, allowing the CT/DE Network to be more effective and efficient in the way in which we process intelligence, and allowing for confident decision making across the Network. <br />
<br />
==NCIA workings==<br />
<br />
The NCIA:<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/><br />
:: 'will enable appropriately authorised individuals to be given access to view the whole picture of counter terrorism in the United Kingdom.<br />
<br />
and <br />
<br />
:: 'will be supported by standard operating procedures and national standards of intelligence management. In this way, information will be entered and processed in a consistent manner and will no longer be varied according to the particular team of investigators which acquired it.<br />
<br />
It will allow sharing of information to other areas of 'general policing activities', while protecting 'the highly sensitive information derived from counter-terrorism sources and the means by which any policing tactics secure information'.<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/><br />
<br />
A 2016 statement noted:<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016">Jeffery Lamprey, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-WS-1.pdf Witness statement], ''National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters / Metropolitan Police'', 19 December 2016 (accessed 2 June 2020 via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
:: Migration from local NSBIS instances onto the NCIA is scheduled to take place on a force-by-force (and a unit-by-unit) basis. The entire live NSBIS of a force or unit is transferred to the NCIA when the particular force or unit's migration occurs. <br />
<br />
Those employed or trained in relation to the use of NCIA are expected to have a knowledge of policing around both counter-terrorism and domestic extremism and take a specific course in the use and regulations around the NCIA.<ref>Undercover Research Group: survey of job notices relating to the NCIA, June 2020.</ref><br />
<br />
==Data review, retention and deletion==<br />
<br />
In light of the Catt judgement over the wrongful storage of individual and personal protester information on the [[National Domestic Extremism Database]]<ref>[https://www.bailii.org/eu/cases/ECHR/2019/76.html Judgement in Case of Catt v The United Kingdom], ''European Court of Human Rights'', 24 January 2019.</ref><ref>S[https://www.bindmans.com/insight/updates/catt-v-uk-a-peaceful-activists-victory-over-unwarranted-police-surveillance Insight: Catt v UK – A peaceful activist’s victory over unwarranted police surveillance], ''Bindmans LLP'', 19 February 2019 (accessed 10 June 2020).</ref> the issue of data review, retention and deletion on police databases has received considerable attention. In light of this, and earlier criticism of data retention policies made by both Operation Herne and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (see under [[National Special Branch Intelligence System]] and [[Special Branch Registry]]) new RRD policies have implemented. According, to an 'Action Plan' provided to the European Committee of Ministers:<ref name="action.plan">[https://netpol.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Catt-Action-Plan-24.10.19.pdf Execution of Judgements of the European Court of Human Rights ACTION PLAN - Catt v the United Kingdom], ''UK Government'', 24 October 2019.</ref><br />
:: A team of assessors determine whether a record is relevant and necessary and whether it is proportionate for the record to be added to the database, and their decisions are recorded. The NCIA database schedules a review for all records at either 6, 7 or 10 years depending on the category of the data. A user may also trigger a record for review at another date in time if considered necessary. The work of the assessor team in the MPS will be supported by a revised review, retention and disposal (RDD) policy in respect of the records held on the new NCIA database. <br />
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==Notes==<br />
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The '''National Special Branch Intelligence System''' or '''NSBIS''' was database software used by Special Branch and Counter Terrorism units by British police forces. It is also referred to as the '''National Special Branch Information System'''. It was introduced around 2003, but has since been since superseded by the [[National Common Intelligence Application]].<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/><br />
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It is formally defined as:<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture">[https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/metropolitan-police-service-building-the-picture.pdf Building the Picture: An inspection of police information management], ''HM Inspectorate of Constabulary'', July 2015 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref><br />
:: Information management system used to host information and intelligence gathered in the course of counter-terrorism investigations.<br />
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Rather than being a single database, it was a software which ran on local police services to serve individual units, known as 'instances'. However, NSBIS appears to have incorporated connectivity between the different instances, particularly with one known as NSBIS-N (see below).<br />
<br />
According to a 2020 IOPC report:<ref name="gilbert.2019">Darren Walton, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6812338-Op-Gilbert-Final-Report-for-Publication.htmll Operation Gilbert: Investigation into allegations that members of the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU) illegally accessed the email accounts of environmental campaigners and sympathetic journalists], ''Independent Office for Police Conduct'', 8 November 2019 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> <br />
:: 316.. NSBIS is designed to computerise the functions carried out by Special Branch Groups, Nationality (OVRO), Ports and Special Branch offices. The data is held in a single database with access rights limited only to specified groups of officers for specific reasons. One of these groups of officers was the [National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU)]. Intelligence related to domestic extremist activity, sourced from police forces, counter-terrorism units, industry and open sources, was shared through, organized and recorded on NSBIS.<br />
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NSBIS was distinct from other systems such as the Police National Computer and the Police National Database and could not be accessed through them.<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/> This was so it could store classified and other protectively marked material, marked up to level of 'Secret', which other Metropolitan Police databases were unsuitable for storing.<ref>Either to Government Protective Marking Scheme or its successor protocol, the Government Security Classification Policy.</ref><ref>Mick Creedon, [https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/foi-media/metropolitan-police/priorities_and_how_we_are_doing/corporate/operation-herne---report-3---special-demonstration-squad-reporting-mentions-of-sensitive-campaigns Report 3 - Special Demonstration Squad Reporting: Mentions of Sensitive Campaigns], ''Operation Herne / Metropolitan Police'', July 2014 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> <br />
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Individual Special Branch / Counter Terrorism units were able to customise aspects of it. This lead to 'inconsistent and varied information-recording practices', a weakness which lead to the development of its successor, the [[National Common Intelligence Application]].<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/><br />
<br />
Once the process of transferring to the NCIA has been done, the NSBIS databases will be marked as 'Legacy' databases. Due to their relevance to the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]], they will not be disposed of in line with normal police Review, Retention and Deletion policy. Any access / ownership will still go through the host organisations rather than the Inquiry.<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/><br />
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In the 2000s, NSBIS came under the aegis of the [[National Coordinator for Special Branch]],<ref name="NSBIS.RRD.2008">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-XB-AP-170405-1.pdf NSBIS Review, Retention and Disposal Guide], ''Serco Project Engineering'', 2008 (via ucpi.org.uk as exhibit to the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-WS-1.pdf witness statement of Alistair Pocock]).</ref>, a role managed by the [[Association_of_Chief_Police_Officers_(Terrorism_and_Allied_Matters) | ACPO Terrorism & Allied Matters Committee]].<br />
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==Origins==<br />
<br />
NSBIS appears to have begun as a information management strategy that turned into a computer system incorporating a database developed under the aegis of the Association of Chief Police Officer's [[Association_of_Chief_Police_Officers_(Terrorism_and_Allied_Matters) |Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee]]. <br />
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NSBIS was originally a set of 'national standards for the management of intelligence by the individual special branches'.<ref>CC. Paddy Tomkins, [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldselect/ldeucom/53/4102705.htm Examination of Witnesses (Questions 40-59) Assistant Commissioner David Veness and Chief Constable Paddy Tomkins], ''Committee on European Union (House of Lords)'', 27 October 2004 (accessed 7 June 2020 via Parliament.uk).</ref> <br />
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An earlier incarnation of the system was developed and deployed by private contractor [[Serco]] in the 1990s.<ref>Andrew Hubbard, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewrhubbard/?originalSubdomain=uk Profile], ''LinkedIn.com'', undated (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref><ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016">Jeffery Lamprey, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-WS-1.pdf Witness statement], ''National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters / Metropolitan Police'', 19 December 2016 (accessed 2 June 2020 via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
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NSBIS 2 was developed by Serco Project Engineering, with work starting as early as 1999, for which held contracts to run support services from 2002 to 2012<ref>[https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/112454/response/280437/attach/4/contracts%20to%20be%20published%20externally%20final.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1 Contacts to be published externally], ''Sussex Police'', 16 March 2012 (accessed 1 June 2020 via WhatDoTheyKnow.com).</ref><ref name="mehar.chauhan">Mehar Chauhan, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehar-chauhan-18142b9a/?originalSubdomain=uk Profile], ''LinkedIn.com'', undated (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref><ref name="london.gov.16"/><br />
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A key moment was [[HM Inspectorate of Constabularly]]'s (HMIC) 2003 thematic inspection of Special Branch units, ''A Need to Know''. HMIC noted that Special Branch lacked adequate IT and that 'overall, a Special Branch national IT network would significantly enhance effectiveness, stating:<ref>David Blakey, [https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/media/a-need-to-know-20030101.pdf A Need To Know: HMIC Thematic Inspection of Special Branch and Ports Policing], ''HM Inspectorate of Constabulary'', January 2003 (accessed 7 June 2020).</ref><br />
:: HMIC identified a high priority requirement for a national Special Branch IT programme with commensurate IT development leading to the establishment of a national Special Branch IT network with sufficient terminals in all SB offices and major ports. HMIC is aware and fully supportive of current development work on the second generation National Special Branch Intelligence System (NSBIS2) but also concerned that running costs are likely to inhibit the establishment of a national Special Branch network. ACPO (TAM) has, through the National Special Branch Technology Unit (NSBTU), been developing a National Special Branch Information Management Strategy. [...] <br />
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<br />
The same report found: <br />
:: However the inadequacy of current arrangements cannot be overstated and the development of a national IT strategy for Special Branch and Ports Policing is long overdue. ACPO (TAM) is actively developing IT systems to provide this national network and HMIC encourages all forces to work closely with them in aligning their long term procurement program.<br />
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and HMIC recommended:<br />
:: ... as a matter of priority the Home Office enables identified national Special Branch IT requirements to be implemented and most importantly funded, through a clear, robust, time-tabled strategy.<br />
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As of September 2004 work in relation to it was ongoing Parliament was told that work on NSBIS was ongoing.<ref>CC William Rae, [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldselect/ldeucom/53/4102702.htm Memorandum by Association of Chief Police Officers, Scotland (ACPOS)], ''Select Committee on European Union (House of Lords)'', 9 September 2004 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref><br />
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'''Screenshots from NSBIS Review Retention and Deletion manual'''<ref name="NSBIS.RRD.2008"/><br />
<gallery><br />
File: NSBIS graphic1.png|Review States<br />
File: NSBIS graphic2.png|Adding Nominals<br />
File: NSBIS graphic3.png|Outstanding Reports Review Email<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Particular instances==<br />
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A number of individual forces have confirmed by 2011 they were using NSBIS software including Metropolitan Police,<ref name="london.gov.16"/> Hampshire<ref>[http://www.statewatch.org/observatories_files/drones/uk/police-hampshire-2012-foi-response-art-23-note.pdf Disclosure Log - Jan 2012 - March 2012], ''Hampshire Police'', 1 November 2012 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> and Avon & Somerset.<ref>[https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/it_applications_used FOIA request response: IT applications used], ''Avon & Somerset Police'', 18 April 2012 (accessed 1 June 2012).</ref><br />
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National police units which also used it were the National Ports Analysis Centre, National Ports Unit,<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/> National Ballistic Intelligence Service (NABIS) and the Penalty Notice Processing unit (PentiP<ref>Tom McNulty, [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2007-01-24c.114847.h PentiP System: Home Department written questions], 24 January 2007 (accessed 7 June 2020 via TheyWorkForYou.com).</ref>).<ref name="stainer">Ian Stainer, Enhancing Intelligence-Led Policing: Law Enforcement' Big Data Revolution', in [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DeF6DAAAQBA Big Dat Challenges: Society, Security, Innovation and Ethics], ed. Anno Bunnik, Anthony Cawley, Michael Mulqueen & Andrej Zwitter, Springer, 2016.</ref><br />
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It appears that UK Border Agency used it as well.<ref name="mehar.chauhan"/><br />
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===NSBIS-N===<br />
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There was a national installation referred to as NSBIS-N or 'National NSBIS', which<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/><ref name="london.gov.16">Mention of an NSBIS-N related contract occurs for the financial year 2010-2011. See [https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/system/files/attachments/Appendix%20AC_15.pdf Appendix AC_15.pdf], ''London.gov.uk'', 3 March 2016. However, a 2016 Metropolitan police document notes that the NBSIS-N migration had not started at that point. See [https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/system/files/attachments/Appendix%20T_15.pdf All projects on the DP Portfolio register were reviewed against the agreed set of critera - Appendix T 15], ''Metropolitan Police'', document created 23 March 2016.</ref> <br />
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NSBIS-N only became operational in April 2008, prior to which there was no national installation.<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/> Once it became live, however:<ref name="bjj.2019">Edward Parsons, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6812417-Baroness-Jenny-Jones-Final-Report-for-Publication.html Baroness Jenny Jones: Investigation into the deletion of material relating to Baroness Jenny Jones and/or the Undercover Policing Inquiry], ''Independent Office for Police Conduct'', 14 February 2019 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> <br />
:: When forces input information onto their local NSBIS, this was automatically uploaded to NSBIS-N. While there was an option to prevent this from happening, basic details associated with an entry such as names, addresses and telephone numbers would still be uploaded to NSBIS-N.<br />
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This was alternatively noted as:<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/><br />
:: ... each force or unit installation of NSBIS will include an individual store of data which is not replicated on any other installation of NSBIS save to the extent that<br />
:::1) Limited information providing a trace of each entry will appear on the NSBIS, provided the default option to do so has not been changed by a local force or unit; and<br />
:::2) Individual forces or units chose to transfer information to another force or unit via secure email transfer, and that second force or unit takes the decision to upload it to their installation upon receipt.<br />
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NSBIS-N wass under the control of the [[National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters]].<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/> NCTPHQ is a successor unit to the [[Association_of_Chief_Police_Officers_(Terrorism_and_Allied_Matters) |ACPO Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee]], playing a national lead on counter terrorism and domestic extremism policing. SOURCES. <br />
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Curiously, the Metropolitan Police had search access to NSBIS-N, while neither NCTPOC or the [[Police Service of Northern Ireland]] had any access.<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/><br />
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It appears that some local Special Branch units migrated to the national NSBIS, for example, Gloucestershire and Devon & Cornwall forces, a 2012 document stating:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120830134348/http://www.aspola.org.uk/cache/PDF/Document6643_703264.pdf Report of the Chief Constable - Strategic Alliances], ''Avon and Somerset Police Authority'', 28 March 2012 (accessed via Archive.org).</ref><br />
:: SB in both Glos and D&C will migrate to the national SB intelligence system (NSBIS) during March 2013, ensuring all forces in the region utilise the same IT system and lay the foundation for regional secure IT connectivity.<br />
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[[Image:NCSB units structure(v1).png|500px|frame]]<br />
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===NCTPOC / CTPNOC NSBIS===<br />
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This instance of NSBIS is used by the National Counter Terrorism Policing Operations Command (NCTPOC) - now named the [[Counter Terrorism Policing National Operational Command]] (CTPNOC).<ref name="pocock.6-4-17"/> Though CTPNOC is hosted by the Metropolitan Police, the CTPNOC NBSIS is located on different servers and operates independently of SO15 NBSIS.<ref name="pocock.6-4-17"/><br />
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According to a statement of Michael Killeen, head of intelligence for CTPNOC:<ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><br />
:: 102. ... NCTPOC uses guidance provided by the College of Policing in the national standards of Intelligence Management and MoPI to guide whether to input information, and in what format, onto NSBIS.<br />
:: 103. NCTPOC staff members are expected to work in accordance with the principles of Intelligence Management as a whole but paragraph 2.3 of the Intelligence report section of Intelligence Management states:<br />
::: OFFICIAL Information content ... Information should be for a policing purpose. It should be clear, concise and without abbreviations. The information must be of value and understood without the need to refer to other information sources. The body of the report should give no indication of the nature of the source, whether human or technical, or the proximity of the source to the information.<br />
:: 104. Information recorded on NSBIS is expected to comply with these requirements.<br />
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===SO15 NSBIS===<br />
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In late 2011, [[Counter Terorism Command]] (SO15), within the Metropolitan Police, adopted its own version of NSBIS, held within the Intelligence Management and Operation Support unit. There it interfaces with legacy systems used for the digitising of the indices for the old [[Special Branch Registry]].<ref name="pocock.6-4-17">Det. Insp. Alistair Pocock, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-WS-1.pdf Witness statement], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 6 April 2017, incorporating statement of 3 January 2017 (accessed via Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
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A 2015 SO15 briefing wrote:<ref name="d754">Appendix A to SO15 report dated 11th June 2015 concerning Information Risks in SO15. Appears in [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/D754-BRIEFING-RE-MANAGEMENT-OF-INFORMATION-WITHIN-SO15.pdf Exhibit D754: Debriefing re Management of Information within SO15], ''Metropolitan Police'', June 2015, (accessed via ucpi.org.uk, appended to a [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals_name/neil-hutchinson/ witness statement of Det. Supt. Neil Huchison]).</ref><br />
:: This system contains all intelligence reports received into the London Intelligence Unit since December 2011 when NSBIS was adopted. When the system is interrogated to establish how many reports it contains the database is so large the document search fails - 4,000 reports were added in July 2014 and we've had the system since December 2011. In addition all the data from the preceding [[Special Branch Registry |BRS]] is also stored in the database. Analysis of audit figures gives a best guess suggesting there are approximately 800,000 identifiable records.<br />
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===Domestic Extremism===<br />
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[[Image:NSBIS NPOIU.png|200px|thumb|NPOIU Version history (via statement of Jeffrey Lamprey)]]<br />
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The history of the [[National Domestic Extremism Unit|national domestic extremism units]] is convoluted one and is covered in a separate article. An early unit, the [[National Public Order Intelligence Unit]], created an instance of NSBIS in August 2006.SOURCE: HMIC 2012 & 2013<ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-XB-JL-161103-1.pdf NCTPOC (NDEDIU) NSBIS versions used history], ''NCTPOC / Metropolitan Police'', undated (accessed via ucpi.org.uk where it is an exhibit to the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-WS-1.pdfwitness statement of Jeffrey Lamprey]).</ref> This became what is generally referred to as the National Domestic Extremism Database]].<br />
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When the national domestic extremism units passed to control of the Metropolitan Police in 2011, the database was continued, the controlling unit renamed National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU) and subsequent renamings / re-structurings.<ref name="killeen.3-1-17">Det. Supt. Michael Killeen, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Killeen-WS-1.pdf Witness statement], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 1 January 2017 - incorporating statements of 22 June 2016 and extension of 20 September 2016 (accessed via Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.tuk).</ref> <ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6596674-National-Police-Units-Which-Provide-Intelligence.html A review of progress made against the recommendations in HMIC’s 2012 report on the national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest], ''HM Inspectorate of Constabulary'', June 2013 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref>NDEDIU has since been submerged into CTPNOC,<ref name="pocock.6-4-17"/> though the function has remained.<br />
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In May 2014, NDEDIU (as it still was) initiated a new instance of NSBIS. This was because the list of records marked for review in light of HM Inspectorate of Constabulary investigations critical of the large volume of material being retained,<ref name="bjj.2019"/> had become so large it caused the system to lock and ceased functioning properly. As a result a new database was started, and the 2006 database began being referred to as the Legacy database. <ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><ref name="bjj.2019"/><br />
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For the 2014 database, the NDEDIU manually migrated over records over from the 2006 Legacy database. These records were chosen in light of relevant Metropolitan Police policies on information Review, Retention and Deletion (RRD). The Legacy database can still be accessed for certain purposes, including the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]].<ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><br />
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The new NSBIS database 'contains material relating to domestic extremism and strategic public order'. This includes intelligence reports and nominals.<ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><br />
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According to one report:<ref name="bjj.2019"/><br />
:: On local installations of NSBIS, there was an option for forces to pass information uploaded directly to NDEDIU's installation of NSBIS, if they considered it relevant to the NDEDIU's role of assessing intelligence relating to domestic extremism.<br />
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==='Fairway'===<br />
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Various references to a national Fairway database can be found.<br />
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In 2008, Fairway was a [[Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre]] project which:<ref>Ch. Insp. Geoff Bishop, [http://www.statewatch.org/news/2009/jan/uk-met-stop-and-search-s44-terr-act-2000.pdf Section 44 Terrorism Act 2000: Standard Operation Procedures], ''Metropolitan Police'', 7 February 2008 (archived by Statewatch.org).</ref><br />
:: produces a variety of reports tailored to meet the needs of individual customer departments. These are sanitised intelligence reports that are disseminated to a wide range of Police customers via Special Branches. They are predominantly intended for use as background briefing documents among officers and staff engaged in operations duties, in order to heighten awareness of the current international terrorist threat.1012<br />
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Fairway has been referred to as 'the umbrella title given to various work streams which feed into an intelligence database designed to counter terrorism in its earliest stages of planning', and:<ref>[https://www.logisticshandling.com/articles/2010/06/28/1012-logistics-security-scrutinised-at-dhl-reliance Logistics security scrutinised at DHL & Reliance conference], ''Logistics Handling (trade newsletter)'', 28 June 2010 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> <br />
:: The programme asks police officers and security personnel to be aware of the constant threat of terrorism and feed any gathered intelligence, including any concerns regarding individuals behaviour, to their local Special Branch for inclusion on to the National Fairway database.<br />
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The Fairway database was also used to record details of journalists and photographers, linking it to the [[National Domestic Extremism Database]].<ref>Jules Mattsson, [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/medianews/article4263693.ece Journalists named on secret files, police admit], ''The Times'', 11 November 2014 (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref> Given the national remit of Fairway, it would appear the database it fed into is likely the National NSBIS above.<br />
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==Resources==<br />
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'''Related articles'''<br />
* [[National Domestic Extremism Database]].<br />
* [[National Domestic Extremism Unit]]<br />
* [[National Common Intelligence Application]]<br />
* [[Special Branch Registry]]<br />
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'''External documents'''<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-WS-1.pdf Witness statement of Det. Insp. Alistair Pocock], 2017 (via ucpi.org.uk)<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-XB-AP-170405-1.pdf NSBIS Review, Retention and Disposal Guide], 2008 (via ucpi.org.uk)<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-XB-JL-161103-2.pdf NBSIS Weeding Overview, undated (via ucpi.org.uk)]<ref>Post June 2012, when NSBIS was upgraded to version 4.2. See [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-XB-JL-161103-1.pdf NCTPOC (NDEDIU NSBIS Versions Used History], ''NCTPOC / Metropolitan Police'', undated (accessed via ucpi.org.uk where it is an exhibit to the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-WS-1.pdf witness statement of Jeffrey Lamprey]).</ref><br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Cox-XB-RC-281116-1.pdf Business case for new NDEDIU NSBIS instance, 25 October 2013] (via ucpi.org.uk)<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-XB-JL-161103-3.pdf ACPO TAM Intelligence Systems Services - ISS Pre Transformation Visit to NDEDIU, Monday 24th March to Friday 28th March 2014 v1.1] (via ucpi.org.uk)<br />
* [https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.70/561.6fe.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NDEDIU-Nominal-Creation-Policy-v8-Redacted.pdf NDEDIU Nominal Creation Policy], 2013 (via Netpol.org)<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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<references/></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=National_Special_Branch_Information_System&diff=257634National Special Branch Information System2021-08-27T14:02:54Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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The '''National Special Branch Intelligence System''' or '''NSBIS''' was database software used by Special Branch and Counter Terrorism units by British police forces. It is also referred to as the '''National Special Branch Information System'''. It was introduced around 2003, but has since been since superseded by the [[National Common Intelligence Application]].<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/><br />
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It is formally defined as:<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture">[https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/metropolitan-police-service-building-the-picture.pdf Building the Picture: An inspection of police information management], ''HM Inspectorate of Constabulary'', July 2015 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref><br />
:: Information management system used to host information and intelligence gathered in the course of counter-terrorism investigations.<br />
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Rather than being a single database, it was a software which ran on local police services to serve individual units, known as 'instances'. However, NSBIS appears to have incorporated connectivity between the different instances, particularly with one known as NSBIS-N (see below).<br />
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According to a 2020 IOPC report:<ref name="gilbert.2019">Darren Walton, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6812338-Op-Gilbert-Final-Report-for-Publication.htmll Operation Gilbert: Investigation into allegations that members of the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU) illegally accessed the email accounts of environmental campaigners and sympathetic journalists], ''Independent Office for Police Conduct'', 8 November 2019 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> <br />
:: 316.. NSBIS is designed to computerise the functions carried out by Special Branch Groups, Nationality (OVRO), Ports and Special Branch offices. The data is held in a single database with access rights limited only to specified groups of officers for specific reasons. One of these groups of officers was the [National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU)]. Intelligence related to domestic extremist activity, sourced from police forces, counter-terrorism units, industry and open sources, was shared through, organized and recorded on NSBIS.<br />
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NSBIS was distinct from other systems such as the Police National Computer and the Police National Database and could not be accessed through them.<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/> This was so it could store classified and other protectively marked material, marked up to level of 'Secret', which other Metropolitan Police databases were unsuitable for storing.<ref>Either to Government Protective Marking Scheme or its successor protocol, the Government Security Classification Policy.</ref><ref>Mick Creedon, [https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/foi-media/metropolitan-police/priorities_and_how_we_are_doing/corporate/operation-herne---report-3---special-demonstration-squad-reporting-mentions-of-sensitive-campaigns Report 3 - Special Demonstration Squad Reporting: Mentions of Sensitive Campaigns], ''Operation Herne / Metropolitan Police'', July 2014 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> <br />
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Individual Special Branch / Counter Terrorism units were able to customise aspects of it. This lead to 'inconsistent and varied information-recording practices', a weakness which lead to the development of its successor, the [[National Common Intelligence Application]].<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/><br />
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Once the process of transferring to the NCIA has been done, the NSBIS databases will be marked as 'Legacy' databases. Due to their relevance to the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]], they will not be disposed of in line with normal police Review, Retention and Deletion policy. Any access / ownership will still go through the host organisations rather than the Inquiry.<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/><br />
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In the 2000s, NSBIS came under the aegis of the [[National Coordinator for Special Branch]],<ref name="NSBIS.RRD.2008">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-XB-AP-170405-1.pdf NSBIS Review, Retention and Disposal Guide], ''Serco Project Engineering'', 2008 (via ucpi.org.uk as exhibit to the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-WS-1.pdf witness statement of Alistair Pocock]).</ref>, a role managed by the [[Association_of_Chief_Police_Officers_(Terrorism_and_Allied_Matters) | ACPO Terrorism & Allied Matters Committee]].<br />
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==Origins==<br />
<br />
NSBIS appears to have begun as a information management strategy that turned into a computer system incorporating a database developed under the aegis of the Association of Chief Police Officer's [[Association_of_Chief_Police_Officers_(Terrorism_and_Allied_Matters) |Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee]]. <br />
<br />
NSBIS was originally a set of 'national standards for the management of intelligence by the individual special branches'.<ref>CC. Paddy Tomkins, [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldselect/ldeucom/53/4102705.htm Examination of Witnesses (Questions 40-59) Assistant Commissioner David Veness and Chief Constable Paddy Tomkins], ''Committee on European Union (House of Lords)'', 27 October 2004 (accessed 7 June 2020 via Parliament.uk).</ref> <br />
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An earlier incarnation of the system was developed and deployed by private contractor [[Serco]] in the 1990s.<ref>Andrew Hubbard, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewrhubbard/?originalSubdomain=uk Profile], ''LinkedIn.com'', undated (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref><ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016">Jeffery Lamprey, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-WS-1.pdf Witness statement], ''National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters / Metropolitan Police'', 19 December 2016 (accessed 2 June 2020 via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
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NSBIS 2 was developed by Serco Project Engineering, with work starting as early as 1999, for which held contracts to run support services from 2002 to 2012<ref>[https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/112454/response/280437/attach/4/contracts%20to%20be%20published%20externally%20final.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1 Contacts to be published externally], ''Sussex Police'', 16 March 2012 (accessed 1 June 2020 via WhatDoTheyKnow.com).</ref><ref name="mehar.chauhan">Mehar Chauhan, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehar-chauhan-18142b9a/?originalSubdomain=uk Profile], ''LinkedIn.com'', undated (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref><ref name="london.gov.16"/><br />
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A key moment was [[HM Inspectorate of Constabularly]]'s (HMIC) 2003 thematic inspection of Special Branch units, ''A Need to Know''. HMIC noted that Special Branch lacked adequate IT and that 'overall, a Special Branch national IT network would significantly enhance effectiveness, stating:<ref>David Blakey, [https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/media/a-need-to-know-20030101.pdf A Need To Know: HMIC Thematic Inspection of Special Branch and Ports Policing], ''HM Inspectorate of Constabulary'', January 2003 (accessed 7 June 2020).</ref><br />
:: HMIC identified a high priority requirement for a national Special Branch IT programme with commensurate IT development leading to the establishment of a national Special Branch IT network with sufficient terminals in all SB offices and major ports. HMIC is aware and fully supportive of current development work on the second generation National Special Branch Intelligence System (NSBIS2) but also concerned that running costs are likely to inhibit the establishment of a national Special Branch network. ACPO (TAM) has, through the National Special Branch Technology Unit (NSBTU), been developing a National Special Branch Information Management Strategy. [...] <br />
<br />
<br />
The same report found: <br />
:: However the inadequacy of current arrangements cannot be overstated and the development of a national IT strategy for Special Branch and Ports Policing is long overdue. ACPO (TAM) is actively developing IT systems to provide this national network and HMIC encourages all forces to work closely with them in aligning their long term procurement program.<br />
<br />
and HMIC recommended:<br />
:: ... as a matter of priority the Home Office enables identified national Special Branch IT requirements to be implemented and most importantly funded, through a clear, robust, time-tabled strategy.<br />
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As of September 2004 work in relation to it was ongoing Parliament was told that work on NSBIS was ongoing.<ref>CC William Rae, [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldselect/ldeucom/53/4102702.htm Memorandum by Association of Chief Police Officers, Scotland (ACPOS)], ''Select Committee on European Union (House of Lords)'', 9 September 2004 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref><br />
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'''Screenshots from NSBIS Review Retention and Deletion manual'''<ref name="NSBIS.RRD.2008"/><br />
<gallery><br />
File: NSBIS graphic1.png|Review States<br />
File: NSBIS graphic2.png|Adding Nominals<br />
File: NSBIS graphic3.png|Outstanding Reports Review Email<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Particular instances==<br />
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A number of individual forces have confirmed by 2011 they were using NSBIS software including Metropolitan Police,<ref name="london.gov.16"/> Hampshire<ref>[http://www.statewatch.org/observatories_files/drones/uk/police-hampshire-2012-foi-response-art-23-note.pdf Disclosure Log - Jan 2012 - March 2012], ''Hampshire Police'', 1 November 2012 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> and Avon & Somerset.<ref>[https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/it_applications_used FOIA request response: IT applications used], ''Avon & Somerset Police'', 18 April 2012 (accessed 1 June 2012).</ref><br />
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National police units which also used it were the National Ports Analysis Centre, National Ports Unit,<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/> National Ballistic Intelligence Service (NABIS) and the Penalty Notice Processing unit (PentiP<ref>Tom McNulty, [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2007-01-24c.114847.h PentiP System: Home Department written questions], 24 January 2007 (accessed 7 June 2020 via TheyWorkForYou.com).</ref>).<ref name="stainer">Ian Stainer, Enhancing Intelligence-Led Policing: Law Enforcement' Big Data Revolution', in [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DeF6DAAAQBA Big Dat Challenges: Society, Security, Innovation and Ethics], ed. Anno Bunnik, Anthony Cawley, Michael Mulqueen & Andrej Zwitter, Springer, 2016.</ref><br />
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It appears that UK Border Agency used it as well.<ref name="mehar.chauhan"/><br />
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===NSBIS-N===<br />
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There was a national installation referred to as NSBIS-N or 'National NSBIS', which<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/><ref name="london.gov.16">Mention of an NSBIS-N related contract occurs for the financial year 2010-2011. See [https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/system/files/attachments/Appendix%20AC_15.pdf Appendix AC_15.pdf], ''London.gov.uk'', 3 March 2016. However, a 2016 Metropolitan police document notes that the NBSIS-N migration had not started at that point. See [https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/system/files/attachments/Appendix%20T_15.pdf All projects on the DP Portfolio register were reviewed against the agreed set of critera - Appendix T 15], ''Metropolitan Police'', document created 23 March 2016.</ref> <br />
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NSBIS-N only became operational in April 2008, prior to which there was no national installation.<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/> Once it became live, however:<ref name="bjj.2019">Edward Parsons, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6812417-Baroness-Jenny-Jones-Final-Report-for-Publication.html Baroness Jenny Jones: Investigation into the deletion of material relating to Baroness Jenny Jones and/or the Undercover Policing Inquiry], ''Independent Office for Police Conduct'', 14 February 2019 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> <br />
:: When forces input information onto their local NSBIS, this was automatically uploaded to NSBIS-N. While there was an option to prevent this from happening, basic details associated with an entry such as names, addresses and telephone numbers would still be uploaded to NSBIS-N.<br />
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This was alternatively noted as:<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/><br />
:: ... each force or unit installation of NSBIS will include an individual store of data which is not replicated on any other installation of NSBIS save to the extent that<br />
:::1) Limited information providing a trace of each entry will appear on the NSBIS, provided the default option to do so has not been changed by a local force or unit; and<br />
:::2) Individual forces or units chose to transfer information to another force or unit via secure email transfer, and that second force or unit takes the decision to upload it to their installation upon receipt.<br />
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NSBIS-N wass under the control of the [[National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters]].<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/> NCTPHQ is a successor unit to the [[Association_of_Chief_Police_Officers_(Terrorism_and_Allied_Matters) |ACPO Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee]], playing a national lead on counter terrorism and domestic extremism policing. SOURCES. <br />
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Curiously, the Metropolitan Police had search access to NSBIS-N, while neither NCTPOC or the [[Police Service of Northern Ireland]] had any access.<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/><br />
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It appears that some local Special Branch units migrated to the national NSBIS, for example, Gloucestershire and Devon & Cornwall forces, a 2012 document stating:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120830134348/http://www.aspola.org.uk/cache/PDF/Document6643_703264.pdf Report of the Chief Constable - Strategic Alliances], ''Avon and Somerset Police Authority'', 28 March 2012 (accessed via Archive.org).</ref><br />
:: SB in both Glos and D&C will migrate to the national SB intelligence system (NSBIS) during March 2013, ensuring all forces in the region utilise the same IT system and lay the foundation for regional secure IT connectivity.<br />
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===NCTPOC / CTPNOC NSBIS===<br />
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This instance of NSBIS is used by the National Counter Terrorism Policing Operations Command (NCTPOC) - now named the [[Counter Terrorism Policing National Operational Command]] (CTPNOC).<ref name="pocock.6-4-17"/> Though CTPNOC is hosted by the Metropolitan Police, the CTPNOC NBSIS is located on different servers and operates independently of SO15 NBSIS.<ref name="pocock.6-4-17"/><br />
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According to a statement of Michael Killeen, head of intelligence for CTPNOC:<ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><br />
:: 102. ... NCTPOC uses guidance provided by the College of Policing in the national standards of Intelligence Management and MoPI to guide whether to input information, and in what format, onto NSBIS.<br />
:: 103. NCTPOC staff members are expected to work in accordance with the principles of Intelligence Management as a whole but paragraph 2.3 of the Intelligence report section of Intelligence Management states:<br />
::: OFFICIAL Information content ... Information should be for a policing purpose. It should be clear, concise and without abbreviations. The information must be of value and understood without the need to refer to other information sources. The body of the report should give no indication of the nature of the source, whether human or technical, or the proximity of the source to the information.<br />
:: 104. Information recorded on NSBIS is expected to comply with these requirements.<br />
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===SO15 NSBIS===<br />
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In late 2011, [[Counter Terorism Command]] (SO15), within the Metropolitan Police, adopted its own version of NSBIS, held within the Intelligence Management and Operation Support unit. There it interfaces with legacy systems used for the digitising of the indices for the old [[Special Branch Registry]].<ref name="pocock.6-4-17">Det. Insp. Alistair Pocock, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-WS-1.pdf Witness statement], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 6 April 2017, incorporating statement of 3 January 2017 (accessed via Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
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A 2015 SO15 briefing wrote:<ref name="d754">Appendix A to SO15 report dated 11th June 2015 concerning Information Risks in SO15. Appears in [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/D754-BRIEFING-RE-MANAGEMENT-OF-INFORMATION-WITHIN-SO15.pdf Exhibit D754: Debriefing re Management of Information within SO15], ''Metropolitan Police'', June 2015, (accessed via ucpi.org.uk, appended to a [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals_name/neil-hutchinson/ witness statement of Det. Supt. Neil Huchison]).</ref><br />
:: This system contains all intelligence reports received into the London Intelligence Unit since December 2011 when NSBIS was adopted. When the system is interrogated to establish how many reports it contains the database is so large the document search fails - 4,000 reports were added in July 2014 and we've had the system since December 2011. In addition all the data from the preceding [[Special Branch Registry |BRS]] is also stored in the database. Analysis of audit figures gives a best guess suggesting there are approximately 800,000 identifiable records.<br />
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===Domestic Extremism===<br />
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[[Image:NSBIS NPOIU.png|200px|thumb|NPOIU Version history (via statement of Jeffrey Lamprey)]]<br />
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The history of the [[National Domestic Extremism Unit|national domestic extremism units]] is convoluted one and is covered in a separate article. An early unit, the [[National Public Order Intelligence Unit]], created an instance of NSBIS in August 2006.SOURCE: HMIC 2012 & 2013<ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-XB-JL-161103-1.pdf NCTPOC (NDEDIU) NSBIS versions used history], ''NCTPOC / Metropolitan Police'', undated (accessed via ucpi.org.uk where it is an exhibit to the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-WS-1.pdfwitness statement of Jeffrey Lamprey]).</ref> This became what is generally referred to as the National Domestic Extremism Database]].<br />
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When the national domestic extremism units passed to control of the Metropolitan Police in 2011, the database was continued, the controlling unit renamed National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU) and subsequent renamings / re-structurings.<ref name="killeen.3-1-17">Det. Supt. Michael Killeen, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Killeen-WS-1.pdf Witness statement], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 1 January 2017 - incorporating statements of 22 June 2016 and extension of 20 September 2016 (accessed via Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.tuk).</ref> <ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6596674-National-Police-Units-Which-Provide-Intelligence.html A review of progress made against the recommendations in HMIC’s 2012 report on the national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest], ''HM Inspectorate of Constabulary'', June 2013 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref>NDEDIU has since been submerged into CTPNOC,<ref name="pocock.6-4-17"/> though the function has remained.<br />
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In May 2014, NDEDIU (as it still was) initiated a new instance of NSBIS. This was because the list of records marked for review in light of HM Inspectorate of Constabulary investigations critical of the large volume of material being retained,<ref name="bjj.2019"/> had become so large it caused the system to lock and ceased functioning properly. As a result a new database was started, and the 2006 database began being referred to as the Legacy database. <ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><ref name="bjj.2019"/><br />
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For the 2014 database, the NDEDIU manually migrated over records over from the 2006 Legacy database. These records were chosen in light of relevant Metropolitan Police policies on information Review, Retention and Deletion (RRD). The Legacy database can still be accessed for certain purposes, including the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]].<ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><br />
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The new NSBIS database 'contains material relating to domestic extremism and strategic public order'. This includes intelligence reports and nominals.<ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><br />
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According to one report:<ref name="bjj.2019"/><br />
:: On local installations of NSBIS, there was an option for forces to pass information uploaded directly to NDEDIU's installation of NSBIS, if they considered it relevant to the NDEDIU's role of assessing intelligence relating to domestic extremism.<br />
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==='Fairway'===<br />
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Various references to a national Fairway database can be found.<br />
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In 2008, Fairway was a [[Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre]] project which:<ref>Ch. Insp. Geoff Bishop, [http://www.statewatch.org/news/2009/jan/uk-met-stop-and-search-s44-terr-act-2000.pdf Section 44 Terrorism Act 2000: Standard Operation Procedures], ''Metropolitan Police'', 7 February 2008 (archived by Statewatch.org).</ref><br />
:: produces a variety of reports tailored to meet the needs of individual customer departments. These are sanitised intelligence reports that are disseminated to a wide range of Police customers via Special Branches. They are predominantly intended for use as background briefing documents among officers and staff engaged in operations duties, in order to heighten awareness of the current international terrorist threat.1012<br />
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Fairway has been referred to as 'the umbrella title given to various work streams which feed into an intelligence database designed to counter terrorism in its earliest stages of planning', and:<ref>[https://www.logisticshandling.com/articles/2010/06/28/1012-logistics-security-scrutinised-at-dhl-reliance Logistics security scrutinised at DHL & Reliance conference], ''Logistics Handling (trade newsletter)'', 28 June 2010 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> <br />
:: The programme asks police officers and security personnel to be aware of the constant threat of terrorism and feed any gathered intelligence, including any concerns regarding individuals behaviour, to their local Special Branch for inclusion on to the National Fairway database.<br />
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The Fairway database was also used to record details of journalists and photographers, linking it to the [[National Domestic Extremism Database]].<ref>Jules Mattsson, [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/medianews/article4263693.ece Journalists named on secret files, police admit], ''The Times'', 11 November 2014 (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref> Given the national remit of Fairway, it would appear the database it fed into is likely the National NSBIS above.<br />
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==Resources==<br />
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'''Related articles'''<br />
* [[National Domestic Extremism Database]].<br />
* [[National Domestic Extremism Unit]]<br />
* [[National Common Intelligence Application]]<br />
* [[Special Branch Registry]]<br />
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'''External documents'''<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-WS-1.pdf Witness statement of Det. Insp. Alistair Pocock], 2017 (via ucpi.org.uk)<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-XB-AP-170405-1.pdf NSBIS Review, Retention and Disposal Guide], 2008 (via ucpi.org.uk)<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-XB-JL-161103-2.pdf NBSIS Weeding Overview, undated (via ucpi.org.uk)]<ref>Post June 2012, when NSBIS was upgraded to version 4.2. See [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-XB-JL-161103-1.pdf NCTPOC (NDEDIU NSBIS Versions Used History], ''NCTPOC / Metropolitan Police'', undated (accessed via ucpi.org.uk where it is an exhibit to the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-WS-1.pdf witness statement of Jeffrey Lamprey]).</ref><br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Cox-XB-RC-281116-1.pdf Business case for new NDEDIU NSBIS instance, 25 October 2013] (via ucpi.org.uk)<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-XB-JL-161103-3.pdf ACPO TAM Intelligence Systems Services - ISS Pre Transformation Visit to NDEDIU, Monday 24th March to Friday 28th March 2014 v1.1] (via ucpi.org.uk)<br />
* [https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.70/561.6fe.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NDEDIU-Nominal-Creation-Policy-v8-Redacted.pdf NDEDIU Nominal Creation Policy], 2013 (via Netpol.org)<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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<references/></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Dick_Epps_(alias)&diff=257569Dick Epps (alias)2021-06-10T15:06:28Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name='HN336'|Alias=Dick Epps|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=late 1968 to mid 1970|Targets=International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, British Communist Party}}<br />
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'''Dick Epps''' is the cover name used by a former undercover officer with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] who was deployed into the International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party late 1968 to mid 1970. They appeared on ''True Spies'' programme under the pseudonym 'Dan' with the approval of senior officers.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).</ref><br />
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For the purposes of the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] and [[Operation Herne]], they are also referred to by the cipher HN336 (for the N cipher system see [[N officers]]). The Inquiry has ruled that the officer's real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
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==As an SDS officer==<br />
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Joined the Metropolitan police Special Branch in 1964.<ref name = Taylor/> Deployed 1969-1972, targeting the International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and peripherally the British Communist Party, providing intelligence on other groups. None of them still exist. No allegation of misconduct known. Appeared on ''True Spies'' programme under the pseudonym 'Dan' with the approval of senior officers.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> A 27 Feb 2018 email named his targets as the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.<ref name="email.ucpi.27feb2018"/> Following his SDS deployment, worked in the port section and the Industrial Intelligence Section.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180302-HN336-gist_of_additional_information-1.pdf Inquiry's gist of additional information within the evidence supporting HN336's application for restriction order over real name only - provided to permit argument on facts that have not been considered by the Inquiry to date], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 March 2018 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk 10 March 2018).</ref><br />
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==Appearance in ''True Spies''==<br />
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The officer, under the alias 'Dan', makes a number of appearances in the first episode of ''True Spies'', the 2002 BBC Two documentary series on the Special Demonstration Squad.<ref name="truespies.1">[https://vimeo.com/83980556 True Spies - Episode 1: Subverting the subversives], ''BBC Two'', 27 October 2002; [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2642522-Transcript-True-Spies-E1-Proofed-Transcript.html transcripts].</ref><br />
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On the founding of the Special Demonstration Squad in the wake of the March 1968 anti-Vietnam War protests:<br />
:: <u>Commentary</u>: Grosvenor Square shook the Secret State because of the global context of the time. Ever since the onset of the Cold War, MI5 had been worried about Soviet penetration of British political life.<br />
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:: <u>Dan</u>: A quite senior officer warned that in his view it was quite likely that in ten years Britain could become a Communist State.<br />
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The programme goes on to interiew Tariq Ali, then of the International Marxist Group and a leading organiser of the protests (now also a core participant in the Undercover Public Inquiry<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180607-ruling_core_participants_19.pdf Core Partiicpants: Ruling 19], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 June 2018.</ref>).<br />
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:: <u>Commentary</u>: But Tariq Ali was also a top target for the Hairies. One of them had infiltrated the IMG and managed to get hold of the keys to its headquarters.<br />
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:: <u>Dan</u>: I was aware that some of the keys that I was holding when I was babysitting those offices gave access to offices that we, or the Security Service, might be interested in, so I was able to take pressings of all the keys.<br />
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:: <u>Interviewer</u>: Pressings?<br />
:: <u>Dan</u>: Yes, pressing into plasticine for the copies to be made.<br />
:: <u>Interviewer</u>: And you just happened to have the plasticine handy did you?<br />
:: <u>Dan</u>: I had an idea that I might have an opportunity so I took some with me.<br />
:: <u>Interviewer</u>: And then?<br />
:: <u>Dan</u>: And then the offices were subsequently visited on another occasion.<br />
:: <u>Commentary</u>: The keys were passed on to the 'visitors' and the 'visitors' - presumably MI5 - turned them and got in. The purpose of such intrusions was to spy on what the organisation was up to.<br />
:: <u>Interviewer</u>: He made the impression of the key in a block of plasticine that he just happened to have in his pocket.<br />
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He also discusses becoming a subject of suspicion by the group:<br />
:: <u>Commentary</u>: It was a dangerous world out there and the Hairies lived with the abiding fear of being compromised. On one occasion, a telephone tap revealed that a Hairy was suspected by the group he'd infiltrated. He was warned to expect a grilling.<br />
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:: <u>Dan</u>: After the meeting I was invited to a pub - and I remember drinking something in the region of 9 or 10 pints of beer. I was very concerned that I was getting the point where my guard would slip, that I would reveal something which would give something away or expose a colleague and I remember my mind seeming to stay ice cold. The rest of me felt like jelly but they had drunk along with me so they were showing considerable signs of wear as well, and I don't know if I satisfied them or not but I was allowed to go and then I was met shortly afterwards by a colleague, then I just collapsed. I was absolutely drunk as a skunk, but I'd held it together until then.<br />
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:: <u>Commentary</u>: Many of the Hairies relished the adrenalin rush that came with the job. Their years undercover were the best of their police careers. But for a few, the pressure was unbearable. <br />
:: <u>Interviewer</u>: Did you decide that after that experience enough was enough?<br />
:: <u>Dan</u>: Yes I did. Yes. Yes I had a family to consider and it was taking its toll on those relationships. It was time to stop.<br />
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On the anti-Apartheid 'Stop the '70 Tour' campaign:<br />
:: <u>Dan</u>: I remember meeting with a senior officer at Scotland Yard and I said there would be an awful lot of blood spilled on the streets of London, and that was the view that was held in some circles at that time within the police service.'<br />
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Later on he is quoted on the industrial unrest of the time:<br />
:: <u>Commentary</u>: Through the late 60s and early 70s industrial unrest gripped the country - from the coalfields to the docks. MI5 and Special Branch had no doubt the hand of the communists lay behind it.<br />
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:: <u>Dan</u>: We were going through a lot of unrest in the docks, in the print, in Ford and other motor works. A lot of big threats to the stability of our society. So at some stages, it felt as if you were paddling in a pool of subversion.<br />
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Peter Taylor, the director of ''True Spies'', also wrote an article to promote the series for ''The Guardian'' in which Dan featured.<ref name = Taylor>Peter Taylor, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/oct/23/ukcrime.immigrationpolicy Inside job], ''The Guardian'', 23 October 2002 (accessed October 2019)</ref> Part of the article just repeates what Dan said in the series, but there is some new information as well:<br />
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::When Dan joined the Metropolitan police Special Branch in 1964, he was astonished when a senior officer warned that it was "quite likely that in 10 years Britain could become a Communist state". The new police recruits were being introduced to the subversive agenda of the Communist party of Great Britain, the prototype "enemy within". Its intention, they were told, was to use the trade unions as a revolutionary instrument to undermine parliamentary democracy. "It felt as if you were paddling in a pool of subversion," Dan says. Soon the pool deepened as the Vietnam war radicalised thousands of young people and swelled the ranks of Trotskyite organisations.<br />
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On Dan infiltrating the International Marxist Group (IMG) 'as the Vietnam war raged', Peter Taylor seems slightly ambiguous. He writes that Dan had 'infiltrated the fringes of the IMG, spent a few evenings baby-sitting the offices of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, an offshoot of the IMG.' However, the baby-sitting gave Dan the opportunity to copy the keys, as was explained in the series, 'The offices, he says, were subsequently "visited", presumably by MI5 who normally did burglaries'. <br />
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Tariq Ali says he felt betrayed, '[b]ut Dan has no regrets about what he did. "There was always a policeman within me, so I didn't have a problem about exposing people if necessary." All the hairies agree. Betrayal was part of the job description.'<br />
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After having survived the ordeal of a confrontation, Dan decided enough was enough, saying: 'On reflection, I didn't enjoy it'.<br />
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* For more on Special Branch cooperating with ''True Spies'', see Eveline Lubbers, [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/true-spies-story/ BBC ''True Spies'' series: Police happy to disclose information when it suits them], SpecialBranchFiles.uk project, 24 March 2016.<br />
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==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
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* 14 November 2017: Minded-to - Real name cannot be published; cover name will be published.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> <br />
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* 27 Feb 2018: cover name and target groups released by the Inquiry.<ref name="email.ucpi.27feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180227_UCPI_all_CPs HN336_cover_name', ''Undercover Research Group'', 27 February 2018, referencing an update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
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* 5 March 2018: provisional decision restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.5Mar18"/><br />
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* 21 March 2018: application to restrict real name heard in public.<ref name="ucpi.pr.5Mar18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180305-press-notice-documents-for-hearing-on-21-Mar-2018.pdf Press notice - Publication of documents relating to Special Demonstration Squad anonymity applications for hearing on 21 March 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 March 2018.</ref><br />
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* 27 March 2018: ruling: real name name cannot be published. In granting this, Mitting wrote:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling5.27Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Final-ruling-following-21-March-hearing.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad Ruling 5 ], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 27 March 2018.</ref><br />
:: He believes that if his real name were to be published he would attract media attention which may be intrusive. His concern is not irrational. Publication of his cover name, which has occurred, will permit any member still living of the groups with whom he was involved to give evidence about him. Publication of his real name would serve no useful purpose. The infringement of his right to respect for his private and family life and that of his family would not be justified under Article 8(2) ECHR.<br />
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'''Inquiry documents:''' [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180302-HN336_open_application_for_restriction_order-1.pdf Open restriction order application] &amp; [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180302-HN336-gist_of_additional_information-1.pdf 'open gist of additional information'].<br />
==Notes==<br />
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This page carries a full list of publicly identified undercover police officers who served with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]], their anonymity status within the Undercover Policing Inquiry, and with links to profiles were done. For a more comprehensive list of all N/HN officers in Operation Herne, Ellisor Review and the Undercover Policing Inquiry see the [[N officers]] page.<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* ''Updated 25 September 2019''<br />
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{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN1<br />
| ''[[Matt Rayner (alias)|Matt Rayner]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in north London 1991-1996, including London Boots Action Group, London Animal Action, Animal Liberation Front and West London Hunt Saboteurs. Engaged in sexual relationships. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN2]]<br />
| [[Andy Coles]] a.k.a. ''Andy Davey''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in south London 1991-1995; also targeted peace groups. Engaged in sexual relationships. Authored a version of the SDS Tradecraft manual. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN3<br />
| ''[[Jason Bishop (alias)|Jason Bishop]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2006 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and Disarm DSEi. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN4]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into two branches of one group in late 1980s/early 1990s.<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-PN-SDS-minded-to-11.pdf Press notice - 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N5 / HN5<br />
| [[John Dines]] a.k.a. ''John Barker''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 infiltrated London Greenpeace and Animal Liberation Front. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN6]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against three groups in 1990s. Cover and real name restricted due to risk of violence and mental health issues.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN7]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover officer.<br />
| Real and cover names restricted on health grounds. Targets & dates unknown.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN8]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover.<br />
| Deployed into one group in late 1980s / early 1990s. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted on grounds of a physical risk.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN9|N9 / HN9]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer. <br />
| Deployed into one group in 1980s; later was a cover officer for officers of interest deployed in 2000s. Named in Ellison Review. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted as HN9 at risk of suicide if details published.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N10 / HN10<br />
| [[Bob Lambert|Robert "Bob" Lambert]] a.k.a. ''Bob Robinson''<br />
| SDS undercover and head of unit.<br />
| Targeted animal rights groups in north London 1984-1989. Engaged in sexual relationships, including fathering a child by one activist. Later head of the SDS and took part in the Walton-N81 meeting.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN11<br />
| [[Mike Chitty]], a.k.a. ''Mike Blake''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1984-1987 deployed into animal rights groups in south London, including South London Animal Movement. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN12]]<br />
| ''Mike Hartley''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1982-1985, deployed into Revolutionary Communist Group and Socialist Workers Party. Engaged in sexual relationships. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN13]]<br />
| ''Barry / Desmond Loader''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) 1974/5-1978. Twice prosecuted for public order offences in his cover name and convicted once. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N14 / HN14<br />
| [[Jim Boyling]] a.k.a. ''"Grumpy" Jim Sutton''<br />
| SDS Undercover. <br />
| 1995-2000 deployed into Essex Hunt Saboteurs, Reclaim the Streets and Earth First! Engaged in sexual relationships and fathered children by an activist.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN15]]<br />
| [[Mark Jenner]] a.k.a. ''Mark Cassidy''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1995-2000 targeted Colin Roach Centre, Anti-Fascist Action, Independent Working Class Association, Republican Forum. Mentioned by Lambert as an SDS UCO who 'would have involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison page 214). Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N16 / HN16 <br />
| ''[[James Straven_(alias)|James Straven]]'' and ''Kevin Crossland''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1997-2002 deployed into the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Brixton and Croydon Hunt Saboteurs. Used two cover names, including the identity of a dead child. Lied about having had relationships with women. One of them, 'Ellie', came forward.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN17]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Targeted right wing groups in 1990s (last 15 years of SDS existence).<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN18]]<br />
| ''[[Rob Harrison (alias)|Rob Harrison]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2004-2007 deployed into State of Emergency Collective, No Borders London, Globalise Resistance, rampART and the International Solidarity Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN19<br />
| ''[[Malcolm Shearing (alias)|Malcolm Shearing]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1981 to 1985 deployed into Revolutionary Communist Party &amp; Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist/Leninist). Arrested and cautioned for bill posting. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN20<br />
| ''[[Tony Williams (alias)|Tony Williams]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978 to 1982 deployed into the Revolutionary Communist Tendency and Direct Action Movement. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN21]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1970s / early 1980s against one group & reported on others. Ruled that real and cover names to be restricted on mental health grounds. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN23]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1990s. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN25]]<br />
| ''Kevin Douglas'<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 deployed into the Troops Out Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN26<br />
| ''[[Christine Green (alias)|Christine Green]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1994-1999 into animal rights groups including Animal Liberation Front, London Animal Action and West London Hunt Saboteurs.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN27]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of left wing groups in the 1990s. In 60s. Ruling made that real and cover names will be restricted on grounds the officer is 'at risk to life and limb' given the nature of deployment and activities undertaken. Mentioned in Ellison.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN28<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups and reported on others in last 15 years of SDS. Minded to: restrict real and cover names as at risk of serious violence if identity discovered.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/201805223-PN_SDS_MT_9.pdf 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad Ruling on HN122], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref> Had been directed to file anonymity application by 24/27 April 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.19Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180419_direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 April 2018.</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180426_HN28_application.pdf Open application over real and cover names (26 Apr 2018)]<br />
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30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN33/98<br />
| ''[[Lee Bonser (alias)|Kathryn Lesley 'Lee' Bonser]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Socialist Workers Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN40|N40]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Undercover in last decade of the unit.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> Mentioned in relation to how information from the SDS, particularly on the identities of protestors, was passed on to the rest of the police (Herne II, 13.4, 24.1.3).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN41]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in the 1970s and 1980s, of which the principle target group no longer exists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N43<br />
| Peter Francis, a.k.a. ''Peter Daley / Johnson / Black''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1993-1997 infiltrated Youth against Racism in Europe and Militant & Socialist Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN44<br />
| ''Darren Prowse''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Tasked to infiltrate the British National Party in 2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.5June2018">Email to core participants, '20180605_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN44_HN155_HN303', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
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20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS-CL_HN44_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] 26 Feb 2018 (published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref>) which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
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Mitting wrote (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
:: HN44 is a serving Metropolitan Police officer. In the last period of existence of the Special Duties Squad he was deployed to build a legend to permit him to infiltrate violent elements of one group. The Special Duties Squad was closed and his deployment was ended before he had succeeded in doing so. His evidence about the closure of the Squad is likely to be of interest to the Inquiry. In the (very) unlikely event that any member of he target group can provide or wishes to provide any information about him, publication of his cover name, which ill occur, is all that is required to prompt them to do so. Publication of his real name would give rise to a eal risk of interference in the private and family life of HN44 and his family and a contingent risk to their safety. It is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. It would be neither proportionate nor justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention.<br />
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9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN45<br />
| ''[[Dave Robertson (alias)|Dave Robertson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| 1970-1973 infiltrated Banner Books, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and maoist groups in North London. Worked in back office in SDS in adminstrative role for 3 years in 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN48<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN53|HN53/N53]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1980s; Second in Operational Command of SDS 1998-2005 (Det. Insp.). Though evidence is of importance to Inquiry, there is a contingent physical risk which justifies restricting real and cover names. Mentioned in Herne I & II, and Ellison. Ruled that neither real or cover names can be released by the Inquiry.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN56<br />
| ''[[Alan 'Nick' Nicholson (alias)|Alan 'Nick' Nicholson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1990-1991 targeted British National Party.<ref name = covernamesApril>Undercover Policing Inquiry, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ Update of Cover names page], ucpi.org.uk, 17 April 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN58]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| DCI in charge of SDS 1997 - 2001. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN60<br />
| ''[[Dave Evans (alias)|Dave Evans]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2005 deployed into Socialist Workers Party, London Animal Action & Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN64]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in 1990s and reported on others.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN65<br />
| ''John Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1980 - 1984 targeted Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN65_application.pdf Application made to restrict real and cover names] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/> [https://cnduk.org/statement-on-police-infiltration-of-cnd/ CND statement]<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
In March 2018, Mitting wrote:<br />
:: N65 is a sexagenarian. HN65 was deployed against one group in the early 1980s. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry. The group, which was well known, posed no serious threat to public order. Its embers posed,and pose, no risk to the safety of HN65. One of the issues which the Inquiry must investigate, publicly, is why HN65 was deployed against the group and what, if anything, was done with intelligence provided on it by HN65. HN65 is likely to be the principal, perhaps only, source of information about these issues. Publication of the cover name of HN65, together with the name of the group infiltrated, should prompt further information and evidence from members of the group, likely to be of value to the Inquiry.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
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30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN66<br />
| ''[[Edward David Jones (alias)|Edward David Jones (Bob the Builder, Edge, Dave)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against London Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action (Drax) 2005-2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.8Jan2018">Email to core participants, '20190108-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN66', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 January 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> In 60s.<br />
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HN66 is the same as the NPOIU officer EN327.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180502_press_notice_NPOIU_anonymity.pdf Press Notice: 'Minded to' note: applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN67<br />
| ''[[Alan Bond (alias)|Alan Bond]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1981- 86 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="email.ucpi.7June2018">Email to core participants, '20180607_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN67_HN68_HAB_CP19', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Admits to having a 'fleeting sexual encounter in his cover name with one woman who was not a member of his target group'. Later second in command of SDS for three years in 1990s. Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN68<br />
| ''[[Sean Lynch (alias)|Sean Lynch]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1968-74 infiltrated Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign and Sinn Féin (London). Held managerial position in SDS 1982-84. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN71]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in 1990s and 2000s / last 15 years of the existence of the SDS.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HN7Ruling.27Mar2018">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Final-ruling-following-21-March-hearing.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad Ruling 5 ], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN72]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed for short period in 1980s into one group (inferred as 1986-1987). Held significant managerial position in SDS (approx 2005/6), after Macpherson; considered to have important evidence to give regarding spying on the Lawrence family. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN76]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in last years of the SDS into one group and reported on others. Mitting has ruled real and cover names will be restricted as HN76 is a serving police officer 'engaged in sensitive duties', so it would not be in the public interest to 'put performance of those duties at risk'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN77<br />
| ''[[Jackie Anderson (alias)|Jaqueline "Jackie" Anderson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2000-2005 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and the WOMBLES.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN78<br />
| ''[[Bobby_Lewis| Anthony "Bobby" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1991 - 1995 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190716-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN78_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 16 July 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Previously described as deployed Summer 1991-1995 deployed into left wing groups, including some near the Lawrence campaign; joined Special Branch 1986, and SDS in 1991 - leaving that unit by 1996. (Herne II, 12.2; Ellison, 6.4). Aware of Peter Francis' role; said he heard nothing indicating material to smear the Lawrences was being sought (Herne II, 21.1.14; Ellison, 6.3(p), 6.4). Considerable material from him covered in section 6.4 of the Ellison Review (Vol.1).<ref name="herne.2"/><ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN78 is a sexagenarian. HN78 was deployed into two or three groups in the early 1990s. HN78 admits to a relationship with a member of the opposite sex during the deployment. The Inquiry must investigate deployments into these groups, including that of HN78... Further, members of the target groups must have the opportunity to give evidence about the deployment of HN78. To do that, they will need to know the cover name. <br />
<br />
Decision to restrict real name but publish cover name reiterated on 6 June 2018, when Mitting wrote:<ref name="ucpi.minded-to10.6June2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180606-Minded_to_10_and_ruling_9.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' note 10 and Ruling 9], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 June 2018.</ref><br />
: I repeat the reasons set out in the "minded to" note 6 dated 22 March 2018. Further, HN78 has now provided a detailed personal statement in support of the application for a restriction order in respect of the cover name. It provides information about the reasons for the deployments referred to in paragraph 20 of "minded to" note 6, which must be explored in public. It is also necessary that the cover name of HN78 is published, to permit members of the target groups to provide evidence about the deployments and their own activities.<br />
: The reasons for the ruling are those set out in the closed note referred to in paragraph 21 of "minded to" note 6 and in the closed note which accompanies this ruling.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN79<br />
| ''Ross 'RossCo' MacInnes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 tasked against the United British Alliance.<br />
<br />
22 Mar 2018: minded to: restrict real name, and noted:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
:: HN79 was the last undercover officer to be recruited into the Special Duties Squad. He was not fully deployed: the Squad was disbanded before he could be. He found the experience a stressful and unhappy one. He is a serving police officer and is concerned about the impact of the disclosure, in connection with his would-be role as an undercover officer in the Squad, of his real name on his current police duties and on his family. <br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name released April 2018. Ruling of May 2018: real name restricted; application over cover name rejected.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
26 Feb 2018: MPS submit [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180226-MPS-HN79_Application.pdf application to restrict real name only].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN80<br />
| ''Colin Clark''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1977-1982 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name and groups released 26 June 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018">Email to core participants, '20180626_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN80_HN88_HN90_HN106_HN340', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names]</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN80_application.pdf Application made to restrict cover and real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN80 is a septuagenarian. HN80 was deployed as an undercover officer against one group in the late 1970s and early 1980s and encountered and reported on many others. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry because of its length and range and because, according to HN80, it involved a good deal of self-tasking. Publication of the cover name of HN80 may prompt information or evidence from those who encountered HN80 during the deployment. Publication of the real name of HN80 is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would interfere with the right ofHN80 to respect for private and family life. HN80 has expressed fears, which do not appear to be objectively justified, about the risk of violence posed by former targets and their associates. I am prepared to accept that the fears are genuinely held. On the basis of what is t present known, it would be neither proportionate nor justified under article 8(2) of the European Convention to override those fears by refusing to make a restriction order in respect of the real name. <br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[N81|HN81 / N81]]<br />
| ''Dave Hagan''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1996-2001 targeted Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy and Movement for Justice. Referred to extensively in the [[Ellison Review]] in relation to the targeting of the family of Stephen Lawrence. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN82<br />
| ''Nicholas Green''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1982 to 1986 into Socialist Workers Party and Red Action.<ref>Email to core participants, '20180814-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN82_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 August 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> (Previously described as being deployed against two groups in 1980s, one of which said to be violent.) Deceased. Risk assessor finds no risk to safety of his widow, but she has expressed concern all the same, and 'feels' the risk is real. Mitting in his Minded-To of March 2018 indicates the real name shall be restricted while opportunity given to widow of HN82 to make a personal representation at a closed hearing about publication of cover name. Mitting not prepared to act on something vague, but given chance HN82's real name could be discovered via his cover name, the Chair is giving her a chance to make a representation at a closed hearing in respect of the cover name. A closed note also accompanies the open reasons provided in the Minded To.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018 (accessed 10 March 2018).</ref> Subsequent to this, the Inquiry website at unknown date listed the cover name as 'to be published'. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| [[HN83]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in mid-1980s; name restricted due to risk to officer's personal safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N85 / HN85<br />
| [[Roger Pearce]] a.k.a. ''Roger Thorley''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1979-1984 infiltrated Freedom Press and anarchist groups. Later Head of Special Branch and Director of Intelligence for Metropolitan Police Service. Mentioned in the first Operation Herne report and the Ellison Review.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN86|HN86 / N86]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| SDS undercover in late 1970s / early 1980s 'against groups whose principle activities during that time are outside the terms of reference of the Inquiry'. Later Det. Ch. Insp. in operational charge of the SDS for a period in 1990s, and temporary head of S Squad. Mentioned by Herne and Ellison, inlcuding in relation to spying on the Lawrence family. Mitting has ruled the real and cover names will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN87]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s/1990s. Real and cover names restricted for reasons which cannot be made public.<ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN88<br />
| ''[[Timothy Spence (alias)|Timothy Spence]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated the Stoke Newington and Hackney Defence Campaign and the Hackney Campaign Against the Police Bill. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN89 / N89<br />
| ''cover name to come''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated far right in 1990s and 'involved in public order situations where left and right attended'; contemporary of Peter Francis who would confide in N89.<ref name="ellison.1"/> Deceased; real and cover names to be published as no application made to restrict details (Nov 2017 minded-to).<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN90<br />
| ''Mark Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1988-1992 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party and City of London Anti-Apartheid Group.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018"/><br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN90_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
March 2018: Mitting minded to publish cover name but restrict real name, writing:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN90 is a sexagenarian. HN90 was deployed into one group, after a short deployment in another, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The deployment appears to have been unremarkable. The risk to the safety of HN90 arising out of it is nil or negligible. The deployment is, nevertheless, of significant interest to the Inquiry, for at least two reasons: it spanned the period during which the Cold War ended and the focus of undercover deployments may have changed; and it included reporting on Poll Tax demonstrations. Fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry requires that these issues are explored publicly and that those with whom HN90 may have interacted have the opportunity of providing information or evidence about the deployment... It does not require that the real name of HN90 is published.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN91]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in last period of SDS. Neither group poses a threat, but the officer is currently serving in a 'valuable and sensitve role' so real or cover name are to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN95<br />
| ''Stefan Wesolowski''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1985-1988 deployed into Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> <br />
<br />
Apr 2018: Mitting said he was minded-to refuse application to restrict real name, saying:<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/><br />
:: His deployment was problematical and was terminated by his managers abruptly in 1988. He was medically retired soon after. Little or nothing is known about his current circumstances or concerns, save that it is believed he is aware of the attempts which have been made to contact him in connection with the Inquiry. If he is, he has not responded to them.<br />
:: The [MPS] has made an application for a restriction order in respect of his real name. The grounds of the application are generic. They do not identify the respects, if any, in which his right to respect for his private and family life would be infringed by publication of his real name, beyond referring to a paragraph in the risk assessment created on 27 February 2018 which is, itself, generic.... I am not willing to make a restriction order on Article 8 grounds without some good reason for believing that the right to respect for private and family life would be infringed if real or cover name were published. In the case of HN95, I have no such reason. Further, the real name of HN95 and the circumstances in which he came to join and leave the [SDS] are know to responsible journalists. The latter have been put into the public domain by them. I have no reason to believe that any attempt will be made to restrain publication of that which they know - the real name of HN95. In those circumstances, it would be futile to make a restriction order in respect of the real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN96<br />
| ''[[Michael James (alias)|Michael James]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978-1983 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party & Troop Out Movement.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN97]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s into one group and reported on many others. Ruled that real and cover names will be restricted due to a risk to HN97 which cannot be made public.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN101]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party in 1990s. Contemporary of [[Peter Francis]], and according to [[Bob Lambert]], had 'an involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison, p. 214).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN102]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into anarchist groups in the 1980s. Mitting has restricted real and cover names on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN104<br />
| ''[[Carlo Neri (alias)|Carlo Neri]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed March 2000 to Summer 2006 into Socialist Party and No Platform / Antifa.<br />
<br />
Real name known to the activists he spied upon, and who exposed him.<ref name="mitting.supp.minded-to.23Oct2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171023-supplementary-Minded-to.pdf Supplementary 'Minded-To'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2017 (accessed 23 October 2017 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> During the public hearing of 21 November, it was recognised that Carlo's real name was going to be published, the matter effectively reduced to who did it.<ref name="ucpi.hearing.transcript.21Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171121-Anonymity-application-hearing-day-2-Draft-Transcript.pdf Transcript of hearing of 21 November 2017], Undercover Policing Inquiry, 21 November 2017.</ref> whcih was acknowledged in a ruling of Dec 2017.<ref name="ucpi.HN104.20Dec2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171220-HN-104-Ruling.pdf On the application of HN104 for a restriction order in respect of his real name], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry", 20 December 2017.</ref> Discussions on how to publish the name, while respecting rights of the family are on-going (17 July 2018).<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180717-SDS_anonymity_direction_HN104.pdf Application for a restriction order in respect of HN104 - Direction], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN106<br />
| ''[[Barry_Tomkins_(alias)|Barry Tomkins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1979-1983 deployed into the Spartacist League of Britain. Ruled real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN109]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s; later a Det. Insp. in SDS in 1995 (1980s/1990s). Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN112]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 in training though never actually deployed. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN118<br />
| ''[[Simon Wellings (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 2001-2004 (2007) into Globalise Resistance, Socialist Workers Party and Dissent!<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN122<br />
| ''Neil Richardson''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Revolutionary Communist Party & Class War 1989-1993.<ref name="email.ucpi.12Feb2019">Email to core participants, '20190212-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN122', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 12 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN123]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into left wing groups 1993-1998, one of which 'advocated and practiced the use of violence'. Retired from MPS on health grounds & later diagnosed with a mental health condition in part derived from his deployment. Said to have played a part in activities connected to the spying on the Lawrences. Mentioned in both Ellison Review and Herne II. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN125]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a single left wing group in 1980s. Real and cover names to be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN126]]<br />
| ''Paul Gray''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the Socialist Workers Party and Anti-Nazi League 1977-1982.<ref name="email.ucpi.25June2019">Email to core participants, '20190625-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN126_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN135 / [[Mike Ferguson]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated anti-apartheid campaigners including the 'Stop the Seventy' campaign - 1969-1970. Real name given in ''True Spies'' series.<br />
<br />
20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications applications were to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Mar2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: closed hearing to take place.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> July 2018: 'further investigation necessary befor application to restrict the cover name can be determined. The real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
29 Oct 2019: real name released as already in public domain (see ''True Spies''), but cover name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling16.29Oct2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191029-sds_anonymity-ruling_16_san.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Ruling 16'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 29 October 2019.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN155]]<br />
| ''Phil Cooper''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1979/80 to January 1984. Ruled that real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN200<br />
| ''Roger Harris''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1974-1977. <br />
<br />
Minded-To (March 2018): real name cannot be published; cover name to be published.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
Details released 17 July 2018).<ref name="email.ucpi.14July2018">Email to core participants, '20180717_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN25_HN200_direction_HN104', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 July2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Currently in 70s. Deployment apparently unremarkable. Mitting: no reason to publish real name; and HN200 and wife are concerned about media intrustion.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN218 / N218<br />
| ''Barry Morris''<br />
| SDS undercover and probably manager<br />
| Deployed 1968 into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018"/><br />
<br />
Cover name and real name to be published as no restriction order application made.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> Cover name released May 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018">Email to core participants, '20180501_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN3_HN19_HN20_HN60_HN218_HN353', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 1 May 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Herne II, para. 25.1.2 states: The MPS Director of Intelligence in 1999 has been interviewed by Operation Herne and stated, 'I have been asked if I recall 'any Special Branch plans to mislead the Macpherson Inquiry' into the death of Stephen Lawrence. For part of this time, I was head of Special Branch operations and have no recollection of any such plans.’ Peter Francis has alleged that N218 came out to see him in respect of withholding information from the Macpherson Inquiry. In interview, N218 stated that this meeting or request never happened.<ref name="herne.2"/> There is a strong probablility that N218 is former Special Branch commander [[Barry Moss]].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN241<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into one group in 1970s. Ruling (20 Feb 2018): real and cover names to be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling.20Feb18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-ruling-SDS-anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 4 March 2018).</ref> No allegation of misconduct. Arrested but not charged on one occasion.<ref name="hn241.ra">Brian Lockie, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20171221-HN241-Risk-Assessment.pdf HN241 Risk assessment (open version)], ''Metropolitan Police'', 3 October 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN294]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968-1969 into a group that no longer exists, and reported on others. Held a managerial position in the SDS 1969-1974. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN296<br />
| ''Geoff Wallace''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party from 1975 to 1978;<ref name="email.ucpi.4June2019">Email to core participants, '20190604-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN296_cover_name', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 4 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> no known allegation of misconduct against him. Currently in late 60s.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
He does not live in the UK but is willing to cooperate with the Inquiry.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18"/> Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN297<br />
| ''[[Rick Gibson (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated Troop Out Movement 1974-1976 and tasked to infiltrate Big Flame - discovered and confronted by them in 1976. Multiple sexual relationships. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN298<br />
| ''[[Michael Scott (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971 to 1976 into the Young Liberals, Anti-Apartheid Movement and Workers Revolutionary Party. Convicted in 1972 under his cover name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. His cover surname has not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323 / Helen Crampton<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1968 to mid-1970 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in ''True Spies'' under the pseudonym 'Dan'.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover &amp; manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969-1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971-1976 against International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League & Troops Out Movement.<ref name="tw.ucpi.18Dec2018">[https://twitter.com/ucpinquiry/status/1074972312389197826 Cover name released: "David Hughes". Groups: International Marxist Group; Anti-Internment League; Troops Out Movement. Years active: 1971 - 1976.], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (Twitter.com)'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into Anti-Internment League and Northern Minorities Defence Force.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] in 1971.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Womens Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Minded to restrict real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| ''[[Vince Miller (alias)|Vince Miller]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=HN155&diff=257535HN1552021-05-14T13:29:01Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name=HN155|Alias=Phil Cooper|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1979/80 - Jan 1984|Targets=Socialist Workers Party, Waltham Forest Anti-Nuclear Campaign, Right to Work Campaign}}<br />
<br />
'''Phil Cooper''' is the cover name used by a former undercover officer with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] who was deployed 1979/80 to 1983 into the Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="email.ucpi.5June2018">Email to core participants, '20180605_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN44_HN155_HN303', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> He is also referred to by the cipher '''HN155''' for the purposes of the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (for details of the N-numbers cipher system see [[N officers]]), which has also ruled that his real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
==As an SDS undercover==<br />
<br />
During his time undercover came into regular contact with a then sitting MP, though he are unable to recall who that might have been.<ref name="mitting.mindedto7.27Mar2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Minded-to-Note-7-re-HN155.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 7], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 28 March 2018 (accessed 2 April 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
<br />
* 19 December 2017: Metropolitan Police make application to restrict real name.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20171219-MPS-CL_HN155_application.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN155], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 19 December 2017, published 9 July 2018 via ucpi.org.uk.</ref><br />
<br />
* January 2018: more time granted 'to provide the Chairman with information in order for him to make a decision'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.25Jan18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180124-December-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press Notice: Decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 January 2018 (accessed 25 January 2018).</ref><ref name="mitting.mindedto4.25Jan2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180125-December-tranche-impact-led-and-HN353-minded-to-sanitised.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 4], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 January 2018 (accessed 25 January 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
* 7 March 2018: oral submissions invited in respect of a restriction order over the real name were invited for the hearing of 21 March 2018. In his 'Minded To' note, the Chair of the Inquiry, John Mitting, wrote:<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018 (accessed 10 March 2018).</ref><br />
:: The threat posed to his physical safety by former members of the group and/or sympathisers is nil or negligible. He will, however, inevitably be the subject of unwelcome media attention and is understandably concerned about the impact which that will have on his wife. But for the facts referred to below, I would have made a restriction order in respect of his real name, to avoid unnecessary infringement of the right of HN155 and his wife to respect for their private and family life.<br />
:: The real name of HN155 is known to responsible journalists, who have written to him in that name. Publication of it by them from information already in their possession would not infringe any restriction order... if made. I am not minded to make futile orders. Hence the need for oral submissions from those with an interest in this issue.<br />
<br />
: HN155's position gave rise to a substantive discussion on regarding ''The Guardian'''s ability to publish his name, which was heard at the 21 March 2018 hearing as this would have a bearing on HN155's restriction order application.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018"/><ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180321-draft-transcript-.pdf Hearing of 21 March 2018: Draft Transcript], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 March 2018 (accessed 21 March 2018, via ucpi.org.uk).</ref> A subsequent Minded To note issued on 28 March 2018 saw Mitting indicating he was likely to grant the restriction order over HN155's real name.<ref name="mitting.mindedto7.27Mar2017"/><br />
<br />
* 5 June 2018: cover name and target group released.<ref name="email.ucpi.5June2018"/><br />
<br />
* 9 July 2018: provisional decision to restrict real name made.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref> It was also directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to grant the restriction order to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
* 30 July 2018: final ruling that HN155's real name will be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=SDS_undercover_list&diff=257534SDS undercover list2021-05-14T13:28:23Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=SDS undercover list|Description=A list of all publicly known officers who served undercover with the Special Demonstration Squad, 1968-2008}}<br />
<br />
This page carries a full list of publicly identified undercover police officers who served with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]], their anonymity status within the Undercover Policing Inquiry, and with links to profiles were done. For a more comprehensive list of all N/HN officers in Operation Herne, Ellisor Review and the Undercover Policing Inquiry see the [[N officers]] page.<br />
<br />
Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
<br />
* ''Updated 25 September 2019''<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN1<br />
| ''[[Matt Rayner (alias)|Matt Rayner]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in north London 1991-1996, including London Boots Action Group, London Animal Action, Animal Liberation Front and West London Hunt Saboteurs. Engaged in sexual relationships. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN2]]<br />
| [[Andy Coles]] a.k.a. ''Andy Davey''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in south London 1991-1995; also targeted peace groups. Engaged in sexual relationships. Authored a version of the SDS Tradecraft manual. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN3<br />
| ''[[Jason Bishop (alias)|Jason Bishop]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2006 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and Disarm DSEi. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN4]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into two branches of one group in late 1980s/early 1990s.<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-PN-SDS-minded-to-11.pdf Press notice - 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N5 / HN5<br />
| [[John Dines]] a.k.a. ''John Barker''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 infiltrated London Greenpeace and Animal Liberation Front. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN6]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against three groups in 1990s. Cover and real name restricted due to risk of violence and mental health issues.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN7]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover officer.<br />
| Real and cover names restricted on health grounds. Targets & dates unknown.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN8]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover.<br />
| Deployed into one group in late 1980s / early 1990s. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted on grounds of a physical risk.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN9|N9 / HN9]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer. <br />
| Deployed into one group in 1980s; later was a cover officer for officers of interest deployed in 2000s. Named in Ellison Review. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted as HN9 at risk of suicide if details published.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N10 / HN10<br />
| [[Bob Lambert|Robert "Bob" Lambert]] a.k.a. ''Bob Robinson''<br />
| SDS undercover and head of unit.<br />
| Targeted animal rights groups in north London 1984-1989. Engaged in sexual relationships, including fathering a child by one activist. Later head of the SDS and took part in the Walton-N81 meeting.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN11<br />
| [[Mike Chitty]], a.k.a. ''Mike Blake''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1984-1987 deployed into animal rights groups in south London, including South London Animal Movement. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN12]]<br />
| ''Mike Hartley''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1982-1985, deployed into Revolutionary Communist Group and Socialist Workers Party. Engaged in sexual relationships. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN13]]<br />
| ''Barry / Desmond Loader''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) 1974/5-1978. Twice prosecuted for public order offences in his cover name and convicted once. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N14 / HN14<br />
| [[Jim Boyling]] a.k.a. ''"Grumpy" Jim Sutton''<br />
| SDS Undercover. <br />
| 1995-2000 deployed into Essex Hunt Saboteurs, Reclaim the Streets and Earth First! Engaged in sexual relationships and fathered children by an activist.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN15]]<br />
| [[Mark Jenner]] a.k.a. ''Mark Cassidy''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1995-2000 targeted Colin Roach Centre, Anti-Fascist Action, Independent Working Class Association, Republican Forum. Mentioned by Lambert as an SDS UCO who 'would have involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison page 214). Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N16 / HN16 <br />
| ''[[James Straven_(alias)|James Straven]]'' and ''Kevin Crossland''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1997-2002 deployed into the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Brixton and Croydon Hunt Saboteurs. Used two cover names, including the identity of a dead child. Lied about having had relationships with women. One of them, 'Ellie', came forward.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN17]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Targeted right wing groups in 1990s (last 15 years of SDS existence).<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN18]]<br />
| ''[[Rob Harrison (alias)|Rob Harrison]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2004-2007 deployed into State of Emergency Collective, No Borders London, Globalise Resistance, rampART and the International Solidarity Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN19<br />
| ''[[Malcolm Shearing (alias)|Malcolm Shearing]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1981 to 1985 deployed into Revolutionary Communist Party &amp; Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist/Leninist). Arrested and cautioned for bill posting. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN20<br />
| ''[[Tony Williams (alias)|Tony Williams]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978 to 1982 deployed into the Revolutionary Communist Tendency and Direct Action Movement. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN21]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1970s / early 1980s against one group & reported on others. Ruled that real and cover names to be restricted on mental health grounds. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN23]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1990s. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN25]]<br />
| ''Kevin Douglas'<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 deployed into the Troops Out Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN26<br />
| ''[[Christine Green (alias)|Christine Green]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1994-1999 into animal rights groups including Animal Liberation Front, London Animal Action and West London Hunt Saboteurs.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN27]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of left wing groups in the 1990s. In 60s. Ruling made that real and cover names will be restricted on grounds the officer is 'at risk to life and limb' given the nature of deployment and activities undertaken. Mentioned in Ellison.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN28<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups and reported on others in last 15 years of SDS. Minded to: restrict real and cover names as at risk of serious violence if identity discovered.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/201805223-PN_SDS_MT_9.pdf 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad Ruling on HN122], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref> Had been directed to file anonymity application by 24/27 April 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.19Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180419_direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 April 2018.</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180426_HN28_application.pdf Open application over real and cover names (26 Apr 2018)]<br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN33/98<br />
| ''[[Lee Bonser (alias)|Kathryn Lesley 'Lee' Bonser]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Socialist Workers Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN40|N40]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Undercover in last decade of the unit.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> Mentioned in relation to how information from the SDS, particularly on the identities of protestors, was passed on to the rest of the police (Herne II, 13.4, 24.1.3).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN41]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in the 1970s and 1980s, of which the principle target group no longer exists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N43<br />
| Peter Francis, a.k.a. ''Peter Daley / Johnson / Black''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1993-1997 infiltrated Youth against Racism in Europe and Militant & Socialist Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN44<br />
| ''Darren Prowse''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Tasked to infiltrate the British National Party in 2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.5June2018">Email to core participants, '20180605_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN44_HN155_HN303', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS-CL_HN44_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] 26 Feb 2018 (published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref>) which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Mitting wrote (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
:: HN44 is a serving Metropolitan Police officer. In the last period of existence of the Special Duties Squad he was deployed to build a legend to permit him to infiltrate violent elements of one group. The Special Duties Squad was closed and his deployment was ended before he had succeeded in doing so. His evidence about the closure of the Squad is likely to be of interest to the Inquiry. In the (very) unlikely event that any member of he target group can provide or wishes to provide any information about him, publication of his cover name, which ill occur, is all that is required to prompt them to do so. Publication of his real name would give rise to a eal risk of interference in the private and family life of HN44 and his family and a contingent risk to their safety. It is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. It would be neither proportionate nor justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN45<br />
| ''[[Dave Robertson (alias)|Dave Robertson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| 1970-1973 infiltrated Banner Books, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and maoist groups in North London. Worked in back office in SDS in adminstrative role for 3 years in 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN48<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN53|HN53/N53]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1980s; Second in Operational Command of SDS 1998-2005 (Det. Insp.). Though evidence is of importance to Inquiry, there is a contingent physical risk which justifies restricting real and cover names. Mentioned in Herne I & II, and Ellison. Ruled that neither real or cover names can be released by the Inquiry.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN56<br />
| ''[[Alan 'Nick' Nicholson (alias)|Alan 'Nick' Nicholson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1990-1991 targeted British National Party.<ref name = covernamesApril>Undercover Policing Inquiry, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ Update of Cover names page], ucpi.org.uk, 17 April 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN58]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| DCI in charge of SDS 1997 - 2001. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN60<br />
| ''[[Dave Evans (alias)|Dave Evans]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2005 deployed into Socialist Workers Party, London Animal Action & Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN64]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in 1990s and reported on others.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN65<br />
| ''John Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1980 - 1984 targeted Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN65_application.pdf Application made to restrict real and cover names] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/> [https://cnduk.org/statement-on-police-infiltration-of-cnd/ CND statement]<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
In March 2018, Mitting wrote:<br />
:: N65 is a sexagenarian. HN65 was deployed against one group in the early 1980s. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry. The group, which was well known, posed no serious threat to public order. Its embers posed,and pose, no risk to the safety of HN65. One of the issues which the Inquiry must investigate, publicly, is why HN65 was deployed against the group and what, if anything, was done with intelligence provided on it by HN65. HN65 is likely to be the principal, perhaps only, source of information about these issues. Publication of the cover name of HN65, together with the name of the group infiltrated, should prompt further information and evidence from members of the group, likely to be of value to the Inquiry.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN66<br />
| ''[[Edward David Jones (alias)|Edward David Jones (Bob the Builder, Edge, Dave)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against London Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action (Drax) 2005-2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.8Jan2018">Email to core participants, '20190108-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN66', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 January 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> In 60s.<br />
<br />
HN66 is the same as the NPOIU officer EN327.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180502_press_notice_NPOIU_anonymity.pdf Press Notice: 'Minded to' note: applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN67<br />
| ''[[Alan Bond (alias)|Alan Bond]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1981- 86 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="email.ucpi.7June2018">Email to core participants, '20180607_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN67_HN68_HAB_CP19', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Admits to having a 'fleeting sexual encounter in his cover name with one woman who was not a member of his target group'. Later second in command of SDS for three years in 1990s. Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN68<br />
| ''[[Sean Lynch (alias)|Sean Lynch]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1968-74 infiltrated Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign and Sinn Féin (London). Held managerial position in SDS 1982-84. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN71]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in 1990s and 2000s / last 15 years of the existence of the SDS.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HN7Ruling.27Mar2018">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Final-ruling-following-21-March-hearing.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad Ruling 5 ], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN72]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed for short period in 1980s into one group (inferred as 1986-1987). Held significant managerial position in SDS (approx 2005/6), after Macpherson; considered to have important evidence to give regarding spying on the Lawrence family. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN76]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in last years of the SDS into one group and reported on others. Mitting has ruled real and cover names will be restricted as HN76 is a serving police officer 'engaged in sensitive duties', so it would not be in the public interest to 'put performance of those duties at risk'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN77<br />
| ''[[Jackie Anderson (alias)|Jaqueline "Jackie" Anderson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2000-2005 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and the WOMBLES.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN78<br />
| ''[[Bobby_Lewis| Anthony "Bobby" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1991 - 1995 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190716-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN78_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 16 July 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Previously described as deployed Summer 1991-1995 deployed into left wing groups, including some near the Lawrence campaign; joined Special Branch 1986, and SDS in 1991 - leaving that unit by 1996. (Herne II, 12.2; Ellison, 6.4). Aware of Peter Francis' role; said he heard nothing indicating material to smear the Lawrences was being sought (Herne II, 21.1.14; Ellison, 6.3(p), 6.4). Considerable material from him covered in section 6.4 of the Ellison Review (Vol.1).<ref name="herne.2"/><ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN78 is a sexagenarian. HN78 was deployed into two or three groups in the early 1990s. HN78 admits to a relationship with a member of the opposite sex during the deployment. The Inquiry must investigate deployments into these groups, including that of HN78... Further, members of the target groups must have the opportunity to give evidence about the deployment of HN78. To do that, they will need to know the cover name. <br />
<br />
Decision to restrict real name but publish cover name reiterated on 6 June 2018, when Mitting wrote:<ref name="ucpi.minded-to10.6June2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180606-Minded_to_10_and_ruling_9.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' note 10 and Ruling 9], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 June 2018.</ref><br />
: I repeat the reasons set out in the "minded to" note 6 dated 22 March 2018. Further, HN78 has now provided a detailed personal statement in support of the application for a restriction order in respect of the cover name. It provides information about the reasons for the deployments referred to in paragraph 20 of "minded to" note 6, which must be explored in public. It is also necessary that the cover name of HN78 is published, to permit members of the target groups to provide evidence about the deployments and their own activities.<br />
: The reasons for the ruling are those set out in the closed note referred to in paragraph 21 of "minded to" note 6 and in the closed note which accompanies this ruling.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN79<br />
| ''Ross 'RossCo' MacInnes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 tasked against the United British Alliance.<br />
<br />
22 Mar 2018: minded to: restrict real name, and noted:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
:: HN79 was the last undercover officer to be recruited into the Special Duties Squad. He was not fully deployed: the Squad was disbanded before he could be. He found the experience a stressful and unhappy one. He is a serving police officer and is concerned about the impact of the disclosure, in connection with his would-be role as an undercover officer in the Squad, of his real name on his current police duties and on his family. <br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name released April 2018. Ruling of May 2018: real name restricted; application over cover name rejected.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
26 Feb 2018: MPS submit [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180226-MPS-HN79_Application.pdf application to restrict real name only].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN80<br />
| ''Colin Clark''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1977-1982 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name and groups released 26 June 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018">Email to core participants, '20180626_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN80_HN88_HN90_HN106_HN340', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names]</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN80_application.pdf Application made to restrict cover and real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN80 is a septuagenarian. HN80 was deployed as an undercover officer against one group in the late 1970s and early 1980s and encountered and reported on many others. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry because of its length and range and because, according to HN80, it involved a good deal of self-tasking. Publication of the cover name of HN80 may prompt information or evidence from those who encountered HN80 during the deployment. Publication of the real name of HN80 is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would interfere with the right ofHN80 to respect for private and family life. HN80 has expressed fears, which do not appear to be objectively justified, about the risk of violence posed by former targets and their associates. I am prepared to accept that the fears are genuinely held. On the basis of what is t present known, it would be neither proportionate nor justified under article 8(2) of the European Convention to override those fears by refusing to make a restriction order in respect of the real name. <br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[N81|HN81 / N81]]<br />
| ''Dave Hagan''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1996-2001 targeted Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy and Movement for Justice. Referred to extensively in the [[Ellison Review]] in relation to the targeting of the family of Stephen Lawrence. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN82<br />
| ''Nicholas Green''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1982 to 1986 into Socialist Workers Party and Red Action.<ref>Email to core participants, '20180814-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN82_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 August 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> (Previously described as being deployed against two groups in 1980s, one of which said to be violent.) Deceased. Risk assessor finds no risk to safety of his widow, but she has expressed concern all the same, and 'feels' the risk is real. Mitting in his Minded-To of March 2018 indicates the real name shall be restricted while opportunity given to widow of HN82 to make a personal representation at a closed hearing about publication of cover name. Mitting not prepared to act on something vague, but given chance HN82's real name could be discovered via his cover name, the Chair is giving her a chance to make a representation at a closed hearing in respect of the cover name. A closed note also accompanies the open reasons provided in the Minded To.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018 (accessed 10 March 2018).</ref> Subsequent to this, the Inquiry website at unknown date listed the cover name as 'to be published'. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| [[HN83]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in mid-1980s; name restricted due to risk to officer's personal safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N85 / HN85<br />
| [[Roger Pearce]] a.k.a. ''Roger Thorley''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1979-1984 infiltrated Freedom Press and anarchist groups. Later Head of Special Branch and Director of Intelligence for Metropolitan Police Service. Mentioned in the first Operation Herne report and the Ellison Review.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN86|HN86 / N86]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| SDS undercover in late 1970s / early 1980s 'against groups whose principle activities during that time are outside the terms of reference of the Inquiry'. Later Det. Ch. Insp. in operational charge of the SDS for a period in 1990s, and temporary head of S Squad. Mentioned by Herne and Ellison, inlcuding in relation to spying on the Lawrence family. Mitting has ruled the real and cover names will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN87]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s/1990s. Real and cover names restricted for reasons which cannot be made public.<ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN88<br />
| ''[[Timothy Spence (alias)|Timothy Spence]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated the Stoke Newington and Hackney Defence Campaign and the Hackney Campaign Against the Police Bill. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN89 / N89<br />
| ''cover name to come''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated far right in 1990s and 'involved in public order situations where left and right attended'; contemporary of Peter Francis who would confide in N89.<ref name="ellison.1"/> Deceased; real and cover names to be published as no application made to restrict details (Nov 2017 minded-to).<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN90<br />
| ''Mark Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1988-1992 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party and City of London Anti-Apartheid Group.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018"/><br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN90_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
March 2018: Mitting minded to publish cover name but restrict real name, writing:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN90 is a sexagenarian. HN90 was deployed into one group, after a short deployment in another, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The deployment appears to have been unremarkable. The risk to the safety of HN90 arising out of it is nil or negligible. The deployment is, nevertheless, of significant interest to the Inquiry, for at least two reasons: it spanned the period during which the Cold War ended and the focus of undercover deployments may have changed; and it included reporting on Poll Tax demonstrations. Fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry requires that these issues are explored publicly and that those with whom HN90 may have interacted have the opportunity of providing information or evidence about the deployment... It does not require that the real name of HN90 is published.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN91]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in last period of SDS. Neither group poses a threat, but the officer is currently serving in a 'valuable and sensitve role' so real or cover name are to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN95<br />
| ''Stefan Wesolowski''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1985-1988 deployed into Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> <br />
<br />
Apr 2018: Mitting said he was minded-to refuse application to restrict real name, saying:<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/><br />
:: His deployment was problematical and was terminated by his managers abruptly in 1988. He was medically retired soon after. Little or nothing is known about his current circumstances or concerns, save that it is believed he is aware of the attempts which have been made to contact him in connection with the Inquiry. If he is, he has not responded to them.<br />
:: The [MPS] has made an application for a restriction order in respect of his real name. The grounds of the application are generic. They do not identify the respects, if any, in which his right to respect for his private and family life would be infringed by publication of his real name, beyond referring to a paragraph in the risk assessment created on 27 February 2018 which is, itself, generic.... I am not willing to make a restriction order on Article 8 grounds without some good reason for believing that the right to respect for private and family life would be infringed if real or cover name were published. In the case of HN95, I have no such reason. Further, the real name of HN95 and the circumstances in which he came to join and leave the [SDS] are know to responsible journalists. The latter have been put into the public domain by them. I have no reason to believe that any attempt will be made to restrain publication of that which they know - the real name of HN95. In those circumstances, it would be futile to make a restriction order in respect of the real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN96<br />
| ''[[Michael James (alias)|Michael James]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978-1983 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party & Troop Out Movement.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN97]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s into one group and reported on many others. Ruled that real and cover names will be restricted due to a risk to HN97 which cannot be made public.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN101]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party in 1990s. Contemporary of [[Peter Francis]], and according to [[Bob Lambert]], had 'an involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison, p. 214).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN102]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into anarchist groups in the 1980s. Mitting has restricted real and cover names on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN104<br />
| ''[[Carlo Neri (alias)|Carlo Neri]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed March 2000 to Summer 2006 into Socialist Party and No Platform / Antifa.<br />
<br />
Real name known to the activists he spied upon, and who exposed him.<ref name="mitting.supp.minded-to.23Oct2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171023-supplementary-Minded-to.pdf Supplementary 'Minded-To'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2017 (accessed 23 October 2017 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> During the public hearing of 21 November, it was recognised that Carlo's real name was going to be published, the matter effectively reduced to who did it.<ref name="ucpi.hearing.transcript.21Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171121-Anonymity-application-hearing-day-2-Draft-Transcript.pdf Transcript of hearing of 21 November 2017], Undercover Policing Inquiry, 21 November 2017.</ref> whcih was acknowledged in a ruling of Dec 2017.<ref name="ucpi.HN104.20Dec2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171220-HN-104-Ruling.pdf On the application of HN104 for a restriction order in respect of his real name], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry", 20 December 2017.</ref> Discussions on how to publish the name, while respecting rights of the family are on-going (17 July 2018).<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180717-SDS_anonymity_direction_HN104.pdf Application for a restriction order in respect of HN104 - Direction], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN106<br />
| ''[[Barry_Tomkins_(alias)|Barry Tomkins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1979-1983 deployed into the Spartacist League of Britain. Ruled real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN109]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s; later a Det. Insp. in SDS in 1995 (1980s/1990s). Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN112]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 in training though never actually deployed. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN118<br />
| ''[[Simon Wellings (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 2001-2004 (2007) into Globalise Resistance, Socialist Workers Party and Dissent!<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN122<br />
| ''Neil Richardson''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Revolutionary Communist Party & Class War 1989-1993.<ref name="email.ucpi.12Feb2019">Email to core participants, '20190212-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN122', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 12 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN123]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into left wing groups 1993-1998, one of which 'advocated and practiced the use of violence'. Retired from MPS on health grounds & later diagnosed with a mental health condition in part derived from his deployment. Said to have played a part in activities connected to the spying on the Lawrences. Mentioned in both Ellison Review and Herne II. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN125]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a single left wing group in 1980s. Real and cover names to be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN126]]<br />
| ''Paul Gray''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the Socialist Workers Party and Anti-Nazi League 1977-1982.<ref name="email.ucpi.25June2019">Email to core participants, '20190625-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN126_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN135 / [[Mike Ferguson]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated anti-apartheid campaigners including the 'Stop the Seventy' campaign - 1969-1970. Real name given in ''True Spies'' series.<br />
<br />
20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications applications were to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Mar2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: closed hearing to take place.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> July 2018: 'further investigation necessary befor application to restrict the cover name can be determined. The real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
29 Oct 2019: real name released as already in public domain (see ''True Spies''), but cover name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling16.29Oct2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191029-sds_anonymity-ruling_16_san.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Ruling 16'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 29 October 2019.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN155]]<br />
| ''Phil Cooper''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1979/80 to January 1984. Ruled that real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN200<br />
| ''Roger Harris''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1974-1977. <br />
<br />
Minded-To (March 2018): real name cannot be published; cover name to be published.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
Details released 17 July 2018).<ref name="email.ucpi.14July2018">Email to core participants, '20180717_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN25_HN200_direction_HN104', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 July2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Currently in 70s. Deployment apparently unremarkable. Mitting: no reason to publish real name; and HN200 and wife are concerned about media intrustion.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN218 / N218<br />
| ''Barry Morris''<br />
| SDS undercover and probably manager<br />
| Deployed 1968 into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018"/><br />
<br />
Cover name and real name to be published as no restriction order application made.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> Cover name released May 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018">Email to core participants, '20180501_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN3_HN19_HN20_HN60_HN218_HN353', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 1 May 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Herne II, para. 25.1.2 states: The MPS Director of Intelligence in 1999 has been interviewed by Operation Herne and stated, 'I have been asked if I recall 'any Special Branch plans to mislead the Macpherson Inquiry' into the death of Stephen Lawrence. For part of this time, I was head of Special Branch operations and have no recollection of any such plans.’ Peter Francis has alleged that N218 came out to see him in respect of withholding information from the Macpherson Inquiry. In interview, N218 stated that this meeting or request never happened.<ref name="herne.2"/> There is a strong probablility that N218 is former Special Branch commander [[Barry Moss]].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN241<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into one group in 1970s. Ruling (20 Feb 2018): real and cover names to be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling.20Feb18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-ruling-SDS-anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 4 March 2018).</ref> No allegation of misconduct. Arrested but not charged on one occasion.<ref name="hn241.ra">Brian Lockie, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20171221-HN241-Risk-Assessment.pdf HN241 Risk assessment (open version)], ''Metropolitan Police'', 3 October 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN294]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968-1969 into a group that no longer exists, and reported on others. Held a managerial position in the SDS 1969-1974. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN296<br />
| ''Geoff Wallace''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party from 1975 to 1978;<ref name="email.ucpi.4June2019">Email to core participants, '20190604-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN296_cover_name', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 4 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> no known allegation of misconduct against him. Currently in late 60s.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
He does not live in the UK but is willing to cooperate with the Inquiry.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18"/> Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN297<br />
| ''[[Rick Gibson (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated Troop Out Movement 1974-1976 and tasked to infiltrate Big Flame - discovered and confronted by them in 1976. Multiple sexual relationships. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN298<br />
| ''[[Michael Scott (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971 to 1976 into the Young Liberals, Anti-Apartheid Movement and Workers Revolutionary Party. Convicted in 1972 under his cover name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. His cover surname has not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323 / Helen Crampton<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 to 1972 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in ''True Spies'' under the pseudonym 'Dan'.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover &amp; manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969-1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971-1976 against International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League & Troops Out Movement.<ref name="tw.ucpi.18Dec2018">[https://twitter.com/ucpinquiry/status/1074972312389197826 Cover name released: "David Hughes". Groups: International Marxist Group; Anti-Internment League; Troops Out Movement. Years active: 1971 - 1976.], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (Twitter.com)'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into Anti-Internment League and Northern Minorities Defence Force.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] in 1971.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Womens Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Minded to restrict real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| ''[[Vince Miller (alias)|Vince Miller]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. <br />
|}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=N_officers_1&diff=257529N officers 12021-05-11T09:54:41Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=N Officers list|Description=A list of N &amp; HN cyphers used to designate individual officers in the Inquiry and by Operation Herne (Part 1)}}<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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Due to the number of offices and associated details, the list has been split into several pages. This is page 1, covering N officers with cypher number up to 99. <br />
* For an introduction to the cypher system, see [[N_officers| N Officers (main page)]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 100 - 299, see [[N_officers_2|N officers part 2]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 300 to 399, see [[N_officers_3|N officers part 3]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 400 and higher, see [[N_officers_4|N officers part 4]].<br />
* For a complete list SDS undercover officers see [[SDS undercover list]].<br />
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* ''Updated 3 August 2018''; further details of restriction order applications, etc. can be found under individual officer pages where linked.<br />
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{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name (italics for cover name only)<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN1<br />
| ''[[Matt Rayner (alias)|Matt Rayner]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in north London 1991-1996, including London Boots Action Group, London Animal Action, Animal Liberation Front and West London Hunt Saboteurs. Engaged in sexual relationships. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN2]]<br />
| [[Andy Coles]] a.k.a. ''Andy Davey''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in south London 1991-1995; also targeted peace groups. Engaged in sexual relationships. Authored a version of the SDS Tradecraft manual.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN3<br />
| ''[[Jason Bishop (alias)|Jason Bishop]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2006 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and Disarm DSEi. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN4]]<br />
| ''lrestricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into two branches of one group in late 1980s/early 1990s. Real and cover names restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181108_Ruling_13_final.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Demonstration Squad and Special Duties Squad Ruling 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 November 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N5 / HN5<br />
| [[John Dines]] a.k.a. ''John Barker''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 infiltrated London Greenpeace and Animal Liberation Front. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN6]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against three groups in 1990s. Details restricted due to risk of violence and mental health issues.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN7]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover officer.<br />
| Real and cover name restricted on health grounds. Targets & dates unknown.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN8]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover.<br />
| Deployed into one group in late 1980s / early 1990s. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted on grounds of a physical risk.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN9|N9 / HN9]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer. <br />
| Deployed into one group in 1980s; later was a cover officer for officers of interest deployed in 2000s. Named in Ellison Review. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted as HN9 at risk of suicide if details published.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N10 / HN10<br />
| [[Bob Lambert|Robert "Bob" Lambert]] a.k.a. ''Bob Robinson''<br />
| SDS undercover and head of unit.<br />
| Targeted animal rights groups in north London 1984-1989. Engaged in sexual relationships, including fathering a child by one activist. Later head of the SDS and took part in the Walton-N81 meeting.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN11<br />
| [[Mike Chitty]], a.k.a. ''Mike Blake''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1984-1987 deployed into animal rights groups in south London, including South London Animal Movement. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN12]]<br />
| ''Mike Hartley''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1982-1985, deployed into Revolutionary Communist Group and Socialist Workers Party. Engaged in sexual relationships. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN13]]<br />
| ''Barry / Desmond Loader''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) 1974/5-1978. Twice prosecuted for public order offences in his cover name and convicted once. Deceased. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N14 / HN14<br />
| [[Jim Boyling]] a.k.a. ''"Grumpy" Jim Sutton''<br />
| SDS Undercover. <br />
| 1995-2000 deployed into Essex Hunt Saboteurs, Reclaim the Streets and Earth First! Engaged in sexual relationships and fathered children by an activist.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN15]]<br />
| [[Mark Jenner]] a.k.a. ''Mark Cassidy''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1995-2000 targeted Colin Roach Centre, Anti-Fascist Action, Independent Working Class Association, Republican Forum. Mentioned by Lambert as an SDS UCO who 'would have involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison page 214). Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N16 / HN16 <br />
| ''[[James Straven_(alias)|James Straven]]'' and ''Kevin Crossland''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1997-2002 deployed into the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Brixton and Croydon Hunt Saboteurs. Used two cover names, including the identity of a dead child. Lied about having had relationships with women. As a result, Mitting revoked his decision to restrickt his real name. Both women, 'Sara' and 'Ellie' have been accepted as core participants in late 2018.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN17]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Targeted right wing groups in 1990s (last 15 years of SDS existance).<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN18]]<br />
| ''Rob Harrison''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 2004-2007 into thee International Solidarity Movement (London branch), State of Emergency Collective, No Borders, Globalise Resistance.<ref >Email to core participants, '20181211-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing _HN18', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN19<br />
| ''[[Malcolm Shearing (alias)|Malcolm Shearing]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1981 to 1985 deployed into Revolutionary Communist Party &amp; Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist/Leninist). Arrested and cautioned for bill posting. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN20<br />
| ''[[Tony Williams (alias)|Tony Williams]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978 to 1982 deployed into the Revolutionary Communist Tendency and Direct Action Movement. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN21]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1970s / early 1980s against one group & reported on others. Ruling real and cover name restricted on mental health grounds. Appears as 'Geoff' in True Spies where it is clear he targeted ANL and SWP, and was present at the Grunwick strike.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN22]]<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| 20 Feb 2018: directed that restriction orders applications to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018).</ref> No application made.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/> No application made so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN23]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1990s. Real and cover name to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN24]]<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS Det. Sgt. (management)<br />
| Prior to joining the [SDS] in 2001, HN24 handled and distributed intelligence gathered by deployed undercover officers at the time of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. Also served as a cover officer for undercovers, including [[Carlo Neri (alias)|Carlo Neri]]. Real name to be published. Named as a Detective Sergeant in the SDS at some point in the period 2004-2008.<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN25]]<br />
| ''Kevin Douglas''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 deployed into the Troops Out Movement. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN26<br />
| ''[[Christine Green (alias)|Christine Green]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1994-1999 into animal rights groups including Animal Liberation Front, London Animal Action and West London Hunt Saboteurs.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN27]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of left wing groups in the 1990s. In 60s. Ruling made that real and cover names will be restricted on grounds the officer is 'at risk to life and limb' given the nature of deployment and activities undertaken. Mentioned in Ellison.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN28]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups and reported on others in last 15 years of SDS. Minded to: restrict real and cover names as at risk of serious violence if identity discovered.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/201805223-PN_SDS_MT_9.pdf 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad Ruling on HN122], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref> Had been directed to file anonymity application by 24/27 April 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.19Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180419_direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 April 2018.</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180426_HN28_application.pdf Open application over real and cover names (26 Apr 2018)]<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN29]]<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS management / back office.<br />
| 11 May 2018: directed applications for anonymity to be made by end of month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018"/> However, no application to restrict real name was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-PN-SDS-minded-to-11.pdf Press notice - 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 11], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-11.pdf Counsel to the Inqury's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 9 and Ruling 8 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad: Update as at 21 June 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref> so it will be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN30]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN32<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| Directions has been given to supply any application by end of April 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.19Apr2018"/> No application made, so real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/>. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN33/98<br />
| ''[[Lee Bonser (alias)|Kathryn Lesley 'Lee' Bonser]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Socialist Workers Party. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN34<br />
| ''Geoff Craft''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| Real name to be published; no restriction application made.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN35]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS Det. Sergeant<br />
| SDS cover officer for six undercovers for 2 years during the last period of the existence of the SDS. Ruling (May 2018): real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN36<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS management / back office (DCI in 2004)<br />
| Real name to be published (June 2018).<br />
<br />
11 May 2018: directed that any applications relating to HN36 to be filed by end of the month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018"/> No such application was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Any cover name to be considered at document redaction stage.<ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018"/><ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> <br />
<br />
The Risk Assessment for [[HN30]] notes that HN36 was the Detective Chief Inspector of the SDS, and had approached [[HN30]] to join SDS, apparently at the recommendation of either HN10 or HN90 - she joined in 2004. He was in place during the 2005 G8 Summit protests in Scotland where they oversaw the handling of the arrests of [[Jason Bishop (alias)|Jason Bishop]] and [[Dave Evans (alias)|Dave Evans]]. HN30 also commented on HN36's as being good on welfare support, including implementing a system of undercovers regularly visiting pyschiatrists.<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018">Adrian Baxter, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/11-20180831-HN30-Gisted_Risk_Assessment.pdf N30 - Risk Assessment (gisted)], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 28 August 2018 (accessed 2 October 2018, via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN39<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| Real name to be published (June 2018).<br />
<br />
11 May 2018: directed that any applications relating to HN39 to be filed by end of the month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018"/> No such application was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> No cover name used.<ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN40|N40]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Undercover in last decade of the unit.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> Mentioned in relation to how information from the SDS, particularly on the identities of protestors, was passed on to the rest of the police (Herne II, 13.4, 24.1.3).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN41]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in the 1970s and 1980s, of which the principle target group no longer exists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N43<br />
| Peter Francis, a.k.a. ''Peter Daley / Johnson / Black''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1993-1997 infiltrated Youth against Racism in Europe and Militant & Socialist Party. <br />
<br />
Mentioned in Herne I (3.5, 3.6) though not by real name; his identity can be inferred as he was the only former undercover who provided a video interview to ''the Guardian''.<ref name="herne.1">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-1---Covert-Identities.pdf Operation Herne Report 1: Covert Identities], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', July 2013.</ref> Peter Francis confirmed this was his cypher in a tweet of 23 January 2018.<ref>Peter Francis, [https://twitter.com/realspycop/status/955788147090251776 I really do hope I actually was a #Spycops or all those years of counselling were a total waste of money! Wow just imagine if it turns out I wasn't!! My totally unwanted Police anonymity number was N43], ''Twitter.com'', 23 January 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
On 25 January 2018, the Inquiry revealed that Francis had used three cover identities, 'Peter Johnson', 'Peter Daley' and 'Peter Black'. This was the first public revealing of the alias 'Peter Johnson', a name taken from that of a dead child. The Inquiry noted that it 'has been in touch with Peter Johnson’s close relatives who have made it very clear that they want the media to respect their privacy and not to seek to contact them by any means'.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180125-press-release-Francis.pdf Press notice: No restriction sought over cover identities of Peter Francis], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 January 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN44<br />
| ''Darren Prowse''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Tasked to infiltrate the British National Party in 2007. <ref name="email.ucpi.5June2018">Email to core participants, '20180605_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN44_HN155_HN303', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS-CL_HN44_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] 26 Feb 2018 (published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref>) which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Mitting wrote (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
:: HN44 is a serving Metropolitan Police officer. In the last period of existence of the Special Duties Squad he was deployed to build a legend to permit him to infiltrate violent elements of one group. The Special Duties Squad was closed and his deployment was ended before he had succeeded in doing so. His evidence about the closure of the Squad is likely to be of interest to the Inquiry. In the (very) unlikely event that any member of he target group can provide or wishes to provide any information about him, publication of his cover name, which will occur, is all that is required to prompt them to do so. Publication of his real name would give rise to a real risk of interference in the private and family life of HN44 and his family and a contingent risk to their safety. It is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. It would be neither proportionate nor justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN45<br />
| ''[[Dave Robertson (alias)|David Robertson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| 1970-1973 infiltrated Banner Books, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and maoist groups in North London. Worked in back office in SDS in adminstrative role for 3 years in 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN48<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 11 Jan 2018: directed that restriction orders applications to be submitted by end of Jan 2018.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180111-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 January 2018.</ref> 30 July 2018: further information sought before a decision on the applications.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> This information was still being sought in September 2018.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/> Feb 2019: Mitting restricted real and cover names:<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190212-SDS_Minded_to_Note_14-_and_Ruling_14.pdf 'Minded to' note 14 and Ruling 14], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 February 2019 (accessed 7 April 2019).</ref><br />
: The duties which HN 48 has performed since his/her departure from the SOS have given rise to a real risk of physical harm to him/her and others. The risks remain. Publication of the real or cover name would increase those risks and would not be in the public interest. Although publication of the cover name might prompt the giving of information or evidence which would assist the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference, the benefit to be gained from doing so is outweighed by the harm to the public interest and interference with his/ her right to respect for an aspect of the right to private life - his/her physical integrity - under Article 8 ECHR, which publication of either would cause.<br />
<br />
The [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200114-restriction_order-HN48.pdf Restriction Order] was published 23 October 2020.<br />
<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN49<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS Det. Sgt (management / back office)<br />
| Name to be published (June 2018).<br />
<br />
11 May 2018: directed that any applications relating to HN49 to be filed by end of the month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018"/> No such application was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Any cover name to be considered at document redaction stage.<ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018"/> Served as cover officer in SDS.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Named as a Detective Sergeant in the SDS at some point in the period 2004-2008.<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN51<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS head of unit & back office<br />
| Serve in back office 1981-83, and as Det. Ch. Insp. in operational charged of the SDS Nov 1988 - July 1991. Unlikely to give evidence having suffered 3 strokes which has left them seriously incapacitated.<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/> Mitting wrote:<ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/><br />
:: The evidence which he provided to Operation Herne, in particular about his time as Detective Chief Inspector, is of significant interest to the Inquiry... But for the matters referred to below, he would have been required to provide and give evidence... When I have seen his medical records, it is very likely that I will decide that he cannot participate in the Inquiry, by providing a witness statement or by giving oral evidence.<br />
<br />
11 May 2018: directed that any applications relating to HN51 to be filed by end of the month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018"/> No such application was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Any cover name to be considered at document redaction stage.<ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN52<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| SDS Sergeant. In received the 1998 memo from Bob Lambert on the meeting between [[Richard Walton]] and [[N81]] (Ellison Review, p. 229).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
<br />
11 May 2018: directed that any applications relating to HN52 to be filed by end of the month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018"/> No such application was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Any cover name to be considered at document redaction stage.<ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN53|HN53/N53]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1980s; Second in Operational Command of SDS 1998-2005 (Det. Insp.). Though evidence is of importance to Inquiry, there is a contingent physical risk which justifies restricting real and cover names. Mentioned in Herne I & II, and Ellison. Ruled that neither real or cover names can be released by the Inquiry.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN56<br />
| ''[[Alan 'Nick' Nicholson (alias)|Alan 'Nick' Nicholson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1990-1991 targeted British National Party.<ref name = covernamesApril>Undercover Policing Inquiry, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ Update of Cover names page], ucpi.org.uk, 17 April 2018.</ref> Real name to be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN58]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| DCI in charge of SDS 1997 - 2001. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN59]]<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| SDS back office staff.<br />
| Served in SDS in late 1980s / early 1990s. Real name to be given 'when evidence relating to them is published before hearings'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.25Jan18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180124-December-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press Notice: Decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 January 2018.</ref> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN60<br />
| ''[[Dave Evans (alias)|Dave Evans]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2005 deployed into Socialist Workers Party, London Animal Action & Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN61<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office staff / manager.<ref name="ucpi.pr2.15Jan2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180115-Nov-minded-to-press-note.pdf Press notice - ‘Minded-to’ anonymity: Special Demonstration Squad Officers (HN13, HN296, HN304, HN339, HN340, HN354, HN356/124, HN61, HN819, HN109, HN9, HN66)], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018.</ref><br />
| No application for a restriction order was made.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018.</ref> Real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN64]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in 1990s and reported on others.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> Real and cover names restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN65<br />
| ''John Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1980 - 1984 targeted Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN65_application.pdf Application made to restrict real and cover names] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/> [https://cnduk.org/statement-on-police-infiltration-of-cnd/ CND statement]<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
In March 2018, Mitting wrote:<br />
:: N65 is a sexagenarian. HN65 was deployed against one group in the early 1980s. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry. The group, which was well known, posed no serious threat to public order. Its members posed,and pose, no risk to the safety of HN65. One of the issues which the Inquiry must investigate, publicly, is why HN65 was deployed against the group and what, if anything, was done with intelligence provided on it by HN65. HN65 is likely to be the principal, perhaps only, source of information about these issues. Publication of the cover name of HN65, together with the name of the group infiltrated, should prompt further information and evidence from members of the group, likely to be of value to the Inquiry.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names will be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN66<br />
| ''[[Edward David Jones (alias)|Edward David Jones (Bob the Builder, Edge, Dave)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against London Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action (Drax) 2005-2007 for SDS.<ref name="email.ucpi.8Jan2018">Email to core participants, '20190108-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN66', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 January 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> but also against WOMBLES for six months in 2001, using same alias for the NPOIU. Also has cipher EN327<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN67<br />
| ''[[Alan Bond (alias)|Alan Bond]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1981 - 1986 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="email.ucpi.7June2018">Email to core participants, '20180607_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN67_HN68_HAB_CP19', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Admits to having a 'fleeting sexual encounter in his cover name with one woman who was not a member of his target group'. Later second in command of SDS for three years in 1990s. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN68<br />
| ''[[Sean Lynch (alias)|Sean Lynch]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1968-74 infiltrated Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign and Sinn Féin (London). Held managerial position in SDS 1982-84. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN69<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS head of unit<br />
| Chief Inspector, heading up SDS 1986-1987. In his statement to Op. Herne stated '…new recruits were instructed on how to go about obtaining false birth certificates. They would obtain details of a deceased person of a similar age from Somerset House and then use those details to go about creating their legend.' (Herne I, 3.1)<ref name="herne.1"/><br />
<br />
11 May 2018: directed that any applications relating to HN69 to be filed by end of the month.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11May2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> No such application was made<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018"/><ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> No cover name used.<ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN71]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in 1990s and 2000s / last 15 years of the existence of the SDS.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN72]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager - probably Det. Insp. 2005/2006.<br />
| Deployed for short period in 1980s into one group (inferred as 1986-1987). Held significant managerial position in SDS (approx 2005/6), after Macpherson; considered to have important evidence to give regarding spying on the Lawerence family. Real and cover name restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN76]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in last years of the SDS into one group and reported on others. Mitting has ruled real and cover name will be restricted as HN76 is a serving police officer 'engaged in sensitive duties', so it would not be in the public interest to 'put performance of those duties at risk'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN77<br />
| ''[[Jackie Anderson (alias)|Jaqueline "Jackie" Anderson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2000-2005 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and the WOMBLES. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN78<br />
| ''[[Bobby_Lewis_(alias)|Anthony "Bobby" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1991-1995 into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190716-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN78_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 16 July 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Previously described as deployed Summer 1991-1995 deployed into left wing groups, including some near the Lawrence campaign; joined Special Branch 1986, and SDS in 1991 - leaving that unit by 1996. (Herne II, 12.2; Ellison, 6.4). Aware of Peter Francis' role; said he heard nothing indicating material to smear the Lawrences was being sought (Herne II, 21.1.14; Ellison, 6.3(p), 6.4). Considerable material from him covered in section 6.4 of the Ellison Review (Vol.1).<ref name="herne.2"/><ref name="ellison.1"/><br />
<br />
19 September 2019: two women who had been in relationships with Bobby Lewis were granted core participancy.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190917-ruling-CP_31-RLR_25-costs_24_san.pdf Core participants Ruling 31, Recognised Legal Representatives Ruling 25, Costs of Legal Representation Awards Ruling 24, Applications for a restriction orders by "Bea" and "Jenny"], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 September 2019.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN79<br />
| ''Ross 'RossCo' MacInnes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 tasked against the United British Alliance.<br />
<br />
15 May 2018, Mitting ruled that the real name would be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
Open application published 17 April 2018.<br />
<br />
22 Mar 2018: minded to: restrict real name, and noted:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
:: HN79 was the last undercover officer to be recruited into the Special Duties Squad. He was not fully deployed: the Squad was disbanded before he could be. He found the experience a stressful and unhappy one. He is a serving police officer and is concerned about the impact of the disclosure, in connection with his would-be role as an undercover officer in the Squad, of his real name on his current police duties and on his family. <br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name released April 2018. Ruling of May 2018: real name restricted; application over cover name rejected.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
26 Feb 2018: MPS submit [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180226-MPS-HN79_Application.pdf application to restrict real name only].<br />
<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN80<br />
| ''Colin Clark''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1977 - 1982 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name and groups released 26 June 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018">Email to core participants, '20180626_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN80_HN88_HN90_HN106_HN340', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN80_application.pdf Application made to restrict cover and real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN80 is a septuagenarian. HN80 was deployed as an undercover officer against one group in the late 1970s and early 1980s and encountered and reported on many others. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry because of its length and range and because, according to HN80, it involved a good deal of self-tasking. Publication of the cover name of HN80 may prompt information or evidence from those who encountered HN80 during the deployment. Publication of the real name of HN80 is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would interfere with the right ofHN80 to respect for private and family life. HN80 has expressed fears, which do not appear to be objectively justified, about the risk of violence posed by former targets and their associates. I am prepared to accept that the fears are genuinely held. On the basis of what is t present known, it would be neither proportionate nor justified under article 8(2) of the European Convention to override those fears by refusing to make a restriction order in respect of the real name. <br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[N81|HN81 / N81]]<br />
| ''Dave Hagan''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1996-2001 targeted Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy and Movement for Justice. Referred to extensively in the [[Ellison Review]] in relation to the targeting of the family of Stephen Lawrence. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN82<br />
| ''Nicholas Green''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1982 to 1986 into Socialist Workers Party and Red Action.<ref>Email to core participants, '20180814-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN82_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 August 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> (Previously described as being deployed against two groups in 1980s, one of which said to be violent.) Deceased. Risk assessor finds no risk to safety of his widow, but she has expressed concern all the same, and 'feels' the risk is real. Mitting in his Minded-To of March 2018 indicates the real name shall be restricted while opportunity given to widow of HN82 to make a personal representation at a closed hearing about publication of cover name. Mitting not prepared to act on something vague, but given chance HN82's real name could be discovered via his cover name, the Chair is giving her a chance to make a representation at a closed hearing in respect of the cover name. A closed note also accompanies the open reasons provided in the Minded To.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018.</ref> Subsequent to this, the Inquiry website at unknown date listed the cover name as 'to be published'. 8 Nov 2018: real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/><br />
<br />
13 Sept 2018: "On behalf of HN82's widow the opportunity to pursue a cover name restriction was declined." Application over real name made, with Mitting minded to grant it; open application will be published with date set for responses.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
2 October 2018: the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/14-20170129-MPS-HN82-Open_Application.pdf] applied for by the Metropolitan police to restrict HN82's real name was released,<ref>Department of Legal Services, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/14-20170129-MPS-HN82-Open_Application.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN82], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 29 January 2017 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> with a deadline for responses give as 23 October.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20181001-direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps-in-September-batch.pdf Restriction Order Applications by HN4, HN13, HN25, HN30, HN33, HN82, HN96. HN200 and HN304], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 October 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
8 November 2018: Mitting ruled that the officer's real name will be restricted for the purposes of the Inquiry on the grounds it would not assist the Inquiry to get to the truth of his deployment and because of the harm to the widow it would cause.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/> The [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200114-restriction_order-HN82.pdf Restriction Order] published 23 Oct 2020.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| [[HN83]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed against one group in mid-1980s; real and cover names restricted due to risk to officer's personal safety. Later in career did welfare work with SDS.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N85 / HN85<br />
| [[Roger Pearce]] a.k.a. ''Roger Thorley''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1979-1984 infiltrated Freedom Press and anarchist groups. Later Head of Special Branch and Director of Intelligence for Metropolitan Police Service. Mentioned in the first Operation Herne report and the Ellison Review.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN86]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| SDS undercover in late 1970s / early 1980s 'against groups whose principle activities during that time are outside the terms of reference of the Inquiry'. Later Det. Ch. Insp. in operational charge of the SDS for a period in 1990s, and temporary head of S Squad. Mentioned by Herne and Ellison, inlcuding in relation to spying on the Lawrence family. Mitting has ruled the real and cover names will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN87]]<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s/1990s. Real and cover names restricted for reasons which cannot be made public.<ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN88<br />
| ''[[Timothy Spence (alias)|Timothy Spence]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated the Stoke Newington and Hackney Defence Campaign and the Hackney Campaign Against the Police Bill. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN89 / N89<br />
| ''cover name to come''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated far right in 1990s and 'involved in public order situations where left and right attended'; contemporary of Peter Francis who would confide in N89.<ref name="ellison.1"/> Deceased; real and cover name to be published as no application made to restrict details (Nov 2017 minded-to).<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN90<br />
| ''Mark Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1988-1992 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party and City of London Anti-Apartheid Group.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018"/><br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN90_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
March 2018: Mitting minded to publish cover name but restrict real name, writing:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN90 is a sexagenarian. HN90 was deployed into one group, after a short deployment in another, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The deployment appears to have been unremarkable. The risk to the safety of HN90 arising out of it is nil or negligible. The deployment is, nevertheless, of significant interest to the Inquiry, for at least two reasons: it spanned the period during which the Cold War ended and the focus of undercover deployments may have changed; and it included reporting on Poll Tax demonstrations. Fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry requires that these issues are explored publicly and that those with whom HN90 may have interacted have the opportunity of providing information or evidence about the deployment... It does not require that the real name of HN90 is published. <br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN91]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in last period of SDS. Neither group poses a threat, but the officer is currently serving in a 'valuable and sensitve role' so real or cover name are to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN95<br />
| ''Stefan Wesolowski''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1985-1988 deployed into Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Apr 2018: Mitting said he was minded-to refuse application to restrict real name, saying:<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/><br />
:: His deployment was problematical and was terminated by his managers abruptly in 1988. He was medically retired soon after. Little or nothing is known about his current circumstances or concerns, save that it is believed he is aware of the attempts which have been made to contact him in connection with the Inquiry. If he is, he has not responded to them.<br />
:: The [MPS] has made an application for a restriction order in respect of his real name. The grounds of the application are generic. They do not identify the respects, if any, in which his right to respect for his private and family life would be infringed by publication of his real name, beyond referring to a paragraph in the risk assessment created on 27 February 2018 which is, itself, generic.... I am not willing to make a restriction order on Article 8 grounds without some good reason for believing that the right to respect for private and family life would be infringed if real or cover name were published. In the case of HN95, I have no such reason. Further, the real name of HN95 and the circumstances in which he came to join and leave the [SDS] are know to responsible journalists. The latter have been put into the public domain by them. I have no reason to believe that any attempt will be made to restrain publication of that which they know - the real name of HN95. In those circumstances, it would be futile to make a restriction order in respect of the real name.<br />
<br />
11 Jan 2018, directed restriction orders application to be submitted by end of Jan 2018.<ref name="ucpi.directions.11Jan2018"/> Minded To (March 2018): application delayed.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018"/> Apr 2018: Mitting orders that HN95 'should provide notification that they wish to be heard in closed hearing' by 7 May 2018, with skeleton argument setting out objections to his Minded To to reject application to restrict real name to be provided by 11 May 2018.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8directions.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-directions_to_accompany_Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad Directions following publication of 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> No application was made to restrict the cover name, which will be published in due course. A response from HN95 to have real name restricted was recieved and went to a closed hearing.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: Mitting refuses to make ruling restricting real name of HN95.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_Minded-to_12_and_Ruling_10.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
12 March 2019: cover name released.<ref name="email.ucpi.12Mar2019">Email to core participants, '20190312-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN95', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 12 Mar 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN96<br />
| ''[[James Michael (alias)|James Michael]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978-1983 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party & Troop Out Movement. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN97]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s into one group and reported on many others. Ruled that real and cover name will be restricted due to a risk to HN97 which cannot be made public.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN99<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS management / back office<br />
| No application for restriction order made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=SDS_undercover_list&diff=257485SDS undercover list2021-04-03T12:16:27Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=SDS undercover list|Description=A list of all publicly known officers who served undercover with the Special Demonstration Squad, 1968-2008}}<br />
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This page carries a full list of publicly identified undercover police officers who served with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]], their anonymity status within the Undercover Policing Inquiry, and with links to profiles were done. For a more comprehensive list of all N/HN officers in Operation Herne, Ellisor Review and the Undercover Policing Inquiry see the [[N officers]] page.<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* ''Updated 25 September 2019''<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN1<br />
| ''[[Matt Rayner (alias)|Matt Rayner]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in north London 1991-1996, including London Boots Action Group, London Animal Action, Animal Liberation Front and West London Hunt Saboteurs. Engaged in sexual relationships. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN2]]<br />
| [[Andy Coles]] a.k.a. ''Andy Davey''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer<br />
| Infiltrated animal rights groups in south London 1991-1995; also targeted peace groups. Engaged in sexual relationships. Authored a version of the SDS Tradecraft manual. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN3<br />
| ''[[Jason Bishop (alias)|Jason Bishop]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2006 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and Disarm DSEi. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN4]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into two branches of one group in late 1980s/early 1990s.<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-PN-SDS-minded-to-11.pdf Press notice - 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N5 / HN5<br />
| [[John Dines]] a.k.a. ''John Barker''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 infiltrated London Greenpeace and Animal Liberation Front. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN6]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against three groups in 1990s. Cover and real name restricted due to risk of violence and mental health issues.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN7]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover officer.<br />
| Real and cover names restricted on health grounds. Targets & dates unknown.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN8]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover.<br />
| Deployed into one group in late 1980s / early 1990s. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted on grounds of a physical risk.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN9|N9 / HN9]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & cover officer. <br />
| Deployed into one group in 1980s; later was a cover officer for officers of interest deployed in 2000s. Named in Ellison Review. Mitting has ruled real and cover names shall be restricted as HN9 at risk of suicide if details published.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N10 / HN10<br />
| [[Bob Lambert|Robert "Bob" Lambert]] a.k.a. ''Bob Robinson''<br />
| SDS undercover and head of unit.<br />
| Targeted animal rights groups in north London 1984-1989. Engaged in sexual relationships, including fathering a child by one activist. Later head of the SDS and took part in the Walton-N81 meeting.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN11<br />
| [[Mike Chitty]], a.k.a. ''Mike Blake''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1984-1987 deployed into animal rights groups in south London, including South London Animal Movement. Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN12]]<br />
| ''Mike Hartley''<br />
| SDS Undercover<br />
| 1982-1985, deployed into Revolutionary Communist Group and Socialist Workers Party. Engaged in sexual relationships. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN13]]<br />
| ''Barry / Desmond Loader''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) 1974/5-1978. Twice prosecuted for public order offences in his cover name and convicted once. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N14 / HN14<br />
| [[Jim Boyling]] a.k.a. ''"Grumpy" Jim Sutton''<br />
| SDS Undercover. <br />
| 1995-2000 deployed into Essex Hunt Saboteurs, Reclaim the Streets and Earth First! Engaged in sexual relationships and fathered children by an activist.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN15]]<br />
| [[Mark Jenner]] a.k.a. ''Mark Cassidy''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1995-2000 targeted Colin Roach Centre, Anti-Fascist Action, Independent Working Class Association, Republican Forum. Mentioned by Lambert as an SDS UCO who 'would have involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison page 214). Engaged in sexual relationships.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N16 / HN16 <br />
| ''[[James Straven_(alias)|James Straven]]'' and ''Kevin Crossland''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1997-2002 deployed into the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Brixton and Croydon Hunt Saboteurs. Used two cover names, including the identity of a dead child. Lied about having had relationships with women. One of them, 'Ellie', came forward.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN17]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Targeted right wing groups in 1990s (last 15 years of SDS existence).<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN18]]<br />
| ''[[Rob Harrison (alias)|Rob Harrison]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2004-2007 deployed into State of Emergency Collective, No Borders London, Globalise Resistance, rampART and the International Solidarity Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN19<br />
| ''[[Malcolm Shearing (alias)|Malcolm Shearing]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1981 to 1985 deployed into Revolutionary Communist Party &amp; Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist/Leninist). Arrested and cautioned for bill posting. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN20<br />
| ''[[Tony Williams (alias)|Tony Williams]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978 to 1982 deployed into the Revolutionary Communist Tendency and Direct Action Movement. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN21]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed late 1970s / early 1980s against one group & reported on others. Ruled that real and cover names to be restricted on mental health grounds. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN23]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1990s. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN25]]<br />
| ''Kevin Douglas'<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1987-1991 deployed into the Troops Out Movement<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN26<br />
| ''[[Christine Green (alias)|Christine Green]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1994-1999 into animal rights groups including Animal Liberation Front, London Animal Action and West London Hunt Saboteurs.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN27]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of left wing groups in the 1990s. In 60s. Ruling made that real and cover names will be restricted on grounds the officer is 'at risk to life and limb' given the nature of deployment and activities undertaken. Mentioned in Ellison.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN28<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups and reported on others in last 15 years of SDS. Minded to: restrict real and cover names as at risk of serious violence if identity discovered.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/201805223-PN_SDS_MT_9.pdf 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad Ruling on HN122], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref> Had been directed to file anonymity application by 24/27 April 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.19Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180419_direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 April 2018.</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180426_HN28_application.pdf Open application over real and cover names (26 Apr 2018)]<br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_ruling_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN33/98<br />
| ''[[Lee Bonser (alias)|Kathryn Lesley 'Lee' Bonser]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Socialist Workers Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN40|N40]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Undercover in last decade of the unit.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> Mentioned in relation to how information from the SDS, particularly on the identities of protestors, was passed on to the rest of the police (Herne II, 13.4, 24.1.3).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN41]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in the 1970s and 1980s, of which the principle target group no longer exists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N43<br />
| Peter Francis, a.k.a. ''Peter Daley / Johnson / Black''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1993-1997 infiltrated Youth against Racism in Europe and Militant & Socialist Party.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN44<br />
| ''Darren Prowse''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Tasked to infiltrate the British National Party in 2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.5June2018">Email to core participants, '20180605_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN44_HN155_HN303', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS-CL_HN44_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] 26 Feb 2018 (published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website_MTN_9_10_11-Officers_document_list.pdf List of documents relating to SOS officers - published 09 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref>) which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-NPOIU_SDS-press_notice-anonymity-docs-FINAL.pdf Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 9 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Mitting wrote (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
:: HN44 is a serving Metropolitan Police officer. In the last period of existence of the Special Duties Squad he was deployed to build a legend to permit him to infiltrate violent elements of one group. The Special Duties Squad was closed and his deployment was ended before he had succeeded in doing so. His evidence about the closure of the Squad is likely to be of interest to the Inquiry. In the (very) unlikely event that any member of he target group can provide or wishes to provide any information about him, publication of his cover name, which ill occur, is all that is required to prompt them to do so. Publication of his real name would give rise to a eal risk of interference in the private and family life of HN44 and his family and a contingent risk to their safety. It is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. It would be neither proportionate nor justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN45<br />
| ''[[Dave Robertson (alias)|Dave Robertson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| 1970-1973 infiltrated Banner Books, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and maoist groups in North London. Worked in back office in SDS in adminstrative role for 3 years in 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN48<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN53|HN53/N53]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1980s; Second in Operational Command of SDS 1998-2005 (Det. Insp.). Though evidence is of importance to Inquiry, there is a contingent physical risk which justifies restricting real and cover names. Mentioned in Herne I & II, and Ellison. Ruled that neither real or cover names can be released by the Inquiry.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN56<br />
| ''[[Alan 'Nick' Nicholson (alias)|Alan 'Nick' Nicholson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1990-1991 targeted British National Party.<ref name = covernamesApril>Undercover Policing Inquiry, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ Update of Cover names page], ucpi.org.uk, 17 April 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN58]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| DCI in charge of SDS 1997 - 2001. Real and cover names to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN60<br />
| ''[[Dave Evans (alias)|Dave Evans]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1998-2005 deployed into Socialist Workers Party, London Animal Action & Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN64]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in 1990s and reported on others.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN65<br />
| ''John Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1980 - 1984 targeted Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref name="email.ucpi.19June2018">Email to core participants, '20180619_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN65_HN351_HN354', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN65_application.pdf Application made to restrict real and cover names] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/> [https://cnduk.org/statement-on-police-infiltration-of-cnd/ CND statement]<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
In March 2018, Mitting wrote:<br />
:: N65 is a sexagenarian. HN65 was deployed against one group in the early 1980s. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry. The group, which was well known, posed no serious threat to public order. Its embers posed,and pose, no risk to the safety of HN65. One of the issues which the Inquiry must investigate, publicly, is why HN65 was deployed against the group and what, if anything, was done with intelligence provided on it by HN65. HN65 is likely to be the principal, perhaps only, source of information about these issues. Publication of the cover name of HN65, together with the name of the group infiltrated, should prompt further information and evidence from members of the group, likely to be of value to the Inquiry.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN66<br />
| ''[[Edward David Jones (alias)|Edward David Jones (Bob the Builder, Edge, Dave)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against London Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action (Drax) 2005-2007.<ref name="email.ucpi.8Jan2018">Email to core participants, '20190108-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN66', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 January 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> In 60s.<br />
<br />
HN66 is the same as the NPOIU officer EN327.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180502_press_notice_NPOIU_anonymity.pdf Press Notice: 'Minded to' note: applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 2 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN67<br />
| ''[[Alan Bond (alias)|Alan Bond]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1981- 86 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="email.ucpi.7June2018">Email to core participants, '20180607_UCPI_to_all_CPs_HN67_HN68_HAB_CP19', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Admits to having a 'fleeting sexual encounter in his cover name with one woman who was not a member of his target group'. Later second in command of SDS for three years in 1990s. Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN68<br />
| ''[[Sean Lynch (alias)|Sean Lynch]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1968-74 infiltrated Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign and Sinn Féin (London). Held managerial position in SDS 1982-84. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN71]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in 1990s and 2000s / last 15 years of the existence of the SDS.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HN7Ruling.27Mar2018">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180327-Final-ruling-following-21-March-hearing.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad Ruling 5 ], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN72]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed for short period in 1980s into one group (inferred as 1986-1987). Held significant managerial position in SDS (approx 2005/6), after Macpherson; considered to have important evidence to give regarding spying on the Lawrence family. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN76]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in last years of the SDS into one group and reported on others. Mitting has ruled real and cover names will be restricted as HN76 is a serving police officer 'engaged in sensitive duties', so it would not be in the public interest to 'put performance of those duties at risk'.<ref name="ucpi.pr.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-conatent/uploads/2018/05/20180523-Minded_to_note_9_and_ruling_8.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad 'Minded to' note 9 and Ruling 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 May 2018.</ref><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN77<br />
| ''[[Jackie Anderson (alias)|Jaqueline "Jackie" Anderson]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2000-2005 infiltrated Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! and the WOMBLES.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN78<br />
| ''[[Bobby_Lewis| Anthony "Bobby" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1991 - 1995 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190716-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN78_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 16 July 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Previously described as deployed Summer 1991-1995 deployed into left wing groups, including some near the Lawrence campaign; joined Special Branch 1986, and SDS in 1991 - leaving that unit by 1996. (Herne II, 12.2; Ellison, 6.4). Aware of Peter Francis' role; said he heard nothing indicating material to smear the Lawrences was being sought (Herne II, 21.1.14; Ellison, 6.3(p), 6.4). Considerable material from him covered in section 6.4 of the Ellison Review (Vol.1).<ref name="herne.2"/><ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN78 is a sexagenarian. HN78 was deployed into two or three groups in the early 1990s. HN78 admits to a relationship with a member of the opposite sex during the deployment. The Inquiry must investigate deployments into these groups, including that of HN78... Further, members of the target groups must have the opportunity to give evidence about the deployment of HN78. To do that, they will need to know the cover name. <br />
<br />
Decision to restrict real name but publish cover name reiterated on 6 June 2018, when Mitting wrote:<ref name="ucpi.minded-to10.6June2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180606-Minded_to_10_and_ruling_9.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' note 10 and Ruling 9], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 6 June 2018.</ref><br />
: I repeat the reasons set out in the "minded to" note 6 dated 22 March 2018. Further, HN78 has now provided a detailed personal statement in support of the application for a restriction order in respect of the cover name. It provides information about the reasons for the deployments referred to in paragraph 20 of "minded to" note 6, which must be explored in public. It is also necessary that the cover name of HN78 is published, to permit members of the target groups to provide evidence about the deployments and their own activities.<br />
: The reasons for the ruling are those set out in the closed note referred to in paragraph 21 of "minded to" note 6 and in the closed note which accompanies this ruling.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
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| HN79<br />
| ''Ross 'RossCo' MacInnes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 tasked against the United British Alliance.<br />
<br />
22 Mar 2018: minded to: restrict real name, and noted:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
:: HN79 was the last undercover officer to be recruited into the Special Duties Squad. He was not fully deployed: the Squad was disbanded before he could be. He found the experience a stressful and unhappy one. He is a serving police officer and is concerned about the impact of the disclosure, in connection with his would-be role as an undercover officer in the Squad, of his real name on his current police duties and on his family. <br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018: directed that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of that month.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name released April 2018. Ruling of May 2018: real name restricted; application over cover name rejected.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
26 Feb 2018: MPS submit [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180226-MPS-HN79_Application.pdf application to restrict real name only].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN80<br />
| ''Colin Clark''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1977-1982 deployed into Socialist Workers Party & Anti-Nazi League.<br />
<br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> Cover name and groups released 26 June 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018">Email to core participants, '20180626_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN80_HN88_HN90_HN106_HN340', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names]</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN80_application.pdf Application made to restrict cover and real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant for the real name restriction.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
Minded to (March 2018):<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN80 is a septuagenarian. HN80 was deployed as an undercover officer against one group in the late 1970s and early 1980s and encountered and reported on many others. The deployment is of significant interest to the Inquiry because of its length and range and because, according to HN80, it involved a good deal of self-tasking. Publication of the cover name of HN80 may prompt information or evidence from those who encountered HN80 during the deployment. Publication of the real name of HN80 is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and would interfere with the right ofHN80 to respect for private and family life. HN80 has expressed fears, which do not appear to be objectively justified, about the risk of violence posed by former targets and their associates. I am prepared to accept that the fears are genuinely held. On the basis of what is t present known, it would be neither proportionate nor justified under article 8(2) of the European Convention to override those fears by refusing to make a restriction order in respect of the real name. <br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180709-SDS_NPOIU_direction-for-NSCPs-to-respond-to-open-evidence-and-apps.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: final ruling that real name cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[N81|HN81 / N81]]<br />
| ''Dave Hagan''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1996-2001 targeted Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy and Movement for Justice. Referred to extensively in the [[Ellison Review]] in relation to the targeting of the family of Stephen Lawrence. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN82<br />
| ''Nicholas Green''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1982 to 1986 into Socialist Workers Party and Red Action.<ref>Email to core participants, '20180814-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN82_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 August 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> (Previously described as being deployed against two groups in 1980s, one of which said to be violent.) Deceased. Risk assessor finds no risk to safety of his widow, but she has expressed concern all the same, and 'feels' the risk is real. Mitting in his Minded-To of March 2018 indicates the real name shall be restricted while opportunity given to widow of HN82 to make a personal representation at a closed hearing about publication of cover name. Mitting not prepared to act on something vague, but given chance HN82's real name could be discovered via his cover name, the Chair is giving her a chance to make a representation at a closed hearing in respect of the cover name. A closed note also accompanies the open reasons provided in the Minded To.<ref name="mitting.mindedto5.7Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180307-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-5.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005. Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 7 March 2018 (accessed 10 March 2018).</ref> Subsequent to this, the Inquiry website at unknown date listed the cover name as 'to be published'. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| [[HN83]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group in mid-1980s; name restricted due to risk to officer's personal safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N85 / HN85<br />
| [[Roger Pearce]] a.k.a. ''Roger Thorley''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| 1979-1984 infiltrated Freedom Press and anarchist groups. Later Head of Special Branch and Director of Intelligence for Metropolitan Police Service. Mentioned in the first Operation Herne report and the Ellison Review.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN86|HN86 / N86]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| SDS undercover in late 1970s / early 1980s 'against groups whose principle activities during that time are outside the terms of reference of the Inquiry'. Later Det. Ch. Insp. in operational charge of the SDS for a period in 1990s, and temporary head of S Squad. Mentioned by Herne and Ellison, inlcuding in relation to spying on the Lawrence family. Mitting has ruled the real and cover names will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN87]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s/1990s. Real and cover names restricted for reasons which cannot be made public.<ref name="mitting.mindedto9.23May2018"/><ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN88<br />
| ''[[Timothy Spence (alias)|Timothy Spence]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1983-1987 infiltrated the Stoke Newington and Hackney Defence Campaign and the Hackney Campaign Against the Police Bill. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN89 / N89<br />
| ''cover name to come''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated far right in 1990s and 'involved in public order situations where left and right attended'; contemporary of Peter Francis who would confide in N89.<ref name="ellison.1"/> Deceased; real and cover names to be published as no application made to restrict details (Nov 2017 minded-to).<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN90<br />
| ''Mark Kerry''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1988-1992 infiltrated Socialist Workers Party and City of London Anti-Apartheid Group.<ref name="email.ucpi.26June2018"/><br />
20 Feb 2018, directions issued that applications for restriction orders to be submitted by end of Feb 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180226-MPS_CL-HN90_application.pdf Application made to restrict real name] (26 Feb 2018), published 9 July 2018<ref name="ucpi.doclist.9July2018"/> which Mitting is minded to grant.<ref name="ucpi.pr.9July2018"/><br />
<br />
March 2018: Mitting minded to publish cover name but restrict real name, writing:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
: HN90 is a sexagenarian. HN90 was deployed into one group, after a short deployment in another, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The deployment appears to have been unremarkable. The risk to the safety of HN90 arising out of it is nil or negligible. The deployment is, nevertheless, of significant interest to the Inquiry, for at least two reasons: it spanned the period during which the Cold War ended and the focus of undercover deployments may have changed; and it included reporting on Poll Tax demonstrations. Fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry requires that these issues are explored publicly and that those with whom HN90 may have interacted have the opportunity of providing information or evidence about the deployment... It does not require that the real name of HN90 is published.<br />
<br />
9 July 2018: directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to restrict the real name to be made by 20 July 2018.<ref name="mitting.directions.9July2018"/> 30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover names cannot be published.<ref name="mitting.ruling11.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN91]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against two groups in last period of SDS. Neither group poses a threat, but the officer is currently serving in a 'valuable and sensitve role' so real or cover name are to be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN95<br />
| ''Stefan Wesolowski''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1985-1988 deployed into Socialist Workers Party.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> <br />
<br />
Apr 2018: Mitting said he was minded-to refuse application to restrict real name, saying:<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/><br />
:: His deployment was problematical and was terminated by his managers abruptly in 1988. He was medically retired soon after. Little or nothing is known about his current circumstances or concerns, save that it is believed he is aware of the attempts which have been made to contact him in connection with the Inquiry. If he is, he has not responded to them.<br />
:: The [MPS] has made an application for a restriction order in respect of his real name. The grounds of the application are generic. They do not identify the respects, if any, in which his right to respect for his private and family life would be infringed by publication of his real name, beyond referring to a paragraph in the risk assessment created on 27 February 2018 which is, itself, generic.... I am not willing to make a restriction order on Article 8 grounds without some good reason for believing that the right to respect for private and family life would be infringed if real or cover name were published. In the case of HN95, I have no such reason. Further, the real name of HN95 and the circumstances in which he came to join and leave the [SDS] are know to responsible journalists. The latter have been put into the public domain by them. I have no reason to believe that any attempt will be made to restrain publication of that which they know - the real name of HN95. In those circumstances, it would be futile to make a restriction order in respect of the real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN96<br />
| ''[[Michael James (alias)|Michael James]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1978-1983 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party & Troop Out Movement.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN97]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1980s into one group and reported on many others. Ruled that real and cover names will be restricted due to a risk to HN97 which cannot be made public.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN101]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party in 1990s. Contemporary of [[Peter Francis]], and according to [[Bob Lambert]], had 'an involvement in Stephen Lawrence campaign issues' (Ellison, p. 214).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN102]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into anarchist groups in the 1980s. Mitting has restricted real and cover names on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN104<br />
| ''[[Carlo Neri (alias)|Carlo Neri]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed March 2000 to Summer 2006 into Socialist Party and No Platform / Antifa.<br />
<br />
Real name known to the activists he spied upon, and who exposed him.<ref name="mitting.supp.minded-to.23Oct2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171023-supplementary-Minded-to.pdf Supplementary 'Minded-To'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2017 (accessed 23 October 2017 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> During the public hearing of 21 November, it was recognised that Carlo's real name was going to be published, the matter effectively reduced to who did it.<ref name="ucpi.hearing.transcript.21Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171121-Anonymity-application-hearing-day-2-Draft-Transcript.pdf Transcript of hearing of 21 November 2017], Undercover Policing Inquiry, 21 November 2017.</ref> whcih was acknowledged in a ruling of Dec 2017.<ref name="ucpi.HN104.20Dec2017">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171220-HN-104-Ruling.pdf On the application of HN104 for a restriction order in respect of his real name], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry", 20 December 2017.</ref> Discussions on how to publish the name, while respecting rights of the family are on-going (17 July 2018).<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180717-SDS_anonymity_direction_HN104.pdf Application for a restriction order in respect of HN104 - Direction], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 July 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN106<br />
| ''[[Barry_Tomkins_(alias)|Barry Tomkins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1979-1983 deployed into the Spartacist League of Britain. Ruled real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN109]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s; later a Det. Insp. in SDS in 1995 (1980s/1990s). Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN112]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 2007 in training though never actually deployed. Real and cover names restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN118<br />
| ''[[Simon Wellings (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 2001-2004 (2007) into Globalise Resistance, Socialist Workers Party and Dissent!<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN122<br />
| ''Neil Richardson''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Revolutionary Communist Party & Class War 1989-1993.<ref name="email.ucpi.12Feb2019">Email to core participants, '20190212-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN122', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 12 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN123]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into left wing groups 1993-1998, one of which 'advocated and practiced the use of violence'. Retired from MPS on health grounds & later diagnosed with a mental health condition in part derived from his deployment. Said to have played a part in activities connected to the spying on the Lawrences. Mentioned in both Ellison Review and Herne II. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN125]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a single left wing group in 1980s. Real and cover names to be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN126]]<br />
| ''Paul Gray''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the Socialist Workers Party and Anti-Nazi League 1977-1982.<ref name="email.ucpi.25June2019">Email to core participants, '20190625-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN126_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 25 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN135 / [[Mike Ferguson]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated anti-apartheid campaigners including the 'Stop the Seventy' campaign - 1969-1970. Real name given in ''True Spies'' series.<br />
<br />
20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications applications were to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Mar2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: closed hearing to take place.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> July 2018: 'further investigation necessary befor application to restrict the cover name can be determined. The real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
29 Oct 2019: real name released as already in public domain (see ''True Spies''), but cover name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling16.29Oct2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191029-sds_anonymity-ruling_16_san.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Ruling 16'], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 29 October 2019.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN155]]<br />
| ''Phil Cooper''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1979/80 to 1983. Ruled that real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN200<br />
| ''Roger Harris''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party 1974-1977. <br />
<br />
Minded-To (March 2018): real name cannot be published; cover name to be published.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018 (accessed 28 March 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
Details released 17 July 2018).<ref name="email.ucpi.14July2018">Email to core participants, '20180717_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN25_HN200_direction_HN104', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 July2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
Currently in 70s. Deployment apparently unremarkable. Mitting: no reason to publish real name; and HN200 and wife are concerned about media intrustion.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/><br />
<br />
20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN218 / N218<br />
| ''Barry Morris''<br />
| SDS undercover and probably manager<br />
| Deployed 1968 into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018"/><br />
<br />
Cover name and real name to be published as no restriction order application made.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> Cover name released May 2018.<ref name="email.ucpi.1May2018">Email to core participants, '20180501_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN3_HN19_HN20_HN60_HN218_HN353', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 1 May 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
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Herne II, para. 25.1.2 states: The MPS Director of Intelligence in 1999 has been interviewed by Operation Herne and stated, 'I have been asked if I recall 'any Special Branch plans to mislead the Macpherson Inquiry' into the death of Stephen Lawrence. For part of this time, I was head of Special Branch operations and have no recollection of any such plans.’ Peter Francis has alleged that N218 came out to see him in respect of withholding information from the Macpherson Inquiry. In interview, N218 stated that this meeting or request never happened.<ref name="herne.2"/> There is a strong probablility that N218 is former Special Branch commander [[Barry Moss]].<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN241<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into one group in 1970s. Ruling (20 Feb 2018): real and cover names to be restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling.20Feb18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-ruling-SDS-anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 4 March 2018).</ref> No allegation of misconduct. Arrested but not charged on one occasion.<ref name="hn241.ra">Brian Lockie, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20171221-HN241-Risk-Assessment.pdf HN241 Risk assessment (open version)], ''Metropolitan Police'', 3 October 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN294]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed 1968-1969 into a group that no longer exists, and reported on others. Held a managerial position in the SDS 1969-1974. Deceased. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN296<br />
| ''Geoff Wallace''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into Socialist Workers Party from 1975 to 1978;<ref name="email.ucpi.4June2019">Email to core participants, '20190604-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN296_cover_name', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 4 June 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> no known allegation of misconduct against him. Currently in late 60s.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/200180115-Minded-To-Note-3-November-tranche-applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: 'Minded to' note 3], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 January 2018 (accessed 15 January 2018).</ref><br />
<br />
He does not live in the UK but is willing to cooperate with the Inquiry.<ref name="mindedto3.mitting.15Jan18"/> Real name restricted<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN297<br />
| ''[[Rick Gibson (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated Troop Out Movement 1974-1976 and tasked to infiltrate Big Flame - discovered and confronted by them in 1976. Multiple sexual relationships. Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN298<br />
| ''[[Michael Scott (alias)]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971 to 1976 into the Young Liberals, Anti-Apartheid Movement and Workers Revolutionary Party. Convicted in 1972 under his cover name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. His cover surname has not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323 / Helen Crampton<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
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Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 to 1972 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in ''True Spies'' under the pseudonym 'Dan'.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover &amp; manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969-1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & manager<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1971-1976 against International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League & Troops Out Movement.<ref name="tw.ucpi.18Dec2018">[https://twitter.com/ucpinquiry/status/1074972312389197826 Cover name released: "David Hughes". Groups: International Marxist Group; Anti-Internment League; Troops Out Movement. Years active: 1971 - 1976.], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (Twitter.com)'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.u/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into Anti-Internment League and Northern Minorities Defence Force.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] in 1971.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Womens Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Minded to restrict real name.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| ''[[Vince Miller (alias)|Vince Miller]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. <br />
|}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=HG_Lawrenson&diff=257456HG Lawrenson2021-03-03T15:56:54Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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'''HG "Bert" Lawrenson''' was a senior officer in the [[Metropolitan Police Special Branch]] in the 1960s, who moved to the Economic League London Regional Office as soon as he retired in early 1969. As the head of 'C' squad he oversaw the gathering of intelligence on the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968, and he was closely invovled in the setting up of CI Conrad Dixon's Special Demonstration Squad (or Special Operation Squad as it was called in the early days).<br />
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==Special Branch==<br />
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The first known appearance of Lawrenson as a Detective Inspector - most probably from Special Branch - is in 1963. Activist group 'Spies for Peace' had released top secret details of the governments plans for 'Regional Seats of Government', which was picked up by the wider peace movement. As part of an effort to prevent further publicising of the details, the state issued various warnings. These included a visit from Detective Inspectors Wood and Lawrenson, to ''Peace News'' due to that newspaper's plans to publish the details. Despite this, ''Peace News'' put the story on it's front page.'<ref>[https://libcom.org/files/ResistanceShallGrow.pdf Resistance Shall Grow: the story of the 'Spies for Peace' and why they are important for your future], jointly published by a number of groups, 1963, p.11 (accessed via Libcom.org).</ref><br />
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===C Squad===<br />
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Lawrenson was a Superintendent in charge of 'C' Squad later in the 1960s, according to a former colleague - having succeeded Harold Suttling in that role.<ref name = 8/18>John Streeter, [https://818association.typepad.com/files/autumn-14-newsletter.pdf Ian Adams who died on Wednesday 14th May 2014.], ''8/18 Association Newsletter'', Edition 51, Autumn 2014. John Streeter wrote: ”I enjoyed the somewhat dubious pleasure of working with Ian Adams way back in the late 60s and early 70s when we both served together on ‘C’ Squad then under the command of Supt ‘Bert’ Lawrenson ably assisted by CIs ‘Ron’ Floor, Norman Murray and ‘Bill’ Tucker.</ref> Dates are as yet uncertain, but he certainly held the rank of Superintendent by late 1967 and subsequent years.<ref name="pcalmanacs">Police and Constabulary Almanacs, miscellaneous years, R Hazell & co.</ref> Lawrenson was deputy to the then head of Special Branch, Chief Superintendent [[Arthur Cunningham]].<br />
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In this role, he would have overseen Special Branch's intelligence gathering on political groups - its remit variously including Communists and Subversives/ Public Order / Domestic Extremism.<ref>Special Branch Introduction and summary of responsibilities, ''Metropolitan Police Special Branch'', August 2004.</ref><ref>Oliver Sanders QC, Robert McAllister & Claire Palmer, [https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20426753-20201028-opening_statement-dl_clients Amended written opening statement on behalf of the Designated Lawyer officer core participant group for hearing: 3-4 November 2020], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 28 October 2020 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6880178-History-of-Uk-Special-Branch.html Special Branch Introduction and summary of responsibilities], ''Metropolitan Police Special Branch'', August 2004 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).</ref> Lawrenson's former colleague, John Streeter in an obituary in 2014 puts it this way: "In those distant days one of the functions of ‘C’ Squad was to ‘monitor’ the subversive activities of extreme left wing organisations such as the CP, WRP, and many others doubtless still remembered with ‘affection’ by many of a certain vintage."<ref name = 8/18/><br />
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=== Special Demonstration Squad ===<br />
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1968 saw a mass movement against the Vietnam War, including large scale demonstrations in London. Special Branch played a key role in the police response to this,<ref>Dónal O’Driscoll, [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/1968-protest-and-special-branch-0/ 1968 – Protest and Special Branch], ''Undercover Research Group'', 14 April 2018 (accessed 2 April 2020, via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).</ref> including setting up undercover unit, the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] in September that year, targeting the large scale 27 October mobilisation.<ref name="undercover.book">Paul Lewis & Rob Evans, [https://guardianbookshop.com/undercover-9781783350346.html Undercover: The true story of Britain's secret poilce], ''Guardian Faber'', 2013.</ref><br />
[[File:UCPI0000030046.jpg|thumb|200px|The 29 August 1968 ''Note to File'' from F.4 Division, MI5]]<br />
In doing so, the SDS had a close working relationship with the secret service from the very beginning, as was revealed in files released by the Inquiry in November 2020.<br />
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====Liaising with MI5====<br />
Lawrenson was personally involved in cementing this relationship. At a first meeting between Special Branch and MI5 was held on 1 August, the day after the creation of the Squad, the intention to cooperate was recorded. Present were Director F, F.1 and F.4 of MI5 and Commander [[Ferguson Smith]], head of Special Branch), Chief Superintendent [[Arthur Cunningham]] and Chief Inspector [[Conrad Dixon]]. On 2nd August, Dixon and his deputy Inspector [[Philip Saunders]] visited the Security Service to tie up liaison arranchments, the SDS was to have a liaison at MI5, to see what would happen with the intelligence sent there.<ref>F.4, [https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20428436-ucpi0000030045 Note for File regarding a meeting at Scotland Yard held to discuss arrangements for the October 27th Grosvenor Square demonstration], Security Service, 2 August 1968, accessed via UCPI.org.uk UCPI0000030045)</ref> <br />
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Next, it was Superintendent Lawrenson who invited MI5 to Special Branch to iron out the final details of the cooperation.<ref>F.4, [https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20428437-ucpi0000030046 Note for file regarding a meeting where mention is made of a new 'special squad' set up in Special Branch], Security Service, 29 August 1968, accessed via UCPI.org.uk UCPI0000030046)</ref> F.4 reports on the meeting with 'Senior Superintendent Cunningham and Chief Inspector Dickson [sic]', writing 'We reviewed our joint coverage of London University and various polytechnics'. It goes on to say:<br />
::Briefly, Special Branch have set up a special squad under Dickson, bearded and unwashed males and scruffy female, who are participating in demonstrations where they make contact with students and then hope to turn them and use them as short term informers. They are meeting with some success.<br />
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====Signing SDS reports====<br />
Lawrenson and the founder of the SDS DCI Conrad Dixon share a history of working at 'C' Squad. As such Lawrenson reported on groups active in the Anti-Vietnam war movement, even before the SDS was set up. In March 1968, after the first large demonstration against the war in Vietnam in London on the 17th, Lawrenson authored a report on a smaller protest a week later by Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref> HG Lawrenson, [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2487410-1968-sb-report-on-youth-cnd.html Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament], ''Metropolitan Police Special Branch'', 24 March 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).</ref><br />
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In the run up to the next large anti-Vietnam demonstration on 27 October 1968, Lawrenson's name appears on a number of reports on the activities of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign submitted by DI Conrad Dixon; signing them as Acting Detective Chief Superintendent in place of (or on behalf of) the regular co-signer, DCS Arthur Cunningham. For example, in early October 1968, he signs a report of Dixon, on behalf of his Chief Superintendent, regarding the decision by CND not to support the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign's demonstration of 27 October and about the internal mood within the VSC.<ref>Conrad Dixon, [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2494421-9th-oct-1968-reports-cnd-not-backing-27th-oct-demo.html "VSC Autumn Offensive"], ''Metropolitan Police Special Branch'', 9 October 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).</ref><ref>See also: Conrad Dixon, [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2494422-3rd-oct-1968-weekly-report-on-preparations-for.html Report into the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign's "Autumn Offensive"], ''Metropolitan Police Special Branch'', 3 October 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).and Conrad Dixon, [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2494419-22nd-oct-1968-assessment-on-upcoming-demo-of.html Report into the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign's "Autumn Offensive"], ''Metropolitan Police Special Branch'', 22 October 1968 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).</ref><br />
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Six months later, in March 1969, Lawrenson appears in a report on the Committee for Solidarity with Vietnam demonstration on 9 March 1969 signing off for the Chief Superintendent.<ref>Detective Inspector (illegible), [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2494413-9th-march-1969-sb-report-on-demo.html March 9th Committee for Solidarity with Vietnam], ''Metropolitan Police Special Branch'', 9 March 1969 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).</ref> While a week later, now as Acting Chief Superintendent, he again signs a report on an upcoming Vietnam Solidarity Campaign demonstration.<ref>HG Lawrenson, [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2494411-16th-march-1969-report.html V.S.C. Demonstration], ''Metropolitan Police Special Branch'', 16 March 1969 (accessed via SpecialBranchFiles.uk).</ref><br />
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==Economic League==<br />
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[[File:HN336 statement on Lawrenson.png|thumb|200px|Section from statement of Special Demonstration Squad undercover HN336 noting Supt. Bert Lawrenson joining the Economic League.]]<br />
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At the hearings of the Undercover Policing Inquiry in November 2020, one of the former SDS undercover officers mentioned Lawrenson in his witness statement.<ref name = EppsWitness>[https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20426723-20190509-first-witness-statement-of-hn336 First Witness Statement of HN336 ('Dick Epps')], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', p25 and 36, 9 May 2019 (published via upci.org.uk, 16 November 2020).</ref> Known as HN336 because his real name is restricted in the Inquiry, he used the cover name [https://powerbase.info/index.php/Dick_Epps_(alias) Dick Epps] while he was undercover between 1969 to 1972. (He also appeared as 'Dan' in ''True Spies'', the BBC series first revealing the existence of the SDS in 2002). When asked what he knew of the Special Branch and the [[Economic League]], he said:<br />
::Shortly after I joined the branch, the then Chief Superintendent of C Squad, I think his name was Lawrenson, retired and he joined the staff of the Economic League, and I was aware of that.<br />
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Reference to 'the branch' is likely a mistake for the Special Demonstration Squad, which HN336 joined in early 1969, whereas he had joined Special Branch as a police constable in 1964.<ref name = EppsWitness/><br />
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A search of the Police and Constabulary Almanacs shows that Bert Lawrenson had left around this date, as he is last recorded as a Metropolitan police officer in 1969, as an Acting Chief Superintendent.<ref name="pcalmanacs">Police and Constabulary Almanacs, miscellaneous years, R Hazell & co.</ref> (The Special Branch reports from March 1969 quoted above must have been amongst the last he signed.)<br />
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Mike Hughes, long-term researcher of the Economic League and the author of ''[[Spies at Work]]'' assumes that Lawrenson was appointed head of the League's London Regional HQ's research department after he left the police, and stayed in that role until 1980, when the London office was moved to Croydon and the League appointed someone called Derek Knight-Jewell, someone without a security background.<ref>Mike Hughes, [https://www.spiesatwork.org.uk/blog The Under Cover Police Inquiry (UCPI) Calls Out the Senior Special Branch Officer Running the Economic League’s Secret Registry], ''Spies at Work'' blog post 8 Dec 2020 (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref> <br />
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===Links to Blacklisting===<br />
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Given his role in 'C' Squad, Lawrenson's move to blacklisting organisation the [[Economic League]] is concerning. He would have seen numerous intelligence reports on people who were being systematically targeted for their political beliefs and union work. His understanding of Special Branch officers and structures would also provide knowledge and contacts useful for the Economic League.<br />
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Operation Herne, the Metropolitan Police’s wider investigation into the undercover policing scandal, which was supposed to be looking into the links between Special Branch and the Economic League, does not mention the fact that Bert Lawrenson worked for the Economic League right after his retirement. The report on their 'Operation Reuben', however, does mention that there's a dedicated liaison officer from the Special Branch Industrial Unit (also known as the Industrial Intelligence Section) with the Economic League.<ref>Mick Creedon, [https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5759131/Op-Reuben-MPS-Partly-Redacted.pdf Operation Reuben], Operation Herne, Metropolitan Police, 14 February 2016 (accessed March 2021)</ref> <br />
* For more detail see: Dónal O’Driscoll, [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/operation-reuben-unpicked-pt1/ Operation Reuben Unpicked: police involvement in blacklisting], SpecialBranchFiles.uk June 2019.<br />
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As Dave Smith, core participant in the Inquiry and co-author of Blacklisted<ref>Dave Smith & Phil Chamberlain, ''Blacklisted: The secret war between big business and union activists'', New Internationalist, 2nd Edition, September 2016.</ref> pointed out in his openening statement at the hearings in November 2020:<ref name = Dave/><br />
:: Basically, you've got people in the Industrial Unit, Bert Lawrenson used to be their boss, he trained them. He then goes off and works for the Economic League. And you've got someone in the Industrial Unit who's the official liaison officer. <br />
::There is a relationship there between the Economic League and Special Branch Industrial Unit. That needs to be investigated by this Inquiry.<br />
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"Dick Epps", the undercover officer who first mentioned Lawrenson, went on to work at the Industrial Unit covering the engineering industry after his deployment with the SDS ended.<ref name = EppsWitness/><ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], Undercover Policing Inquiry, 14 November 2017.</ref><br />
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==Personal details==<br />
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He is probably the Herbert Guy Lawrenson, born 12 July 1915, Warrington; died 10 Sept 1995, Ruislip. If he is correctly identified as the person born 1915, he would have been at police retirement age around 1970.<ref>As Hughes stated in his blog, Lawrenson isn’t a particularly common name in the UK. In 2000 for example there were just 377 people with that name. (By contrast there were almost a quarter of million Hugheses, nearly 2.5 million Smiths, and mysteriously no one called Mitting).</ref><br />
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== In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
Looking at the timeline of his career and his personal details, it is highly likely that Lawrenson has passed away. No request for anonymity has been made by his relatives, he has no HN number and his name had not yet been mentioned in the proceedings in the Undercover Policing Inquiry. When HN331 mentioned Lawrenson in his witness statement, his name was not redacted; nor was it from the MI5 report on the meeting with Special Branch and the SDS, quoted here.<br />
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As a superior in 'C' squad, who arranged contacts with MI5 for the SDS at its invention, signed off SDS reports, who had been responsible for the Industrial Unit, before moving on the Economic League, one would expect the Inquiry to look at Lawrenson's role. Hopefully he will be on the agenda once the Inquiry gets to scrutinise the managers of the SDS for this period, in late 2021. <br />
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Curiously enough, the files disclosed by the Inquiry in November 2020 did not include any Special Branch reports that were written or signed by him (- or they must have been redacted, which would not make sense as his name was available in other documents). <br />
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The Special Branch files quoted in this profile were released to journalist Solomon Hughes, after a Freedom of Information request in 2008; he published two articles about them in the ''Morning Star''.<ref>Solomon Hughes, [http://peoplesplaindealer.blogspot.nl/2014/04/police-so-frightened-of-68-anti-vietnam.html Police so frightened of 68 Anti Vietnam War protests that they mobilised a ‘bomb squad’] ''Morning Star'', 6 June 2008, and Solomon Hughes, [http://peoplesplaindealer.blogspot.nl/2014_04_01_archive.htmlHarold Wilson backed weird smears, leaned on Press over 1968 protests], ''Morning Star'', 25 July 2008, (both re-published on Hughes’ blog People’s Plain Dealer, accessed March 2020)</ref> Paul Mason saw a similar set of files and wrote about his ''Newsnight'' report at the BBC website, detailing for instance how the pop group The Doors were mistaken for political extremists.<ref>Paul Mason, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2008/05/1968_the_doors_mistaken_for_political_extremists.html 1968: ‘The Doors’ mistaken for political extremists], ''Newsnight'', BBC website, 28 May 2008, (accessed March 2021).</ref><br />
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Hughes kindly shared his files with [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/ the Special Branch Files project] where they have been [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/vietnam-war-all-files/ available for the past five years]. Most of these Special Branch files have not been redacted at all and include both names of police officers involved as the activists they spied on, as opposed to the files released by the Inquiry.[[File:Morning Star - Lawrenson spycop frontpage - 18 Nov 202.jpg|thumb|200px|Lawrenson on frontpage of the Morning Star, 18 November 2020.]]<br />
The disclosure of the Inquiry does not include any of the files previously released under the Freedom of Information act, or available at the National Archives.<br />
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==Press==<br />
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The importance of the mention of Lawrenson in the statement of HN336 / 'Dick Epps', was immediately recognised by campaigners and those spied on. Core Participant Dave Smith of the Blacklist Support Group discussed it in his Opening Statement.<ref name = Dave>Dave Smith, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201105-Opening_Statement-Blacklist_Support_Group.pdf Opening Statement], ''Blacklist Support Group''', 17 November 2020 as updated 17 November 2020 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref> <br />
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This in turn lead to stories in for instance ''the Guardian''<ref>Rob Evans, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/17/police-chief-who-spied-on-activists-went-on-to-work-for-union-blacklist-inquiry-told Police chief who spied on activists went on to work for union blacklist, inquiry told], ''The Guardian'', 17 November 2020 (accessed March 2021).</ref> and made the front cover of the print edition of the Morning Star of 18 November 2020.<ref>[https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/former-cop-who-spied-on-trade-unionists-left-the-force-to-join-blacklist-firm Former cop who spied on trade unionists left the force to join blacklist firm], ''Morning Star'', 18 November 2020 (accessed March 2021).</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=National_Special_Branch_Information_System&diff=257386National Special Branch Information System2021-01-10T10:49:08Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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The '''National Special Branch Intelligence System''' or '''NSBIS''' was database software used by Special Branch and Counter Terrorism units by British police forces. It is also referred to as the '''National Special Branch Information System'''. It was introduced around 2003, but has since been since superseded by the [[National Common Intelligence Application]].<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/><br />
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It is formally defined as:<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture">[https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/metropolitan-police-service-building-the-picture.pdf Building the Picture: An inspection of police information management], ''HM Inspectorate of Constabulary'', July 2015 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref><br />
:: Information management system used to host information and intelligence gathered in the course of counter-terrorism investigations.<br />
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Rather than being a single database, it was a software which ran on local police services to serve individual units, known as 'instances'. However, NSBIS appears to have incorporated connectivity between the different instances, particularly with one known as NSBIS-N (see below).<br />
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According to a 2020 IOPC report:<ref name="gilbert.2019">Darren Walton, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6812338-Op-Gilbert-Final-Report-for-Publication.htmll Operation Gilbert: Investigation into allegations that members of the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU) illegally accessed the email accounts of environmental campaigners and sympathetic journalists], ''Independent Office for Police Conduct'', 8 November 2019 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> <br />
:: 316.. NSBIS is designed to computerise the functions carried out by Special Branch Groups, Nationality (OVRO), Ports and Special Branch offices. The data is held in a single database with access rights limited only to specified groups of officers for specific reasons. One of these groups of officers was the [National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU)]. Intelligence related to domestic extremist activity, sourced from police forces, counter-terrorism units, industry and open sources, was shared through, organized and recorded on NSBIS.<br />
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NSBIS was distinct from other systems such as the Police National Computer and the Police National Database and could not be accessed through them.<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/> This was so it could store classified and other protectively marked material, marked up to level of 'Secret', which other Metropolitan Police databases were unsuitable for storing.<ref>Either to Government Protective Marking Scheme or its successor protocol, the Government Security Classification Policy.</ref><ref>Mick Creedon, [https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/foi-media/metropolitan-police/priorities_and_how_we_are_doing/corporate/operation-herne---report-3---special-demonstration-squad-reporting-mentions-of-sensitive-campaigns Report 3 - Special Demonstration Squad Reporting: Mentions of Sensitive Campaigns], ''Operation Herne / Metropolitan Police'', July 2014 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> <br />
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Individual Special Branch / Counter Terrorism units were able to customise aspects of it. This lead to 'inconsistent and varied information-recording practices', a weakness which lead to the development of its successor, the [[National Common Intelligence Application]].<ref name="hmic.2015.building.thepicture"/><br />
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Once the process of transferring to the NCIA has been done, the NSBIS databases will be marked as 'Legacy' databases. Due to their relevance to the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]], they will not be disposed of in line with normal police Review, Retention and Deletion policy. Any access / ownership will still go through the host organisations rather than the Inquiry.<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/><br />
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In the 2000s, NSBIS came under the aegis of the [[National Coordinator for Special Branch]],<ref name="NSBIS.RRD.2008">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-XB-AP-170405-1.pdf NSBIS Review, Retention and Disposal Guide], ''Serco Project Engineering'', 2008 (via ucpi.org.uk as exhibit to the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-WS-1.pdf witness statement of Alistair Pocock]).</ref>, a role managed by the [[Association_of_Chief_Police_Officers_(Terrorism_and_Allied_Matters) | ACPO Terrorism & Allied Matters Committee]].<br />
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==Origins==<br />
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NSBIS was originally a set of 'national standards for the management of intelligence by the individual special branches'.<ref>CC. Paddy Tomkins, [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldselect/ldeucom/53/4102705.htm Examination of Witnesses (Questions 40-59) Assistant Commissioner David Veness and Chief Constable Paddy Tomkins], ''Committee on European Union (House of Lords)'', 27 October 2004 (accessed 7 June 2020 via Parliament.uk).</ref> In it's 2003 thematic inspection of Special Branch units, ''A Need to Know'', the Inspectorate of Constabulary noted that Special Branch lacked adequate IT and that 'overall, a Special Branch national IT network would significantly enhance effectiveness, stating:<ref>David Blakey, [https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/media/a-need-to-know-20030101.pdf A Need To Know: HMIC Thematic Inspection of Special Branch and Ports Policing], ''HM Inspectorate of Constabulary'', January 2003 (accessed 7 June 2020).</ref><br />
:: HMIC identified a high priority requirement for a national Special Branch IT programme with commensurate IT development leading to the establishment of a national Special Branch IT network with sufficient terminals in all SB offices and major ports. HMIC is aware and fully supportive of current development work on the second generation National Special Branch Intelligence System (NSBIS2) but also concerned that running costs are likely to inhibit the establishment of a national Special Branch network. ACPO (TAM) has, through the National Special Branch Technology Unit (NSBTU), been developing a National Special Branch Information Management Strategy. [...] <br />
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Having found: <br />
:: However the inadequacy of current arrangements cannot be overstated and the development of a national IT strategy for Special Branch and Ports Policing is long overdue. ACPO (TAM) is actively developing IT systems to provide this national network and HMIC encourages all forces to work closely with them in aligning their long term procurement program.<br />
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HMIC went on to recommend in the same report:<br />
:: ... as a matter of priority the Home Office enables identified national Special Branch IT requirements to be implemented and most importantly funded, through a clear, robust, time-tabled strategy.<br />
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From this it appears that NSBIS is an information management strategy that turned into a computer system incorporating a database under the aegis of the Association of Chief Police Officer's [[https://powerbase.info/index.php/Association_of_Chief_Police_Officers_(Terrorism_and_Allied_Matters) |Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee]]. <br />
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An earlier incarnation of the system was developed and deployed by private contractor [[Serco]] in the 1990s.<ref>Andrew Hubbard, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewrhubbard/?originalSubdomain=uk Profile], ''LinkedIn.com'', undated (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref><ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016">Jeffery Lamprey, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-WS-1.pdf Witness statement], ''National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters / Metropolitan Police'', 19 December 2016 (accessed 2 June 2020 via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
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NSBIS 2 was developed by a related company, Serco Project Engineering, with work starting as early 1999, and mentions of contracts running support services from 2002 to 2012<ref>[https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/112454/response/280437/attach/4/contracts%20to%20be%20published%20externally%20final.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1 Contacts to be published externally], ''Sussex Police'', 16 March 2012 (accessed 1 June 2020 via WhatDoTheyKnow.com).</ref><ref name="mehar.chauhan">Mehar Chauhan, [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehar-chauhan-18142b9a/?originalSubdomain=uk Profile], ''LinkedIn.com'', undated (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref><ref name="london.gov.16"/> However, it appears that of September 2004 work in relation to it was ongoing.<ref>CC William Rae, [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldselect/ldeucom/53/4102702.htm Memorandum by Association of Chief Police Officers, Scotland (ACPOS)], ''Select Committee on European Union (House of Lords)'', 9 September 2004 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref><br />
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'''Screenshots from NSBIS Review Retention and Deletion manual'''<ref name="NSBIS.RRD.2008"/><br />
<gallery><br />
File: NSBIS graphic1.png|Review States<br />
File: NSBIS graphic2.png|Adding Nominals<br />
File: NSBIS graphic3.png|Outstanding Reports Review Email<br />
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==Particular instances==<br />
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A number of individual forces have confirmed by 2011 they were using NSBIS software including Metropolitan Police,<ref name="london.gov.16"/> Hampshire<ref>[http://www.statewatch.org/observatories_files/drones/uk/police-hampshire-2012-foi-response-art-23-note.pdf Disclosure Log - Jan 2012 - March 2012], ''Hampshire Police'', 1 November 2012 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> and Avon & Somerset.<ref>[https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/it_applications_used FOIA request response: IT applications used], ''Avon & Somerset Police'', 18 April 2012 (accessed 1 June 2012).</ref><br />
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National police units which also used it were the National Ports Analysis Centre, National Ports Unit,<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/> National Ballistic Intelligence Service (NABIS) and the Penalty Notice Processing unit (PentiP<ref>Tom McNulty, [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2007-01-24c.114847.h PentiP System: Home Department written questions], 24 January 2007 (accessed 7 June 2020 via TheyWorkForYou.com).</ref>).<ref name="stainer">Ian Stainer, Enhancing Intelligence-Led Policing: Law Enforcement' Big Data Revolution', in [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DeF6DAAAQBA Big Dat Challenges: Society, Security, Innovation and Ethics], ed. Anno Bunnik, Anthony Cawley, Michael Mulqueen & Andrej Zwitter, Springer, 2016.</ref><br />
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It appears that UK Border Agency used it as well.<ref name="mehar.chauhan"/><br />
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===NSBIS-N===<br />
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There is a national installation referred to as NSBIS-N or 'National NSBIS', which<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/><ref name="london.gov.16">Mention of an NSBIS-N related contract occurs for the financial year 2010-2011. See [https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/system/files/attachments/Appendix%20AC_15.pdf Appendix AC_15.pdf], ''London.gov.uk'', 3 March 2016. However, a 2016 Metropolitan police document notes that the NBSIS-N migration had not started at that point. See [https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/system/files/attachments/Appendix%20T_15.pdf All projects on the DP Portfolio register were reviewed against the agreed set of critera - Appendix T 15], ''Metropolitan Police'', document created 23 March 2016.</ref> <br />
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NSBIS-N only became operational in April 2008, prior to which there was no national installation.<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/> Once it became live, however:<ref name="bjj.2019">Edward Parsons, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6812417-Baroness-Jenny-Jones-Final-Report-for-Publication.html Baroness Jenny Jones: Investigation into the deletion of material relating to Baroness Jenny Jones and/or the Undercover Policing Inquiry], ''Independent Office for Police Conduct'', 14 February 2019 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> <br />
:: When forces input information onto their local NSBIS, this was automatically uploaded to NSBIS-N. While there was an option to prevent this from happening, basic details associated with an entry such as names, addresses and telephone numbers would still be uploaded to NSBIS-N.<br />
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This was alternatively noted as:<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/><br />
:: ... each force or unit installation of NSBIS will include an individual store of data which is not replicated on any other installation of NSBIS save to the extent that<br />
:::1) Limited information providing a trace of each entry will appear on the NSBIS, provided the default option to do so has not been changed by a local force or unit; and<br />
:::2) Individual forces or units chose to transfer information to another force or unit via secure email transfer, and that second force or unit takes the decision to upload it to their installation upon receipt.<br />
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NSBIS-N is under the control of the [[National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters]].<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/> NCTPHQ is a successor unit to the [[Association_of_Chief_Police_Officers_(Terrorism_and_Allied_Matters) |ACPO Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee]], playing a national lead on counter terrorism and domestic extremism policing. SOURCES. <br />
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Curiously, the Metropolitan Police had search access to NSBIS-N, while neither NCTPOC or the [[Police Service of Northern Ireland]] had any access.<ref name="lamprey.19-12-2016"/><br />
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It appears that some local Special Branch units migrated to the national NSBIS, for example, Gloucestershire and Devon & Cornwall forces, a 2012 document stating:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120830134348/http://www.aspola.org.uk/cache/PDF/Document6643_703264.pdf Report of the Chief Constable - Strategic Alliances], ''Avon and Somerset Police Authority'', 28 March 2012 (accessed via Archive.org).</ref><br />
:: SB in both Glos and D&C will migrate to the national SB intelligence system (NSBIS) during March 2013, ensuring all forces in the region utilise the same IT system and lay the foundation for regional secure IT connectivity.<br />
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[[Image:NCSB units structure(v1).png|500px|frame]]<br />
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===NCTPOC / CTPNOC NSBIS===<br />
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This instance of NSBIS is used by the National Counter Terrorism Policing Operations Command (NCTPOC) - now named the [[Counter Terrorism Policing National Operational Command]] (CTPNOC).<ref name="pocock.6-4-17"/> Though CTPNOC is hosted by the Metropolitan Police, the CTPNOC NBSIS is located on different servers and operates independently of SO15 NBSIS.<ref name="pocock.6-4-17"/><br />
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According to a statement of Michael Killeen, head of intelligence for CTPNOC:<ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><br />
:: 102. ... NCTPOC uses guidance provided by the College of Policing in the national standards of Intelligence Management and MoPI to guide whether to input information, and in what format, onto NSBIS.<br />
:: 103. NCTPOC staff members are expected to work in accordance with the principles of Intelligence Management as a whole but paragraph 2.3 of the Intelligence report section of Intelligence Management states:<br />
::: OFFICIAL Information content ... Information should be for a policing purpose. It should be clear, concise and without abbreviations. The information must be of value and understood without the need to refer to other information sources. The body of the report should give no indication of the nature of the source, whether human or technical, or the proximity of the source to the information.<br />
:: 104. Information recorded on NSBIS is expected to comply with these requirements.<br />
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===SO15 NSBIS===<br />
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In late 2011, [[Counter Terorism Command]] (SO15), within the Metropolitan Police, adopted its own version of NSBIS, held within the Intelligence Management and Operation Support unit. There it interfaces with legacy systems used for the digitising of the indices for the old [[Special Branch Registry]].<ref name="pocock.6-4-17">Det. Insp. Alistair Pocock, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-WS-1.pdf Witness statement], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 6 April 2017, incorporating statement of 3 January 2017 (accessed via Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
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A 2015 SO15 briefing wrote:<ref name="d754">Appendix A to SO15 report dated 11th June 2015 concerning Information Risks in SO15. Appears in [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/D754-BRIEFING-RE-MANAGEMENT-OF-INFORMATION-WITHIN-SO15.pdf Exhibit D754: Debriefing re Management of Information within SO15], ''Metropolitan Police'', June 2015, (accessed via ucpi.org.uk, appended to a [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/individuals_name/neil-hutchinson/ witness statement of Det. Supt. Neil Huchison]).</ref><br />
:: This system contains all intelligence reports received into the London Intelligence Unit since December 2011 when NSBIS was adopted. When the system is interrogated to establish how many reports it contains the database is so large the document search fails - 4,000 reports were added in July 2014 and we've had the system since December 2011. In addition all the data from the preceding [[Special Branch Registry |BRS]] is also stored in the database. Analysis of audit figures gives a best guess suggesting there are approximately 800,000 identifiable records.<br />
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===Domestic Extremism===<br />
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[[Image:NSBIS NPOIU.png|200px|thumb|NPOIU Version history (via statement of Jeffrey Lamprey)]]<br />
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The history of the [[National Domestic Extremism Unit|national domestic extremism units]] is convoluted one and is covered in a separate article. An early unit, the [[National Public Order Intelligence Unit]], created an instance of NSBIS in August 2006.SOURCE: HMIC 2012 & 2013<ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-XB-JL-161103-1.pdf NCTPOC (NDEDIU) NSBIS versions used history], ''NCTPOC / Metropolitan Police'', undated (accessed via ucpi.org.uk where it is an exhibit to the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-WS-1.pdfwitness statement of Jeffrey Lamprey]).</ref> This became what is generally referred to as the [[National Domestic Extremism Database]].<br />
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When the national domestic extremism units passed to control of the Metropolitan Police in 2011, the database was continued, the controlling unit renamed National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU) and subsequent renamings / re-structurings.<ref name="killeen.3-1-17">Det. Supt. Michael Killeen, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Killeen-WS-1.pdf Witness statement], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 1 January 2017 - incorporating statements of 22 June 2016 and extension of 20 September 2016 (accessed via Undercover Policing Inquiry - ucpi.org.tuk).</ref> <ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6596674-National-Police-Units-Which-Provide-Intelligence.html A review of progress made against the recommendations in HMIC’s 2012 report on the national police units which provide intelligence on criminality associated with protest], ''HM Inspectorate of Constabulary'', June 2013 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref>NDEDIU has since been submerged into CTPNOC,<ref name="pocock.6-4-17"/> though the function has remained.<br />
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In May 2014, NDEDIU (as it still was) initiated a new instance of NSBIS. This was because the list of records marked for review in light of HM Inspectorate of Constabulary investigations critical of the large volume of material being retained,<ref name="bjj.2019"/> had become so large it caused the system to lock and ceased functioning properly. As a result a new database was started, and the 2006 database began being referred to as the Legacy database. <ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><ref name="bjj.2019"/><br />
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For the 2014 database, the NDEDIU manually migrated over records over from the 2006 Legacy database. These records were chosen in light of relevant Metropolitan Police policies on information Review, Retention and Deletion (RRD). The Legacy database can still be accessed for certain purposes, including the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]].<ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><br />
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The new NSBIS database 'contains material relating to domestic extremism and strategic public order'. This includes intelligence reports and nominals.<ref name="killeen.3-1-17"/><br />
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According to one report:<ref name="bjj.2019"/><br />
:: On local installations of NSBIS, there was an option for forces to pass information uploaded directly to NDEDIU's installation of NSBIS, if they considered it relevant to the NDEDIU's role of assessing intelligence relating to domestic extremism.<br />
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==='Fairway'===<br />
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Various references to a national Fairway database can be found.<br />
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In 2008, Fairway was a [[Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre]] project which:<ref>Ch. Insp. Geoff Bishop, [http://www.statewatch.org/news/2009/jan/uk-met-stop-and-search-s44-terr-act-2000.pdf Section 44 Terrorism Act 2000: Standard Operation Procedures], ''Metropolitan Police'', 7 February 2008 (archived by Statewatch.org).</ref><br />
:: produces a variety of reports tailored to meet the needs of individual customer departments. These are sanitised intelligence reports that are disseminated to a wide range of Police customers via Special Branches. They are predominantly intended for use as background briefing documents among officers and staff engaged in operations duties, in order to heighten awareness of the current international terrorist threat.1012<br />
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Fairway has been referred to as 'the umbrella title given to various work streams which feed into an intelligence database designed to counter terrorism in its earliest stages of planning', and:<ref>[https://www.logisticshandling.com/articles/2010/06/28/1012-logistics-security-scrutinised-at-dhl-reliance Logistics security scrutinised at DHL & Reliance conference], ''Logistics Handling (trade newsletter)'', 28 June 2010 (accessed 1 June 2020).</ref> <br />
:: The programme asks police officers and security personnel to be aware of the constant threat of terrorism and feed any gathered intelligence, including any concerns regarding individuals behaviour, to their local Special Branch for inclusion on to the National Fairway database.<br />
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The Fairway database was also used to record details of journalists and photographers, linking it to the [[National Domestic Extremism Database]].<ref>Jules Mattsson, [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/medianews/article4263693.ece Journalists named on secret files, police admit], ''The Times'', 11 November 2014 (accessed 2 June 2020).</ref> Given the national remit of Fairway, it would appear the database it fed into is likely the National NSBIS above.<br />
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==Resources==<br />
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'''Related articles'''<br />
* [[National Domestic Extremism Database]].<br />
* [[National Domestic Extremism Unit]]<br />
* [[National Common Intelligence Application]]<br />
* [[Special Branch Registry]]<br />
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'''External documents'''<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-WS-1.pdf Witness statement of Det. Insp. Alistair Pocock], 2017 (via ucpi.org.uk)<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pocock-XB-AP-170405-1.pdf NSBIS Review, Retention and Disposal Guide], 2008 (via ucpi.org.uk)<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-XB-JL-161103-2.pdf NBSIS Weeding Overview, undated (via ucpi.org.uk)]<ref>Post June 2012, when NSBIS was upgraded to version 4.2. See [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-XB-JL-161103-1.pdf NCTPOC (NDEDIU NSBIS Versions Used History], ''NCTPOC / Metropolitan Police'', undated (accessed via ucpi.org.uk where it is an exhibit to the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-WS-1.pdf witness statement of Jeffrey Lamprey]).</ref><br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Cox-XB-RC-281116-1.pdf Business case for new NDEDIU NSBIS instance, 25 October 2013] (via ucpi.org.uk)<br />
* [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamprey-XB-JL-161103-3.pdf ACPO TAM Intelligence Systems Services - ISS Pre Transformation Visit to NDEDIU, Monday 24th March to Friday 28th March 2014 v1.1] (via ucpi.org.uk)<br />
* [https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.70/561.6fe.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NDEDIU-Nominal-Creation-Policy-v8-Redacted.pdf NDEDIU Nominal Creation Policy], 2013 (via Netpol.org)<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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'''Rod Richardson''' was the alias of an undercover police officer who infiltrated London-based and environmental groups from 1999 to 2003. This page looks at his activities with London-based groups, mainly the Movement Against Monarchy, the W.O.M.B.L.E.S., and the international protests he attended.<br />
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''See also''<br />
* [[Rod Richardson]] (main page)<br />
* [[Rod Richardson: environmental targets]] (Rettendon, Nottingham &amp; Earth First!)<br />
* [[Rod Richardson: policing]] (undercover policing and chains of command)<br />
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* ''Note from Undercover Research Group: the Movement Against Monarchy and the WOMBLES partook in or organised various events throughout the time Rod was involved with them. While we have chronicled many of his known activities, there are still gaps. If you can shed light on, please [mailto:contact@undercoverresearch.net contact us], even if it is to simply confirm what others have told us.''<br />
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==Movement Against Monarchy==<br />
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Rod's first target in London was the anarchist based Movement Against Monarchy (MAM) which he joined in 2000<ref name="imc.1"/><ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/> An off-shoot of Class War, MAM was active from 1997 to 2002 and carried out a number of high profile actions against the royal family. In 1997, when it planned a march on the home of Camilla Parker-Bowles, police said would investigate the group.<ref>Yard to investigate anti-Camilla group, ''The Evening Standard'', 24 July 1997 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> The year 2000 saw a high point of activity with multiple protests occurring in London and elsewhere, with considerable media attention, which included an interview for the ''Daily Mail'' by Commissioner [[John Stevens]] who declared the Royal Family could be at risk from the group.<ref>Anarchists to target the Queen: Britain's top police chief warns of a new threat..., Daily Mail, 10 May 2000 (accessed via Nexis).</ref> On the ground it experienced an increase in police attention that year.<ref name="tb.p.27-7-16">Undercover Research Group: interview with Trevor Bark, activist with Movement Against Monarchy, 27 July 2016.</ref> In June 2000, four members were arrested for publicly mooning at Buckingham Palace,<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/775725.stm Cheeky anarchists in palace protest], ''BBC News Online'', 3 June 2000 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> while a protest targeted the first public appearance of Prince Charles and Camilla in public together.<ref>Keith Perry, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/21/monarchy.keithperry It's semi-official: Charles and Camilla attend gala], ''The Guardian'', 21 June 2000 (accessed via Nexis).</ref> July 2000, brought the group back to public attention when it called for a protest against the Queen Mother's centenary birthday celebrations on 4 August, which lead to fears her open-top carriage parade would have to be cancelled due to police concerns.<ref>Andrew Alderson, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1347570/Queen-Mother-will-defy-anti-royal-protest.html Queen Mother will defy anti-royal protest], ''The Telegraph'', 9 July 2000 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> The group was also active in the June 18 Carnival Against Capitalism in 1999, and in the 2000 and 2001 MayDay protests.<br />
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Rod's first known contact with MAM came through the Rettendon camp, when a team of people from MAM visited the camp. Rod became involved with the group after that,<ref name="s.e.12-12-16">Undercover Research Group: email from Simon Chapman, London activist with Movement Against Monarchy and the W.O.M.B.L.E.S., 12 December 2016.</ref> having subsequently turned up at a MAM pub meeting in early 2000,<ref name="s.p.11-12-16">Undercover Research Group: phone-call with Simon Chapman, 11 December 2016.</ref> and continued attending the group's meetings in Hackney (where the group was mainly based) and Whitechapel.<ref name="tb.p.27-7-16"/> Through these he was in a position to hear lots of information relating to group members.<ref name="s.p.11-12-16"/> Paul Stott, active with MAM in London at the time, recalled that Rod 'was always' there, but tended to be somewhere in the middle, neither hanging around the back or seeking to be at the front of things.<ref name="ps.24-7-16"/> Nor did he join Class War, previously a target for infiltration, remaining only with the informally organised MAM.<ref name="ps.24-7-16">Undercover Research Group: interview with Paul Stott, 24 July 2016.</ref><ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/><br />
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In May 2000 press attention on the group suddenly ramped up following statements by Commissioner of Police [[John Stevens]] about the group's planned activities, namely protesting Royal family related events, particularly the upcoming 100th birthday celebrations of the Queen Mother. At least one person connected to the group was raided by Special Branch at the time.<ref>Tim Luckett, Eton rioter's secret war with royals, ''Sunday Mirror'', 14 May 2000 (accessed via Nexis).</ref><ref>Nigel Rosser, May Day anarchist who is targeting monarchy, ''Evening Standard'', 11 May 2000 (accessed via Nexis).</ref><br />
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Rod took part in discussions for protests planned for the Queen Mother's 100th birthday (celebrations for this took place in August 2000).<ref name="imc.1"/> and is known to have been at one protest where an effigy of the Queen Mother was pushed around Hackney in a pram.<ref name="Charlie.4-2-17">Undercover Research Group: interview with 'Charlie', 2 February 2017.</ref> Julie Chadwick recalled meeting him on this day. She had turned up at the pub where the group had assembled prior to the protest and found it surrounded by police. There she spotted Rod waiting alone outside the pub, not far from the police, and went to speak to him. They both then joined the small, peaceful march around Hackney which she recalled protestors being outnumbered by police around 5 to 1.<ref name="jc.p.26.5.17">Undercover Research Group: phone call with Julie Chadwick, 26 May 2017.</ref> <br />
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Rod also attended the demonstration of 30 May 2002 in Hackney,<ref name="tb.p.27-7-16"/><ref>'Agent Royally Pissed Off', [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/05/32732.html?c=on#c32764 Royal Pie Flinger Arrested as Sophie and Edward visit Hackney], ''Indymedia UK'', 30 May 2002 (accessed 31 July 2016).</ref> against a royal walk-about by Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex who were there as part of the Queen's Jubilee celebrations<ref>Today's royal engagements, ''The Times'', 30 May 2002 (accessed via Nexis).</ref> This may be the same MAM demonstration in Hackney, which Rod was also known to be at which had a considerable police presence, and included Special Branch officers making themselves known to activists who were in a pub on the day.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/> Afterwards, the royal couple visited New Scotland Yard to learn more about the police's preparation for the Golden Jubilee.<ref>Court circular, ''The Times'', 30 May 2002 (accessed via Nexis).</ref><br />
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At the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations of 2002, a large number of people at a protest held by the group on 4 June were pre-emptively arrested 'to protect public safety' at Tower Bridge. In 2004, 23 of the 41 arrested on the day who successfully sued were paid £5,300 each and received an apology from the police for wrongful arrest.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3459393.stm Jubilee protesters get damages], ''BBC News Online'', 4 February 2004 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> Prior to the Jubilee celebrations newspaper reports wrote of Special Branch monitoring online discussions.<ref>Paul Harris &amp; Burhan Wazir, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/mar/24/jubilee.monarchy Anarchists plan jubilee mayhem], ''The Guardian'', 24 March 2002 (accessed 7 February 2017).</ref> It has yet to be ascertained if Rod was involved in this event or when MAM activists threatened to protest in Derby in 2002 against the Queen's visit to the city.<ref>Daniel Bentley, 'Anarchists' demo threats to Queen; Website plans to ambush city's Royal visit', Derby Evening Telegraph'', 2 March 2002 (accessed via Nexis).</ref><ref>Rod is not believed to have been present for the MAM protest at the 2000 Maundy Tuesday event at Lincoln Cathedral; the protest was not a secret and was met by police from the Royalty Protection unit. Undercover Research Group: email from Simon Chapman, 31 January 2017.</ref><br />
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It appeared to people in Nottingham that MAM was something Rod was very much into and would make jokes about doing stuff with them;<ref name="mp.i.9Aug2015">Undercover Research Group: interview with Mark Pointer (alias), a Nottingham activist who worked and lived with Rod Richardson, 9 August 2015.</ref> albeit, there was not much interest in that campaign in that city.<ref name="Yvette"/><br />
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Rod also attended at least one meeting of anti-monarchist activists in Norwich<ref name="laura.1"/><ref>Undercover Research Group: email from 'W', 1 February 2017.</ref><ref name="tug.7-2-17">Undercover Research Group: email from 'Tug Wilson', 7 February 2017.</ref> and wore on occasion a t-shirts with the slogan 'Queen Mum, hurry up and die'.<ref name="tug.7-2-17"/><br />
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==W.O.M.B.L.E.S.==<br />
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While with Movement Against Monarchy, Rod also appears to been associated himself to Reclaim the Streets, and in particular its off-shoot, the White Overall Movement Building Libertarian Effective Struggles, better known as the WOMBLES. This was an anarchist group inspired by the Italian ''Ya Basta!'' movement, and drew heavily on experiences of British activists at the September 2000 counter-mobilisation against the International Monetary Fund in Prague.<br />
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From 2001 to 2004 the WOMBLES was a high profile group in the UK anti-globalisation and anarchist movements and had a strong presence at MayDay demonstrations and international mobilisations. The high profile was helped by the distinctive white overalls they wore and the willingness to confront police violence on demonstrations. They were also closely associated with the international network, Peoples' Global Action.<br />
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From early on, it was recognised they had attracted attention from Special Branch, and in April 2001 there appeared press reports that MI5 and Special Branch had started running covert operations against them.<ref>John Vidal & Nick Hopkins, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/14/greenpolitics.mayday Fluffies on the run as spikies win battle of the streets], ''The Guardian'', 14 April 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> <br />
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'''Note on tradcraft'''<br />
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With the WOMBLES, Rod demonstrated other features of undercover police tradecraft that were not so clear with the other groups he targeted. In particular, he focused his attention on one person who was a leading figure in the group.<ref name="Charlie.2-11-16"/> Despite his own dislike of being photographed, he brought video cameras to actions, claiming to be doing films for Indymedia,<ref name="laura.1">Laura Oldfield Ford, [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/01/rod-undercover-police-officer-friend How I met 'Rod', the suspected undercover police officer], ''The Guardian'', 1 March 2013 (accessed 10 January 2017).</ref> though no evidence of him actually posting them or otherwise involved in Indymedia has been found.<ref name="mc.10-1-17">Undercover Research Group: email from Mark Covell, an Indymedia activist, 10 January 2017.</ref> <br />
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===Origins of the WOMBLES (2000)===<br />
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[[Image:Wombles in distinctive white overalls.jpg|thumb|W.O.M.B.L.E.S. in their distinctive white overalls during a protest.]]<br />
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By the time Rod came on the scene, Reclaim the Streets (RtS) was in the process of winding down as the leading anti-globalisation movement in London, now less a political collective and more of a forum. Ongoing political differences were taking people various directions with people focusing on other projects. The WOMBLES were one of the groups which emerged in this period,such as Indymedia, samba, Rising Tide, anti-arms trade protest, etc - a number of which would also be infiltrated by other Special Branch undercover officers such as [[Jason Bishop]].<br />
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Inspired by events in Prague that September, the WOMBLES as a concept was launched at the Anarchist Bookfair in October 2000.<ref name="s.e.31-1-17">Undercover Research Group: email from 'Steve', 31 January 2017.</ref> In December 2000, the process was catalysed further following the Cock Tavern incident (see below), as political differences became more apparent, and according to one member of the WOMBLES all that was left was to chose a name.<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/><br />
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Rod was invited to join the emerging group and became a member of its internal mailing list through which he would have had access to minutes of its meetings.<ref name="s.p.11-12-16"/><br />
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===Cock Tavern incident (2000)===<br />
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The Cock Tavern pub, near Euston, had been a regular meeting venue for Reclaim the Streets, but also others including dissident republicans. It had been named in press as the venue where RtS held meetings in the run up to their MayDay 2000 'Guerrilla Gardening' action.<ref>John Vidal, Guerrilla gardeners plot to reclaim the world, ''The Guardian'', 22 April 2000.</ref><br />
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In December 2000, the National Front called a demonstration outside the pub to protest the presence of the republican groups.<ref>Jason Johnson, NF calls on loyalists to target Mackey pub, ''The People'', 3 December 2000 (accessed via Nexis).</ref> This was met by a counter-demonstration from anti-fascists who confronted them, among them people from groups Rod was associated with. On the evening of the confrontation, Rod apparently went to check out the nearby Royal George pub at Euston, where he claimed to have spotted some of them. He then went to join the Reclaim the Streets group who were present with other anti-fascist protestors.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/><br />
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===MayDay 2001===<br />
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[[Image:Wombles Protest (London 2001).jpg|thumb|W.O.M.B.L.E.S. marching during a protest in London, 2001.]]<br />
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From December 2000, the WOMBLES took a leading role in organising protests for the 2001 MayDay. On the 20th of that month they organise mini-conference at the Button Factory, Brixton; groups from across the UK attend, including Class War, Anarchist Communist Federation and Reclaim the Streets.<ref name="womble.chron">[http://community.fortunecity.ws/marina/bay/165/files/chronology.htm Introduction to the WOMBLES: Chronology of action], archive of WOMBLES website hosted on FortuneCity.ws, undated (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> The protest is named Mayday Monopoly after the board game, and the subsequent literature and websites calls for a series of autonomous, decentralised action based this idea.<ref>[http://www.urban75.org/mayday01/monopoly.html MayDay Monopoly Game Guide to Anti-Capitalist Actions in London], ''Urban75.net'' (reproduction of material from protest website MaydayMonopoly.net, undated (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref><br />
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[[Image:Mayday monopoly.JPG|thumb|Mayday Monopoly leaflet (2001).<ref name="transpontine"/>]]<br />
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The Button Factory was a squatted social centre squat on Wanless Road, Herne Hill Lane, SE24, which had been a host for local events, parties and had a cafe.<ref>[http://www.urban75.org/mayday01/001.html Button Factory raided], ''Urban75.net'', 1 April 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref><ref name="ns.16-4-01">[http://www.newstatesman.com/node/193976 High noon at the vegan cafe], ''New Statesman'', 16 April 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> It was used by the WOMBLES as a meeting space in the first half of 2001 and hosted the 'London Underground' monthly forum which included discussions of events for the 2001 Mayday.<ref>[http://www.ainfos.ca/01/jan/ainfos00146.html Email announcing meeting in January 2001], ''A-Infos News Service'', 11 January 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> Rod, active in the WOMBLES by this time, is known to have attended the Button Factory on a number of occasions.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/><ref name="Charlie.2-11-16"/><br />
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Through-out early 2001, while planning for MayDay continued, the WOMBLES engaged in several large scale actions, though it is not clear if Rod was at them. These included:<br />
* Defending a protest marking the 10th anniversary of the bombing of Iraq in Parliament Square from police attack.<ref name="womble.chron"/><br />
* 11 March 2001: a WOMBLES action shuts down NikeTown, Nike's flagship store on Oxford Street, London, in solidarity with striking Nike workers in Mexico and the Zapatista struggle for autonomy.<ref name="womble.chron"/><ref>Fur flies over WOMBLES demo, ''Daily Record'', 123 March 2001 (accessed via Nexis).</ref><br />
* 23 - 25 March 2001, the WOMBLES participate in the Peoples' Global Action meeting in Milan called by Ya Basta!<ref name="womble.chron"/><ref>[https://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/milan/index.htm Call for the European Meeting of People's Global Action], Nadir.org, 20 January 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> Police hold and question two members of the WOMBLES returning this meeting at Stansted airport.<ref name="kane-neslen">Frank Kane & Arthur Neslen, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/08/globalisation.mayday Police chiefs will lose jobs if they fail to block MayDay anarchy], ''The Observer'', 8 April 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> (Rod was not among those at the Milan meeting.<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/>)<br />
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At the time there was huge political pressure on the police to prevent a repeat of the events of the 2000 MayDay, with senior officers being told they could lose their jobs if there was a repeat of the previous year. The police focused heavily on the WOMBLES, filming them handing out leaflets and monitoring benefit concerts. From 12 April, the Met stepped up their media campaign talking up 'zero tolerance' against those who were 'hijacking' the MayDay protests. <ref>[http://www.schnews.org.uk/sotw/mayday-madness.htm Pressing The Button], ''SchNEWS'', undated (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref><br />
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'Steve', an activist with the WOMBLES, recalled that in early 2001 an intense media campaign begun. Initially, in February, it targeted the London May Day Collective (an umbrella group), but around March it switched focus to the WOMBLES. He also noted that many of the reports seemed to come from the same police source (he noted there was similar spelling mistakes across the board and erroneous references).<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/> It was also later learned that police were doing twice daily briefings for journalists.<ref>Simon Chapman particularly pointed out the press kept referring to the S26 Collective's role in planning for MayDay. This was a defunct group which had only existed for teh mobilisation against the IMF / World Bank meeting on 26 September 2000, and had nothing to do with the London May Day Collective. Email from Simon Chapman, 31 January 2017.</ref> <br />
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The police and media campaign sought to deter people from attending, effectively criminalising protest. This included statements from Tony Blair<ref>Helen Burnes, [http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/britain/protest-and-resistance/1144-may-day-protest-against-capitalism-frfi-161-jun-jul-2001 MayDay protest against capitalism], ''Fight Racism, Fight Imperialism'', Issue 161, June-July 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref><ref>Alexander Barley, [http://www.newstatesman.com/node/193976 High noon at the vegan cafe], ''New Statesman'', 16 April 2001 (accessed via Nexis)</ref> and dubious stories of people planning to bringing samurai swords.<ref>Simon Jeffrey, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/may/01/qanda MayDay], ''The Guardian'', 1 May 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> A £1 million police operation under Assistant Commissioner [[Michael Todd]], and Commander [[Michael Messinger]] was put in place with a declaration of 'zero tolerance' towards protestors. Police themselves believed the plan was to seize and ransack a major store on Oxford Street.<ref>David Bamber, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1317621/Police-mobilise-for-May-Day-mayhem.html Police mobilise for MayDay mayhem], 30 April 2016 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref><ref>Thomas Harding & John Steele, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1328681/London-braced-for-the-May-Day-mayhem.html London braced for MayDay mayhem], ''The Telegraph'', 1 May 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> The press stated the police were focused on several organisations - Class War, WOMBLES and the S26/M1 umbrella group.<ref>Martin Bright & Frank Kane, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/22/globalisation.mayday Armed police on MayDay riot alert], ''The Guardian'', 22 April 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> Many businesses would pre-emptively close for the day, supposedly costing £20 million in lost revenue.<br />
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====The 'Button Factory' raid====<br />
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On 30 March 2001: police raided the Button Factory. In press at the time, it was alleged to be 'an anarchist training centre' where groups were preparing for the upcoming MayDay protests. 200 police from the Metropolitan Police, City of London Police and British Transport Police were involved in 'Operation Dursley', under the command of Det. Ch. Supt. [[Bob Randall]] to occupy the empty building. The raid was authorised by no less than Commissioner [[John Stevens]] who in statements to the press justifying the large police operation, cited intelligence that activists were using it to prepare for MayDay, the preparations apparently including targeting the police, government buildings and businesses over MayDay and the following days.<ref name="bamber.1-4-01">David Bamber, Anarchist base destroyed in dawn raid Police thwart plan to train 500 rioters for violent confrontation on MayDay, ''The Telegraph'', 1 April 2001 (accessed via Nexis).</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1254086.stm Police raid 'anarchist' base], ''BBC News Online'', 1 April 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> Rod is known to have visited the squat,<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/> which remained under police surveillance after the eviction, in which the police used diggers to demolish part of it in an attempt to prevent its reuse.<ref name="ns.16-4-01"/> <br />
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A now-deleted article from the ''Sunday Times'' indicated 150 police were involved in the raid, led by Metropolitan Police Special Branch, and that Special Branch had identified 20/30 core people in the WOMBLES.<ref>The Sunday Times article (URL: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/04/01/stinwenws01010.html) is cited at in the comments section of [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/04/2650.html?c=on Police raid 'anarchist' base in London], ''Indymedia UK'', 1 April 2001 (accessed 24 July 2016).</ref> Journalists with the ''Daily Telegraph'', including David Bamber, were invited to join the raid itself and report on it as an exclusive.<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/><ref name="bamber.1-4-01"/> Bamber's article quoted Randall as saying:<ref name="bamber.1-4-01"/><br />
:: There is no doubt that this new radical organisation of anarchists is importing a frightening brand of continental-style violence into British protests. We have seen violent tactics used around the world against government leaders and business organisations in Prague and Seattle. Now they are being used here. Last year's MayDay riots showed what mayhem and destruction can be caused when things get out of hand and this new organisation is actively preparing and inciting people to cause violence.... Last year's demonstration was largely organised by Reclaim the Streets, which is a peaceful organisation, although there was trouble. This year the organisation has been overtaken by far more violent groups.<br />
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A report in ''The Guardian'' quoted police on the intelligence operation around the WOMBLES in the run up to MayDay.<ref>John Vidal &amp; Nick Hopkins, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/14/greenpolitics.mayday Fluffies on the run as spikies win battle of the streets], ''The Guardian'', 14 April 2001 (accessed 2 January 2017).</ref><br />
:: The police are not giving too much away at this stage. They have "an intelligence picture", built up by covert operations led by Special Branch and MI5, but do not know how accurate or clear it is.<br />
:: The Met's assistant commissioner Mike Todd, who is in overall charge of MayDay policing this year, was candid enough to admit this week that none of the ringleaders of last year's trouble had been caught.<br />
:: There is concern that the protests that have been heavily flagged on the internet and in the MayDay Monopoly game guide pamphlet will not be the focus of any trouble.<br />
:: "Is there a hidden agenda?", said an officer. "We don't think so. But we cannot be sure."<br />
:: By sabre-rattling at this stage, the police are hoping to make trouble-makers think twice before coming at all. "We have intelligence on certain individuals who we think are pulling the strings behind the scenes, but we do not have evidence," said one officer. "We think we know who they are. Intelligence can help us prepare, but it won't get someone arrested. Intelligence can also be wrong. We won't really know what we're dealing with until the day." <br />
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====MayDay 2001 & the 'Bacon Factory'====<br />
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Despite the eviction of the Button Factory, which was to be one 'convergence centre', the WOMBLES continued to be active in organising for MayDay, and in particular the 'MayDay Monopoly' protests which brought together various anti-globalisation and anarchist groups. On 21 April, the WOMBLES hosted the 'Sale of the Century' public meeting as part of the lead up to MayDay. The considerable media and police attention continues, including overt monitoring by [[Forward Intelligence Teams]].<ref name="womble.chron"/><br />
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At one open meeting in the run up, held at the Conway Hall, the police sought to hand some people a letter regarding the planning of the protests.<ref name="anon.i.13-9-16">Undercover Research Group: interview with a WOMBLES activist who knew Rod Richardson, 13 September 2016; email of 16 December 2016.</ref> Rod also is known to have attended one planning meeting in relation to MayDay which took place in April 2001 at the Southbank Centre.<ref name="laura.1"/><br />
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Police were stated to be searching for two inner-city sites that organisers were planning to take over as alternative convergence centres to host people coming to the protests from outside the city. A report in the ''Evening Standard'' by Nigel Rosser and Justin Davenport wrote:<ref>Nigel Rosser &amp; Justin Davenport, Desperate London hunt for anarchists' MayDay boltholes, ''The Evening Standard'', 27 April 2001 (accessed via Nexis).</ref><br />
:: One anarchist source said: "There are two likely places, rundown warehouses or the like. These have been identified but none of the leaders are saying where until the last minute. We know police are alive to the probability of this."<br/>A senior police officer said: "We are aware they are trying to set one of these places up and we are monitoring what they do. We believe they may be ready to move in by the weekend." If police cannot get a court order in time to stop the occupation of the camp, they will flood the area with officers and carry out overt surveillance, senior detectives have told the Standard.<br />
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The same journalists would go on to name and detail the background of a leading WOMBLES activist in an ''Evening Standard'' article several days later on the 30 April, just before MayDay. They also reveal that police had attempted to serve a letter on him demanding to know plans for MayDay.<ref>Nigel Rosser &amp; Justin Davenport, Standard identifies leader of the Wombles, ''The Evening Standard'', 30 April 2001 (accessed via Nexis).</ref> Prior to this, he had not been publicly named, and some of the personal detail appeared to have come from intelligence sources.<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/> However, this naming and profiling of prominent activists in the press is something that other campaigns that were targeted by NPOIU undercovers would experience as well, particularly SPEAK Campaigns in Oxford and the 2007 Camp for Climate Action at Heathrow.<ref name="personal.comm">Undercover Research Group: various personal communications.</ref><br />
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Another media report stated the police had identified nine anarchists who they said were masterminding MayDay protests and had sent them letters asking for details of plans. Some had no previous records and were included on grounds of being linked to the WOMBLES.<ref>Daniel McGrory &amp; Stewart Tendler, Police target masterminds of city chaos, ''The Times'', 1 May 2001 (accessed via Nexis).</ref><br />
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On 27 April 2001, Rod took part in the occupation of the 'Bacon Factory', a derelict meat processing facility on Great Suffolk Street, near London Bridge.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/><ref>Situated at The Old Bacon Factory 57-59, Great Suffolk St, SE1 0BS. It was seized by bailiffs on MayDay - see: Cahal Milmo, MayDay Protests: The Headquarters - Spikies HQ open to anyone but 'pigs and journos', ''The Independent'', 2 May 2001 (accessed via Nexis).</ref> It became the convergence centre for the anarchists' MayDay mobilisation,<ref name="womble.chron"/> and Rod is known to have done some of his 'Worms of Doom' paintings on its walls.<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/><br />
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MayDay itself opens with police surrounding the convergence centre the Bacon Factory, where there are early skirmishes as protestors seek to leave. 6000 police have been deployed for the day.<ref> Sandra Laville, David Millward &amp; Thomas Harding, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1328789/Police-tactics-stop-anarchists-from-passing-go.html Police tactics stop anarchists from passing go], ''The Telegraph'', 2 May 2001 (accessed 2 January 2017).</ref><br />
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One of the actions planned for the 2001 Mayday was conducted by the South London Mayday Collective, which planned a blockade of the Elephant & Castle Roundabout.<ref name="transpontine">'La Infanta de Castilla', [https://transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/may-day-2001-police-spy-at-elephant.html MayDay 2001: a police spy at the Elephant & Castle?], Transpontine (blog), 22 March 2013 (accessed 25 Jan 2017).</ref> Rod attended a number of the meetings which planned this action, though people connected to it and the flat the meetings were held in was raided by police (see under 'Suspicions' for further details).<ref name="laura.1"/> The action itself took place with several hundred people occupying the roundabout at noon, holding it for several hours, before leaving for central London.<ref name="transpontine"/><br />
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[[Image:South London Mayday Collective Leaflet (2001).jpg|thumb|South London Mayday Collective, Mayday 2001 leaflet.<ref name="transpontine"/>]]<br />
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Ten protestors and two police are recorded as injured by police, while a total of 91 arrests are said to have taken place throughout the day.<ref>'Indymedia', [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/09/277906.html Mayday 2001 Timeline], ''Indymedia UK'', 30 April 2001 ''passim'' (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref><ref name="guardian.2-1.1.01">[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/may/01/mayday.immigrationpolicy The London MayDay protests at a glance], ''The Guardian'', 1 May 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref><ref name="guardian.2-1.1.01">Sarah Left, Simon Jeffery, Jane Perrone and agencies, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/may/01/mayday.immigrationpolicy1 Violence erupts in central London], ''The Guardian'', 1 May 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref><ref>'indymedia', [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/09/277902.html Mayday Monopoly 2001], ''Indymedia UK'', 30 April 2001 ''passim'' (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref><br />
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====Mayday 2001: Oxford Street protest====<br />
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Rod participates in the large WOMBLES action of the day, the first big public event for the group.<ref name="imc.1">[http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/02/506316.html Information on "Rod Richardson", suspected undercover cop], ''Indymedia UK'', 6 February 2013 (accessed 24 December 2015).</ref><ref name="alex.i.18-4-16">Undercover Research Group: interview with Alex, London-based activist who knew Rod Richardson, 18 April 2016.</ref><ref name="anon.i.13-9-16"/> The WOMBLES main plan had been a convergence on Oxford Circus, something announced in advance. Entitled 'Sale of the Century, it had been called for 4pm, after the other main events of MayDay were over. People began assembling there from 2pm and by 3pm 1,500-3000 protestors were in the area. Various individual demonstrations take place and there is a long stand-off with police. At various points in and around Oxford Street police charge and injure protestors; 40 arrests take place.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1305478.stm London MayDay stand-off continues], ''BBC News Online'', 1 May 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> <br />
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With Oxford Circus effectively shut off by police by 3pm and the area chaotic, the group had to reform its plan to assemble there at 4pm. A group of about 20-40 WOMBLES, Rod among them, assemble in Soho, coming together with some equipment which they don in an alleyway. Just before 5pm they set off, emerging from Wardour Street to cross Oxford Street, heading north to Great Portland Street. On the way they pick up hundreds of followers among the protestors there. Spare overalls, padding and helmets are distributed. Led by a line of WOMBLES two deep, they take a route towards Harley Street / Cavendish Square to come behind the main police formation at Oxford Circus (where mounted police are being used to charge protestors). Turning down Holles Street, they broke through a police lines there to re-emerge on Oxford Street outside the John Lewis store at 5.15pm.<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/><ref name="mdc.u75">W.O.M.B.L.E.S., [http://www.urban75.org/mayday01/013.html Mayday Communiqué: Don't Believe the Hype!], Urban75.org, May 2001 (accessed 2 January 2017).</ref> Police then charge protestors using shields and batons. Over the next half-hour there are several clashes with police around Holles Street who attack protestors trying to join up with each other and release those imprisoned at Oxford Circus. (Protestors caught there would remain trapped until late into the night) Police lines are broken several times, though a number of protestors are injured.<ref name="guardian.2-1.1.01"/> <br />
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During these clashes, Simon Chapman, a fellow WOMBLE, who despite being padded was wobbling from being on the receiving end of a heavy bout of police violence at the front of the protest. Rod came and took him away from the front line. The pair then left the demonstration for the fall-back plan, a pub out of central London, being the first of their group to arrive at it.<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/> Others in the group continued with a group between 600-1000 strong moved back south and east for a march through central London, eventually cumulating at High Holborn from which they dispersed.<ref name="mdc.u75"/> Over the evening others from the WOMBLES would join Rod and Simon at the pub.<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/><br />
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===May - August 2001===<br />
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The WOMBLES continue to be active on various projects and protests in the months after MayDay. With the West London Anarchists and Radicals, it forms the London Mayday Collective which provides support to those imprisoned after MayDay and holds a demonstration calling for their release on 2 June.<ref>[http://community.fortunecity.ws/marina/bay/165/j2march.htm LONDON - BIRMINGHAM - QUEBEC Drop The Charges! Release The Prisoners!], archive of WOMBLES website hosted on FortuneCity.ws, undated (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> (It is not known if Rod was present at this). On 5 June an attempt to protest at corporate media offices, including the Daily Mail, which Rod is not thought to have been,<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/> is disrupted by police presence.<ref name="womble.chron"/><ref>[http://community.fortunecity.ws/marina/bay/165/photos_freespeech.htm 5 June 2001: Operation Freespeech Wombles in Millbank protest], archive of WOMBLES website hosted on FortuneCity.ws, undated (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref><br />
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Rod attends the international mobilisation against the European Union in Gothenburg on 15th June 2001 (see below), where a comrade from the WOMBLES is arrested and imprisoned. A UK-based defence campaign was established, the Gothenburg Solidarity Group, which held around a dozen protests at the Swedish embassy in London.<ref name="womble.chron"/><ref>'@lex', [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/10/14347.html 17 arrests in Sweden, re: Gothenburg. More to come?], ''Indymedia UK'', 18 October 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> Rod attended a number of these demonstrations, as well as related benefit gigs.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/><br />
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In July, Rod joined 20 WOMBLES at the anti-G8 mobilisation in Genoa (see below). At the same time as the G8, a solidarity day of action at the Campsfield Detention Centre in Oxfordshire is shut down by a heavy police presence. Later that month, the 22nd, a demonstration was held at the Italian embassy over events in Genoa; called at short notice, it was attended by people from the WOMBLES, Class War and Movement Against Monarchy. Rod is not remembered as being there. Initially the numbers present seemed to catch police by surprise, though eventually they mustered enough to kettle the protest.<ref>Undercover Research Group: email from Paul Stott, 27 July 2016.</ref><br />
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On 28 July, Rod is present at a WOMBLES action when a group of ten occupy the Benetton shop on Oxford Street, dropping banner drop.<ref name="anon.i.13-9-16"/><ref name="womble.chron"/> This was part of a larger day of solidarity with those arrested in Genoa. The day including a large protest at the Italian embassy, led in part by Globalise Resistance, at that point infiltrated by undercover officer [[Simon Wellings]].<ref>IMCista, [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/07/8365.html Italian Embassy Genoa Protest Pics 28.07.01], ''Indymedia UK'', 29 July 2001 (accessed 20 October 2016).</ref> The WOMBLES own report of the day stated:<ref>a womble, [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/07/8251.html W.O.M.B.L.E.S G8 solidarity action], ''Indymedia UK'', 28 July 2001 (accessed 20 October 2016).</ref> <br />
:: We arrived at Oxford Circus at 3pm, ran into Bennetton, handing out leaflets and causing general mayhem, while some of us held a massive banner at the corner of Oxford Circus, reading 'Castrate G8'. Security acted slowly and we got out of the shop with few problems, narrowly missing a couple of bobbys on the beat.<br />
:: We held the banner and the corner of Oxford Circus for about half an hour, with the help and protection of about 40 of our friends in blue, who kindly halted traffic for us, closed one of the station entrances, and maintained a heavy presence at the door of Bennetton and at Niketown opposite, thus dissuading people from entering, hindering trade, and making sure that the whole of Oxford Circus ground to a halt to watch us.<br />
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It was noted that the Forward Intelligence Team were very focused on the WOMBLES, following them for most of the day.<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/><br />
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During Summer 2001 the WOMBLES took part in several other activities though is not known if Rod was connected to them (please get in touch if you can confirm any of this):<br />
* 29 June: the group participates in the March Against Racism and Brutality in Tottenham.<br />
* 7 July: the WOMBLES host a picnic of 50 people on in Wimbledon which has police leafleting the local community while two riot vans and Forward Intelligence Teams present.<ref name="womble.chron"/> Rod is thought to have probably been at it, but this is to be confirmed.<ref name="Charlie.2-11-16"/><br />
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Following the events of Genoa and its aftermath, Rod pretty much vanished from the WOMBLES scene until the planning for DSEi began.<ref name="Charlie.2-11-16"/><br />
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===DSEi 2001===<br />
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[[Image:Wombles assembling at DSEI 2001.jpg|thumb|W.O.M.B.L.E.S. assembling for protest at the 2001 DSEi arms fair.]]<br />
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The next large mobilisation after Genoa which the WOMBLES participated in was the biennial DSEi arms fair. In 2001, it was part run by the Ministry of Defence and due to place over 11th-14th September at the ExCeL centre in the London Docklands. A number of groups including Campaign Against the Arms Trade and Disarm DSEi planned protests at it. Disarm DSEi was a coalition of direct action and anti-capitalist groups at the time led by Reclaim the Street and the WOMBLES. It had united with CAAT to promote the 'Fiesta for Life Against Death', in which various groups would converge on the ExCeL centre on 11th September for the opening of the exhibition. In particular, the WOMBLES would focus on a march from Canning Street to the centre.<ref name="schnews.321">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160803190336/http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news321.htm All the gun of the fair], ''SchNEWS'', Issue 321, 7 September 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref><ref>Disarm DSEi, [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/09/10787.html Disarm DSEi press release], ''Indymedia UK'', 6 September 2001 (accessed 8 January 2017).</ref><ref>'Uncle B', [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/08/9579.html Disarm DSEi! Civil disobedience against the trade in death], ''Indymedia UK'', 18 August 2001 (accessed 8 January 2017).</ref><ref>IMC-UK, [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/10/278442.html Fiesta for Life in the Docklands 2001], ''Indymedia UK'', 11 September 2001 (accessed 8 January 2017).</ref><ref>An archive of the website for the 'Fiesta for Life against Death' can be found at [https://web.archive.org/web/20160803214220/http://www.disarm-trade.org/ Disarm-Trade.org (via Archive.org)] (accessed 8 January 2017).</ref><br />
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Though the Disarm DSEi website stated: 'Come in costumes. Think pink and silver. Bring drums, instruments, food and water to share, props, puppets, banners, circus skills, your blue suede shoes, and your love of life', police focused on fears that the protests could turn violent.<ref>Steven Morris and Richard Norton-Taylor, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/sep/10/armstrade.world Police fear violence at arms fair: Protesters say 'fiesta for life against death' will be peaceful], ''The Guardian'', 10 September 2001 (accessed 8 January 2017).</ref>. Before the protest, a WOMBLE was quoted in the press as saying: We are going to help out with the action. Our actions depend on the police. If they surround us and start beating people then there will be a reaction.<ref>Tom Harding, Protest to weapons fair, ''Daily Telegraph'', 11 September 2001 (accessed via Nexis).</ref><br />
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Police planning for the protests had apparently started a year previously, and with 600 officers involved was the largest public order police operation since MayDay.<ref name="rosser.11-9-01">Nigel Rosser, Huge police operation to contain arms fair protest, ''The Evening Standard'', 11 September 2001 (accessed via Nexis).</ref> It is also notable that another activist who had been in Reclaim the Streets and gone on to take a leading role in Disarm DSEi was undercover officer [[Jason Bishop]].<ref name="netpol">[https://netpol.org/2013/07/25/jason-bishop-new-allegations-of-undercover-policing-of-protest/ Jason Bishop – new allegations of undercover policing of protest], ''Network for Police Monitoring'', 25 July 2013 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref><br />
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====Squat raids====<br />
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In the run up to Mayday, the WOMBLES were connected to two squats in south London. The 'Dentist Factory' on the corner of Great Dover Street and Globe Street (Elephant & Castle), and one at 126 Tooley Street, near London Bridge. The Dentist Factory was a social centre which had been used to store material for the WOMBLES as well as host larger meetings and some benefit gigs.<ref name="imc.7-9-01"/><ref name="imc.7-9-01c"/> <br />
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The Tooley Street squat was opened as a women's only space. It had previously been a reprographic unit and barrels marked 'HAZCHEM', though empty had been left there; these were subsequently converted into toilets. Several bottles of developing fluid had also been left there by the previous tenants.<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/> Their presence was used to justify both buildings being raided by police in what was clearly an intelligence-led operation.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/> in what was seen as a pre-emptive strike against DSEi related protests.<ref name="imc.7-9-01.1">'@', [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/09/10862.html?c=on#comments Tooley Street and Dentist Factory RAIDED!!!!], ''Indymedia UK'', 7 September 2001 (accessed 2 May 2016).</ref><br />
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The raids took place in the early morning of 7th September 2001.<ref name="imc.7-9-01.1"/> One activist who witnessed it noted that police had arrived in riot gear and hazard suits, with ambulances and helicopters present. Nearby Guy's Hospital was rumoured to have had an isolation ward on stand-by,<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/> as the Metropolitan Police had supposedly warned them anarchists were hoarding chemical weapons.<ref name="imc.7-9-01"/> There were several arrests.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/><br />
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Both venues saw deliberate extensive destruction by the police, including of props being prepared for DSEi protests.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/><ref name="imc.7-9-01">'Democracy my arse', [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/09/10865.html?c=on#comments Police raid squats and make 3 arrests], ''Indymedia UK'', 7 September 2001 (accessed 8 January 2017).</ref> Four people were arrested at Tooley Street on the orders of the police officer leading the raid for conspiracy to cause violent disorder, which he justified on the bottles found there.<ref name="imc.7-9-01c">'bulu warrior and lil'pixie ', what actually happened - commentary to article 'Police raid squats and make 3 arrests', ''Indymedia UK, 9 September 2001 (accessed 8 January 2017).</ref><br />
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Rod is known to have been present at the squats prior to the raids.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/><br />
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====Fiesta for Life Against Death====<br />
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On 11th September, the day of the opening of arms fair, there were numerous actions resulting in different groups of protestors converging on the ExCeL centre.<ref name="bagley">Roger Bagley, Arms protest besieges dealers in death, ''Morning Star'', 12 September 2001 (accessed via Nexis).</ref> Military rapid response units, Ministry of Defence Police speedboats and helicopters were all deployed.<ref>Police and Army on Docklands anarchist alert, ''The Evening Standard'', 11 September 2001 (accessed via Nexis).</ref><br />
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The march from Canning Street was the focus of much of the police's attention, effectively kettled by 500 riot police, including a number from the WOMBLES.<ref name="rosser.11-9-01"/> This sparked clashes when the police sought to force the crowd into a designated protest area.<ref>Helen Studd, Demonstrators attack police at arms fair protest, ''The Times'', 12 September 2001 (accessed via Nexis).</ref>.<br />
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The WOMBLES, aware of potential police violence and disruption of what was intended to be a peaceful protest, had encouraged people to pad up against truncheons.<ref>'w@', [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/09/10581.html?c=on DSEi - Get involved!!], ''Indymedia UK'', 2 September 2001 (accessed 20 July 2016).</ref> They also constructed an inflatable shield wall to act as a defence against police batons for those protestors seeking to prevent the arms fair going ahead at the ExCeL centre. This was made in a closed meeting, where Rod was present.<ref name="Charlie.2-11-16"/><br />
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On the day, the WOMBLES would arrive travel by train to Canning Town Station where the march was leaving from. Meanwhile, the shield wall would come in a van hired and driven by Rod.<ref name="Charlie.2-11-16"/> On its way to Canning Town, the van was stopped by police, supposedly on the grounds they had seen something weird that made them suspicious.<ref name="imc.1"/> This was recalled by one person as him apparently driving around a roundabout twice, possibly as in hindsight, he had not been stopped the first time round; Rod's excuse was that had missed the exit.<ref name="Fred.4-11-16">Undercover Research Group: interview with 'Fred', a London-based activist, 4 November 2016.</ref> As a result, Rod and his passenger were arrested, and the equipment seized by police. According to one of the WOMBLES involved on the day, the loss of the shield wall Rod was bringing impacted heavily group's action though they continued with the attempt.<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/> He turned up to the next meeting of the WOMBLES, claiming to have spent all day in the cells, talking about the experience.<ref name="Charlie.2-11-16"/><br />
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Rod also appears to have presented himself as being a key organiser for the action and helped directs people at a meeting point at Kings Cross earlier in the day.<ref name="imc.1"/> This is not confirmed.<br />
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He would also tell people in Nottingham that he had been arrested for transporting materials belonging to the WOMBLES, which added to his credibility.<ref name="mp.i.9Aug2015"/><br />
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===Radical Dairy &amp; WOMBLES 7 case, 2002===<br />
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[[Image:Radical-dairy.jpg|thumb|Radical Dairy squat, Stoke Newington, 2002.<ref>Steven Johns, [https://libcom.org/library/the-anarchist-youth-network-ayn-personal-recollections-2002-2004 The Anarchist Youth Network (AYN), personal recollections, 2002-2004], ''Libcom.org'', 14 January 2017 (accessed 1 June 2017).</ref>]]<br />
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Rod is known to have visited and stayed over a couple of times at the 'Radical Dairy' - a squatted social centre on Kynaston Road, Stoke Newington.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/><ref name="ps.24-7-16"/><ref name="Charlie.2-11-16"/> The Radical Dairy was one of the first social centres in the UK built on the Italian model, which had inspired activists connected to Reclaim the Streets and WOMBLES who had been to both the 2000 Genoa protests and the March 2001 People's Global Action meeting in Milan. Founded in January 2002, it lasted for 13 months until February 2003, with a strong presence in the local community as well as being an activist hub for the area.<ref>[http://radical-dairy.tripod.com/ Radical Dairy] (Tripod website), 2003 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref><ref>[https://socialcentrestories.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/occupied-london-the-london-social-centre-movement/ Occupied London. The London Social Centre movement], ''Social Centres Stories'' (Wordpress site), 29 April 2008 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref> <br />
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The Radical Diary was a place where the defence campaign for the WOMBLES 7 case would meet to discuss strategy. This case emerged from an incident where a number of WOMBLES were attacked and arrested by police on 31 October 2001, after they had left a demonstration against a visit by Henry Kissinger.<ref name="miller">Russell Miller, [http://www.ainfos.ca/03/apr/ainfos00319.html WOMBLES 7: British State 2 - Beating the Spooks in Court], ''A-Infos News Service''</ref><ref name="nadir.1">[https://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/ourmayday/wombletrial.html W.O.M.B.L.E.S. Trial], ''Nadir.org'', 2002 (accessed 20 October 2016).</ref> Rod is not thought to have been present on the night, though as yet it has not been ascertained if Rod attended any of the defendant meetings or legal discussions that took place around the case at the venue.<ref>Undercover Research Group: a number of interviewees recalled Rod attending the venue, but due to the passage of time were unable to be certain which meetings he was at.</ref> At the time there was a concern within the WOMBLES that material relating to the defence campaign was being leaked to the police.<ref name="ps.24-7-16"/><br />
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During its existence the Radical Dairy was hassled by the police, including Forward Intelligence Teams photographing people attending a benefit gig in April 2002,<ref>LondonSCN, [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/04/26935.html?c=on#c27389 Radical Dairy Social Centre intimidated by police!!], ''Indymedia UK'', 5 April 2002 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref> and subsequently raided it on 12th April in an attempt to disrupt the space (computers seized, electricity cut off).<ref>[http://www.eco-action.org/infoshops/news.html#Radical_Dairy_Raided Radical Dairy Raided], Infoshops Network News, 12 April 2002 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref> An account of the raid noted:<ref>LondonSCN, [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/04/27579.html Police raid Radical Dairy Social Centre], ''Indymedia UK'', 12 April 2002 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref><br />
:: The police also read out a statement saying that because a Mayday leaflet was displayed in the window of the Social Centre that it proved that the building was used as "part of the infrastructure to Mayday".<br />
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A number of campaigners associated with the Radical Dairy noted that it was almost certainly bugged by police, though it had a deliberate open-door policy which meant it was easy for people off the street to come in. It also had a phone line in the name of 'Emma Goldman', which despite never owing loads of money was not cut off until the day before the raid.<ref name="Charlie.2-11-16"/><ref name="Fred.4-11-16"/><ref name="s.e.31-1-17"/> The police raid of 12 April was once again headed by DCS Bob Randall<ref name="miller"/> - who by that stage had been nicked-named 'Randall the Vandal' by WOMBLES for the number of times he had trashed their venues.<ref name="s.e.31-1-17"/><br />
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[[Image:Womble mayday solidarity protest 2002.jpg|thumb|Protestors outside Horseferry Magistrates during the WOMBLES 7 trial, 2002.]]<br />
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Support for the WOMBLES 7 was a theme at the 2002 MayDay protests,<ref>'imc', [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/04/29327.html Mayday 2002 - Breaking News], ''Indymedia UK'' 27 April 2002 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref><ref>[http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news351.htm London Calling], ''SchNEWS'', Issue 351, 26 April 2002 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref> and 200 people demonstrated outside the Horseferry Road Magistrates Court on the day. At trial, the defendants were constantly followed by Forward Intelligence Teams even inside the court, the latter only ceasing when the defendants threatened to walk out of the hearing unless the FIT intimidation stopped. Three were acquitted before the end of the case; in the end two were fined one for criminal damage and one for threatening behaviour, having made admissions in their police interviews.<ref name="miller"/><br />
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===MayDay 2002===<br />
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[[Image:Wombles(2002).jpg|W.O.M.B.L.E.S. in 2002.]]<br />
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As in the previous year, the WOMBLES were active in preparations for the 2002 MayDay, which was given the working title "MayDay in Mayfair". Preparations began as early as December 2002 for what was planned to be a week-long set of events, the 'Festival of Alternatives'.<ref>'London Mayday', [https://indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/12/17630.html?c=on Second Mayday 2002 planning meeting], ''UK Indymedia'', 3 December 2001 (accessed 25 January 2017).</ref> The trade unions working with Globalise Resistance held their traditional march and speeches. However, in response to the heavy handling policing of previous years, anarchist / anti-globalisation groups took a more decentralised approach, planning a number of different actions and multiple meet-up points through-out the day rather than one single event.<ref>[http://www.urban75.com/Action/mayday02.html Mayday Mass Action 2002 - Mayday in Mayfair], ''Allsorts mailing list'' (via Urban75.net), 2002 (accessed 25 January 2017).</ref><ref>The main website for the Mayday in Mayfair / Festival for Alternatives, OurMayday.org.uk, is accessible through [https://web.archive.org/web/20020601074524/http://ourmayday.org.uk/ Archive.org].</ref><br />
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As with the previous years, the mainstream press in the run up to and on the day focused heavily on the WOMBLES, though they did not feature in much of the literature distributed for the day.<ref>Undercover Research Group: search of mainstream media and alternative media sites for the day, 21 July 2016.</ref> Likewise, there was a large police operation involving 5,000 officers under the command of AC [[Michael Todd]].<ref>Jamie Wilson, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/may/01/mayday.world 5,000 police on duty to fend off MayDay chaos], ''The Guardian'', 1 May 2002 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref> In the press, Commissioner John Stevens painted a picture of protestors seeking a 're-match' as the police had won the previous year with their indiscriminating kettling tactics.<ref>Nick Hopkins, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/apr/19/mayday.world Hard core of protesters looking for MayDay 'rematch', Met suggests], ''The Guardian'', 19 April 2002 (accessed 25 January 2017).</ref><br />
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On the day, multiple events took place, particularly bicycle critical masses in the morning, and several disparate marches during the day. Several thousand people turned up to participate. Though scuffles broke out in places, the atmosphere was generally good-natured. There was a general heavy police presence at these events, which included preventing different protests joining the main trade union march, and penning in the Sex Workers march in Soho at the end of the day.<ref name="imc.timeline.2002"/><ref>Legal Defence and Monitoring Group, [https://indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/05/29897.html?c=on#comments MAY DAY – THE POLICE SCORE ANOTHER OWN GOAL], ''Indymedia UK'', 2 May 2002 (accessed 25 January 2017).</ref> In the run up and on the day, Todd continued to push the message of a 'hardcore of violent protesters that will be using guerilla tactics to evade police and cause mass destruction' in media during the day.<ref>'Indykid', [https://indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/05/29749.html Summary Of early Morning Television News MayDay coverage], ''Indymedia UK'', 1 May 2002 (accessed 25 January 2017).</ref><br />
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As the WOMBLES 7 were up in court, there was a solidarity protest outside Horseferry Magistrates where they were standing trial. This was entitled 'Breakfast Against Routine Fit-ups' (see above). In the afternoon, was the 'Carnibal', a mass football down Oxford Street.<ref name="imc.timeline.2002">imc, [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/05/29763.html?c=on MayDay2002 Time Line], ''Indymedia UK'', 1 May 2002 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030515064336fw_/http://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/ourmayday/footie.html Carnibal], OurMayday.org.uk, 2002 (accessed through Archive.org).</ref> As well as Mayday itself, the week saw multiple other events and protests.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020505073248fw_/http://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/ourmayday/timetable.html Festival of Alternatives: Timetable], OurMayday.org.uk, 2002 (accessed through Archive.org). See also [https://web.archive.org/web/20020523170600fw_/http://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/ourmayday/events.html Festival of Alternatives: Events], OurMayday.org.uk, 2002 (accessed through Archive.org).</ref><br />
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Rod is known to have been at different protests during the MayDay itself,<ref name="r.p.16June2016">Undercover Research Group: interview with Rose (alias), an London based activist who knew Rod Richardson, 16 June 2016.</ref> and is confirmed as having been at the 'Carnibal' protest.<ref name="Charlie.2-11-16"/> He was very probably present for some of the WOMBLES 7 trial.<ref name="Charlie.4-2-17"/><br />
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===Anti-war protests: Disobedience Against War, 2002-2003===<br />
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Rod would attend a number of anti-war demos through-out 2002 and 2003, in particular those organised under the banner of Disobedience Against War.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/> This group was formed out of people active in groups such as Reclaim the Streets, the WOMBLES, Anarchist Youth Network and West London Anarchists and Radicals, and formed in late 2002.<ref>'disobedience', [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/11/46192.html Disobedience against War, direct @ction meeting 12/11/02], ''Indymedia UK'', 11 November 2002 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref> Rod was at the pre-action meetings for this some of these protests, including for ones at RAF Fairford.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/><br />
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RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire was where US bombers took off from there for bombing raids in Iraq. As such, it became the focus of a sustained campaign that provided an alternative to the main Stop The War Coalition events.<ref>[https://libcom.org/aufheben/aufheben-12-2004/a-phenomenal-anti-war-movement A phenomenal anti-war movement], ''Aufheben'', Issue 12, 2004 (accessed via Libcom.org, 24 July 2016).</ref> These protests included 'weapons inspection' actions on 31st October<ref>Gloucestershire Weapons Inspectors, [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/11/45127.html Weapons Inspectors denied access to USAF Fairford], ''Indymedia UK'', 1 November 2002 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref> and 14 December<ref>Bristol Stop The War, [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/11/45127.html Mass Weapons Inspection Of USAF Fairford: Sat 14th Dec], ''Indymedia UK'', 1 November 2002 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref> 2002. The WOMBLES attended a peaceful protest at the site in February 2003.<ref name="fca.judgement"/> Rod is said to have been present at least one of these early protests.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/><br />
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====Fairford Coach case, 2003====<br />
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[[Image:Fairford coach being escorted back to London (2003).jpg|thumb|One of the 'Fairford Coaches' being escorted back to London by police, 2003.<ref name="fca.web"/> ]]<br />
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A group calling itself the Gloucestershire Weapons Inspectors, who had been behind previous protests at Fairford, had called for large anti-war protest there for 23rd March 2003. The WOMBLES were among those advertising and mobilising for it.<ref name="fca.judgement"/> Three coach loads of anti-war protestors travelling from London to Fairford were stopped by police, apparently due to intelligence received. The occupants were searched and the coaches forced to return to London under police escort. Close to those organising the coaches was undercover [[Jason_Bishop_(alias)|Jason Bishop]].<ref name="netpol"/> It is now been identified that Rod was also on one of these coaches.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/><ref>Video footage of the police stop and search can be found at: Zoe Young, [https://vimeo.com/37034882 'On the Buses'], ''Vimeo'', 2012 video of material recorded in 2003 (accessed 24 July 2016).</ref> 'Yvette', stated that on the day, he had texted Nottingham hunt sabs, stating that he 'was being kidnapped by the police'.<ref name="Yvette">Undercover Research Group: interview with 'Yvette', Nottingham activist close to Rod, 16 August 2016.</ref><br />
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[[Kevin Lambert]], then a Chief Superintendent with Gloucestershire Police noted in his log for the day:<ref name="fca.judgement">Lord Justice Bingham & ors, [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200607/ldjudgmt/jd131206/lapor-1.htm Judgments - R (on the application of Laporte) (FC) (Original Appellant and Cross-respondent) v. Chief Constable of Gloucestershire (Original Respondent and Cross-appellant)], ''House of Lords'', [2006] UKHL 55, 13 November 2006.</ref><br />
:: Based on intelligence received it is understood that 3 coaches and a van are en route from LONDON carrying items and equipment to disrupt the protest today and gain entry to the air base. The protestors are the 'Wombles'. A Section 60 is in place and I have asked for an objective to be made for [senior officers] in charge of the two PSU's on intercept duties to intercept the coaches and van to search and identify any items that may be used. Items on the vehicles are to be seized if they are offending articles and if that is the case, the coaches and van are to be turned around and sent back towards the Metropolitan area. The Metropolitan Police will be asked to pick them up at the M25. They are not to be arrested to prevent a breach of the peace at that particular time, if that is the only offence apparent, as I do not consider there to be an imminent breach of the peace. However they are to be warned if articles are found on the coaches and they arrive at FAIRFORD then I will consider them to be here intent on causing disruption and a breach of the peace and they may find themselves arrested.<br />
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A list of groups on the coaches from those on it included:<ref name="fca.web"/><br />
:: Quakers - Pacifists - Amnesty International - CND - Volunteers from Indymedia UK - Voices in the Wilderness UK - ARROW - War Resisters International - Women In Black - Stop the War Coalition - Americans Against War - WOMBLES - September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows - The d10 Group - ISM London - Rhythms of Resistance<br />
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Later justifying his actions, Lambert stated:<br />
:: My decision not to allow the coaches to proceed to Fairford to protest was based upon:<br>(i) The history of the Wombles and Disobedience Action Groups - I was satisfied that hardcore members were on the coaches.<br>(ii) The intelligence sources leading up to, and on the 22nd March 2003.<br>(iii) The articles seized from passengers on the coach, and those found in communal areas abandoned …<br>I considered that upon arrival at RAF Fairford a breach of the peace would have occurred. Therefore, had the coaches been permitted to continue to RAF Fairford the protesters on the coaches would have been arrested upon arrival at RAF Fairford, a breach of the peace then being 'imminent' …<br>I therefore concluded that I faced a choice of either allowing the coaches to proceed and managing a Breach of the Peace at RAF Fairford, arresting the occupants of the coaches in order to prevent a Breach of the Peace, or turning the coaches around and escorting them back away from the area ...<br>I could not discount the potential risk that some peaceful protesters were caught up in the decision not to allow coaches to proceed, but it was not possible to be certain who had brought the articles onto the coach and who were intent on direct action …"<br />
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The prevention of the coaches going to Fairford was the subject of a major legal challenge by Fairford Coach Action.<ref name="fca.web">Fairford Coach Action, [http://www.fairfordcoachaction.org.uk/ Fairford Coach Action], campaign website, undated (accessed 24 July 2016).</ref> judgement being handed down by the House of Lords in December 2006. It found that the actions of the police had been unlawful and disproportionate, focusing as it did on the offence of breach of the peace. It was considered a landmark decision at the time.<ref>IMC UK Features, [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358276.html Victory For Fairford Coach Campaigners], ''Indymedia UK'', 13 December 2006 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref> Related court cases continued until 2013, again resulting in victory for the protestors.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-21382889 RAF Fairford protesters win legal battle against police], ''BBC News Online'', 8 February 2013 (accessed 24 July 2016).</ref><br />
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At no point was it revealed to the court that there had been two undercover police officers present on the coaches, including one with one of the very groups complained of by Kevin Lambert. In 2016, this lead to lawyers claiming the Metropolitan Police had lied to judges in the case<ref>Rob Evans, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/21/police-concealed-role-undercover-officers-case-from-judges Police accused of concealing role of undercover officers from judges], ''The Guardian'', 21 March 2016 (accessed 24 July 2016).</ref> Writing on behalf of one of the Fairford Coach protestors, Zoe Young, lawyers asked the Undercover Policing Inquiry 'to examine the degree to which Mr Richardson may have acted as agent provocateur, the accuracy of police disclosure during the judicial process and what extent his involvement was hidden from the courts'.<ref name="si.ch4">Simon Israel, [http://blogs.channel4.com/simon-israel-home-affairs/exclusive-lawyers-met-lied-judges-secret-policing/1534 Exclusive: lawyers claim Met lied to judges over secret policing], ''Channel 4 News'', 21 March 2016 (accessed 21 July 2016).</ref> Zoe told ''Channel 4'' that: <ref name="si.ch4"/><br />
:: We were there to express our desire for peace around the world, we were against war and we had secret police on our buses. Police concealed that from us and then they concealed the fact that they had police on the buses with us throughout the 10-year judicial process that ensued. They just need to come clean now – this is about reputation management and it needs to be about the truth.<br />
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At the time in 2016, the police response was to maintain their position of [[neither confirm nor deny]].<br />
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===International===<br />
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[[Image:Rod Richardson at Genoa (2001).jpg|thumb|Rod Richardson at second day of Genoa G8 protests, 2001.<ref name="laura.1"/>]]<br />
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Rod is known to have attended international anti-globalisation protests alongside people he knew from the WOMBLES. Events he can be attested at include:<ref name="imc.1"/><br />
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* '''June 2001, Gothenburg: European Union Summit'''.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/> <br />
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* '''July 2001, Genoa: G8 Summit'''.<br />
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* '''Summer 2002, Leiden, PGA meeting'''. The WOMBLES were an 'infopoint' for the international alter-globalisation PGA network.<ref>[https://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/pga_leaflet_a5.pdf Global Resistance 2005: A call to action (leaflet)], ''London Action Resource Centre'', 2005 (accessed 21 July 2016 via Nadir.org).</ref><br />
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* '''November 2002, Prague: NATO Summit'''.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/><ref name="Charlie.4-2-17"/><br />
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* '''June 2003, Evian: G8 Summit'''.<ref name="imc.1"/><br />
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===Other London activities with the WOMBLES===<br />
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It is thought that Rod attend a WOMBLES related squat on Old Street,<ref name="r.p.16June2016"/> and it is highly likely would have he attended various meeting held at the Freedom Bookshop in Whitechapel.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/> In particular, he attended meetings at The Exchange on Sebbon Street, Islington in the run-up to the mobilisation for Genoa in 2001.<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/> Several activists noted that though the WOMBLES held weekly public meetings, Rod was not a regular at meetings, but tended to come more when there was a build up to a big action, though that was true of others campaigners as well.<ref name="s.e.12-12-16"/><ref name="Charlie.2-11-16"/>, but then was always useful.<ref name="Charlie.2-11-16">Undercover Research Group: interview with Charlie, London based activist, 2 November 2016.</ref> Another campaigner also noted that though Rod attended quite a few meetings he tended to dip in and out of things.<ref name="alex.i.18-4-16"/> When he attended a meeting he would generally accompany people to the pub afterwards.<ref name="s.e.31-1-17"/><br />
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His involvement or otherwise in a number of WOMBLES events in 2001 remains to be determined; these include:<ref name="womble.chron"/><br />
* 10 Jan 2001: 10th anniversary of the bombing of Iraq - action in Parliament Square where WOMBLES defend protestors from police attack.<br />
* 11 March 2001: occupation of the NikeTown shop on Oxford Street in solidarity with Mexico striking workers.<br />
* 30 September: Labour Party Conference in Brighton. Five WOMBLES arrested for wearing white overalls.<br />
* 7 October: a series of actions against the bombing of Afghanistan.<br />
* 13 October: anti-war protest in London.<br />
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In January 2002 the WOMBLES initiated a series of new meetings across London including a revival of the London Underground forum, this time at the London Action Resource Centre in Whitechapel, and campaign-related meetings and training workshops which were hosted at The Exchange.<ref>wombles, [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/01/20370.html W.O.M.B.L.E.S. Communique: new meetings], ''Indymedia UK'', 15 January 2002 (accessed 24 July 2016).</ref> Though unconfirmed, it is thought that Rod attended some of these events.<br />
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Unlike other undercover police, Rod did not demonstrate much interest in London anti-fascist groups.<ref name="ps.24-7-16"/><br />
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==References==<br />
<references/></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=HN18&diff=257374HN182020-12-18T15:48:39Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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''HN18'' is the cipher given to a former undercover officer with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]], deployed in ' the 'last period of existence' of the unit into at least two group and reported on others.<ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018"/>. In December 2018, it was revealed their cover name was Robert "Rob" Harrison, deployed 2004-2007 into International Solidarity Movement (London branch), State of Emergency Collective, No Borders and Globalise Resistance.<ref name="email.ucpi.11Dec2018">Email to core participants, '20181211-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing _HN18', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> He also appears to have targeted other groups such as the rampARTS squat in east London.<ref name="AW.article.13Dec2018">Asa Winstanley, [https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/police-spy-infiltrated-palestine-activists Police spy infiltrated Palestine activists], ''The Electronic Intifada'', 13 December 2018 (accessed 17 December 2018).</ref><br />
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* ''For details of the N-numbers cipher system see the [[N officers]] page.''<br />
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==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
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* 11 May 2018: Inquiry directed that anonymity applications for HN18 were to be filed by 31 May 2018 for both the MPS legal team and the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref><br />
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* 29 May 2019: MPS make application to restrict real name of HN18.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-HN18_open_application_MPS.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN18], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 29 May 2018 (released 21 February 2019 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref><br />
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* 21 June 2018: announced that the Chair of the Inquiry, John Mitting was 'minded to' restrict the real name of HN4 but refuse the application over the cover name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-PN-SDS-minded-to-11.pdf Press notice - 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref> However, he gave HN18 an opportunity to provide notification by 26 June 2018 if they wished a closed hearing in respect of their application, with skeleton argument setting out objects to be provided by 29 June 2018.<ref name="upci.directions.21June 2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-SDS_anonymity_direction_to_accompany_Minded_to_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Directions following publication of 'Minded to' note 11], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><ref name="cti.explan.note.21June2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-11.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 9 and Ruling 8 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad: Update as at 21 June 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><br />
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In his 'minded to' note, Mitting wrote:<ref name="ucpi.minded-to11.21June2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621-SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_11.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 11], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 June 2018.</ref><br />
:: The risk to the safety of HN18 posed by members of the targeted groups is negligible and the risk of interference by them in family and private life is low. The deployments are of interest to the Inquiry, as is the evidence which HN18 can give about the management and closing down of the Special Demonstration Squad.<br />
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:: In the opinion of Prof Fox, who reported on the condition of HN18 on 12 March 2018, HN18 suffers from two moderately severe mental health conditions, which would be exacerbated by publication of the real or cover name. I accept that, if the real name were to be published, there is some risk of interference in the right of HN18 to respect for private and family life and of some impact on HN18's mental health. Publication of the real name is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference... However, for reasons which are explained in the closed note which accompanies these reasons, I am unconvinced that a restriction order in respect of the cover name of HN18 would have a material impact on mental health or well-being. Further, the giving of evidence about the deployments would be likely to lead members of targeted groups to identify HN18's cover name for themselves. A restriction order in respect of the cover name would, therefore, probably serve no useful purpose.<br />
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* 30 July 2018: Mitting refuses to restrict cover name and remains minded to restrict real name.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180730_SDS_anonymity_Minded-to_12_and_Ruling_10.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref><br />
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* 13 September 2018: "The officer was permitted an opportunity to respond to the Chairman's Minded To decision to restrict real name but to refuse to restrict cover name but the Chairman maintained his view and in a final ruling refused to restrict cover name but remains minded to restrict real name. Open material will be published and an opportunity provided for responding."<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
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* 11 December 2018: cover-name and target groups revealed by the Inquiry.<ref name="email.ucpi.11Dec2018"/><br />
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* 21 February 2019: Inquiry directs that submissions regarding the restriction order over the real name are to be made by 21 March 2019.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-Directions_for_SDS_HN18_HN66_HN122_HN299_342_and_HN344.pdf Directions for SDS HN18 HN66 HN122 HN299 342 and HN344], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 February 2019 (accessed 7 April 2019).</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=N_officers_3&diff=257369N officers 32020-12-06T16:24:39Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=N Officers list|Description=A list of N &amp; HN cyphers used to designate individual officers in the Inquiry and by Operation Herne (Part 3)}}<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* For a general introduction into the cypher system, see [[N_officers| N Officers (main page)]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers <100, see [[N_officers_1|N officers part 1]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 100 - 299, see [[N_officers_2|N officers part 2]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 400 and higher, see [[N_officers_4|N officers part 4]].<br />
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* ''Updated 3 August 2018''<br />
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==N series officers part 3 (300-399)==<br />
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{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name (italics for cover name only)<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim / 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. Initially, his cover surname had not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Deceased. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190924-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN300_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 24 September 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover <br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety. Real and cover names have been restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181108_Ruling_13_final.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Demonstration Squad and Special Duties Squad Ruling 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 November 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN306<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN307<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN308<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN311<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity application to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN314<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management - DCI in last period of unit.<br />
| 11 May, directed any application for anonymity to be filed by 31 May 2018.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Role as DCI for the SDS and involvement in closure of the unit is given in the risk assessement of [[HN30]].<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018">Adrian Baxter, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/11-20180831-HN30-Gisted_Risk_Assessment.pdf N30 - Risk Assessment (gisted)], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 28 August 2018 (accessed 2 October 2018, via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| N315<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| Witness Protection Unit officer assigned by John Grieve to Lawrence family following wrongful publication of witness details in a Macpherson Report appendix; said they were 'never approached by any member of the MPS or asked for personal information or rumour surrounding the Stephen Lawrence family' (Herne II, 21.2.4-5).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN318<br />
| Ray Wilson<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Deceased. No restriction order applications made so real name to be published in due course.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969. Real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323<br />
| [[Helen Crampton]]<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN325<br />
| [[Conrad Dixon]]<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No application made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''Dave Fisher''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN328<br />
| [[Joan Hillier]]<br />
| SDS back office / management <br />
| No restriction order application made and real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).</ref><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN332]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS manager<br />
| Held SDS managerial role in the 1970s. Real name will be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| Michael Tyrell, ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 to 1972 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in True Spies under the pseudonym 'Dan'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 - 1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342 / 299<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deployed 1971 - 1976 into International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League and the Troops Out Movement.<ref name="email.ucpi.18Dec2018">Email to core participants, '20181218-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN342', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
13 Sept 2018, Mitting indicated he was minded to restrict the real name on health grounds, the consideration of his application being delayed due to an operation for a serious condition. The Chair wrote:<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Minded-to-13-HN-342-299.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
:HN 299 / 342 is a septuagenarian and lives alone in a small community. He was deployed against three groups of his own selection between 1971 and 1975. There is nothing to indicate that his deployment was anything other than unremarkable. His cover name will be published, as will the names of the groups. In the unlikely event that any member of any of the groups can remember him, publication of his cover name, not of his real name, is what is required to prompt information or evidence from them. Publication of his real name would risk unwelcome media attention and the attention of those who may be ill disposed towards him within his small community. It would not assist fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry. <br />
<br />
Inquiry history: Extension sought to deal with in a future tranche.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> 11 May 2018, directed that any application for anonymity order to be filed as soon as reasonably practical after that date after the end of May.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> July 2018: application delayed.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref> Following publication of the cover name, an open application in relation to the real name will be released.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
21 February 2019: Inquiry directs that submissions regarding the resetriction order over the real name are to be made by 21 March 2019.<ref name="mitting.direction.21Feb19">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-Directions_for_SDS_HN18_HN66_HN122_HN299_342_and_HN344.pdf Directions for SDS HN18 HN66 HN122 HN299 342 and HN344], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 February 2019 (accessed 7 April 2019).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-HN299_342_open_application.pdf MPS open application to restrict real name] <br />
<br />
17 Apr 2019: ruling that real name would be restricted.<ref name="mitting.r15.17Apr2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190417-sds_anonymity_applications-ruling_15.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 15], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 Apr 2019.</ref> The Restriction order was made public on 23 October 2020.<ref>Email to core participants, ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2020.</ref><ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200114-restriction_order-HN299_342.pdf Restriction Order - HN299/342], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 April 2019 (published on ucpi.org.uk 23 October 2020).</ref><br />
<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into the Anti-Internment League and the Northern Minorities Defence League.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> It is unclear if he was an undercover or simply management.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan|Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] 1971. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Womens Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN350<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office<br />
| No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| ''[[Vince Miller (alias)|Vince Miller]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN358<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Apr 2018: no application made<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N367<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| SO15 / CTC from 2006, Det. Sgt; point of contact for ex-SDS officers. Was contacted by N81 in this capacity but was accused of having 'an agenda to belittle SDS' (Ellison, 253).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
Nov 2017: further information required before Inquiry can proceed with the application.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: 'is EN52. Further information is required before the Inquiry can progress this application. This application will be moved to a future tranche'.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN371<br />
| [[Phil Saunders]]<br />
| SDS management<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
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* [[N_officers_1|Numbers <100]]<br />
* [[N_officers_2|Numbers 100-299]]<br />
* [[N_officers_4|Numbers 400 and higher]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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[[Category: UndercoverResearch]] [[Category: Undercover Public Inquiry]]</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=HN349&diff=257368HN3492020-12-03T17:06:16Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name='HN349'|Alias=unknown|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=for about a year in early 1970s|Targets=anarchist groups}}<br />
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'''HN349''' is the cipher given to a former undercover officer with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]]. They were deployed for about a year in the early 1970s against anarchists groups in an unsuccessful operation.<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/> The [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] has ruled that the officer's real and cover names will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
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Unless otherwise indicated, the following material is taken from HN349's witness statement.<ref name="HN349.ws">'HN349', [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20190626-First-Witness-Statement-of-HN349.pdf Witness Statement], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 26 June 2019 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk 19 Nov 2020 as MPS-0740356).</ref><br />
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* For the N cipher system see [[N officers]] page.<br />
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==Pre-SDS career==<br />
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Born in the 1940s, HN349 joined the Metropolitan Police in the 1960s, first as a uniformed and then transferred to Special Branch. <br />
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==Special Demonstration Squad==<br />
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===Joining and training / guidance===<br />
<br />
HN349 joined the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) - then known as the Special Operations Squad<ref>The name of the Special Demonstration Squad changed over time including being also known as the Special Duties Squad and Special Operations Squad. We will use Special Demonstration Squad, by which it is best known.</ref> - in early 1970s, when they were still 'relatively new' to Special Branch. They had not heard of the squad until approached. There was no formal joining process. They told their risk assessor:<ref name="hn349.ra.6Apr2018">Adrian Baxter, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180406-HN349-Gisted_Risk_Assessment.pdf N349 - Risk Assessment (gisted)], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 6 April 2018, published 8 May 2018 via ucpi.org.uk.</ref><br />
:: [H]N349 had not heard of the SDS before being approached regarding a role within the unit. [H]N349 was initially approached by a [Detective Sergeant] and introduced to another SOS officer who had been a UCO. N349 does not recall any formal interview or any psychometric testing. [H]N349 was informed by the SOS officer that the role was an undercover role and that the work could be dangerous. N349 was also told he would be cut off from the rest of the MPS. <br />
<br />
In their witness statement, HN349 says that at that meeting with the other undercover they were told:<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
::that the role would involve going undercover, that I would be away from the rest of the Metropolitan Police and that the work could be dangerous.<br />
<br />
However, HN349 did write that he was probably being evaluated by other officers for suitability in the role of undercover, and that he must have satisfied them as otherwise they would not have sent him into the field.<br />
<br />
They spent time in the back office before being deployed, becoming familiar with the workings of the SDS and life undercover:<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
:: As far as I recall, there was no formal training when I joined the SDS. I worked in the back office and learnt from observing and interacting with other UCOs. Initially we would get exposure by reading field reports sent in by UCOs and conducting research into points arising from these reports. I think that after a few weeks in the back office, I was taken to the SDS undercover flat to meet the deployed UCOs. I think I went to the flat on at least two or three occasions before being deployed and would have picked up more information about undercover work during these meetings.<br />
<br />
In general, he told his risk assessor, that he was expected to play it by ear.<ref name="hn349.ra.6Apr2018"/><br />
<br />
He did not recall being given advice on instigating or partaking in crime, sexual relationships or what to do if brought before the court or if they obtained legally privileged information, noting:<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
:: I think that the SDS managers operated on more of a reactive basis. So if any of these issues had arisen, they would have dealt with them immediately but I do not believe that we were given instructions about them in advance.<br />
<br />
:: In relation to friendships and relationships while deployed, we would all have known that we should not have sexual relationships while deployed. This was common sense. We were obviously expected to get to know our targets but only as far as was necessary to maintain our cover and achieve our objectives. I would, for example, have thought it was acceptable to go for a drink or perhaps an afternoon in the park with some activists but I would not have become more involved than that. I do not think we were ever sat down by managers and told about the limits of acceptable behaviour but it is over 50 years ago now so it is possible that I just cannot recall this. I am pretty certain that the issue of sexual relationships with activists never came up during my time on the SDS.<br />
<br />
===Creation of cover / legend===<br />
<br />
HN349 used a cover name but was not given instructions on how to to chose it. He did not use aspects of an existing person's identity or take one from a deceased child. The fake identity was not very developed; had they been asked he would have replied he was an out of work van driver. He did not have a cover employer and 'the only document with my undercover name on it was my rent book' which was for his cover accommodation.<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
:: As far as I am aware, I was deployed in the same way as my fellow UCOs but I cannot explain why my undercover identity appears to be less well developed than others. Perhaps I didn't feel the need to fully develop my back story as I felt I could play it by ear if asked questions when deployed but this never came up in the end as my deployment was not successful.<br />
<br />
The undercover changed their appearance by growing a beard and long hair, and wearing scruffy clothes. HN349 obtained a cover address by answering an advert in a newsagent. He used this accommodation as a mailing address but never slept there. However, he did not develop his back story to the same extent other undercover went to.<br />
<br />
===Deployment and target group (unnamed)===<br />
<br />
They were deployed for one year in the early 1970s:<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
:: I seem to recall that I was tasked with attending any demonstrations taking place in Central London, getting to know the regular activists and reporting back. I was not tasked initially with trying to infiltrate any particular group or organisation. <br />
<br />
Elsewhere he wrote:<ref name="hn349.personal.statement.28Feb2018"/><br />
:: This would entail joining marches and demonstrations, being 'one of the crowd' and joining in. I was not tasked initially with trying to infiltrate any particular group or organisation, merely to get to know the regulars by sight and if I could become accepted, to pursue the issue.<br />
<br />
Again, from his witness statement:<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
::I also attended numerous meetings, predominantly left-wing oriented, again trying to become an accepted regular face. After some weeks I think I was tasked with trying to get involved with the various loose-knit anarchist activist groups which proliferated in London.<br />
<br />
HN349 was unable to get close enough to individuals to strike up relationships with them, and did not manage to infiltrate any of his target groups.<ref name="add.info.to.ra.gist.ucpi.16Apr2018"/> They noted:<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
:: I think the main reason for this was because they were highly suspicious of strangers. Since I was not able to gain the trust of the activists, I didn't manage to successfully infiltrate the group.<br />
<br />
Thus, during his time in the field he did not engage in sexual activity with members of his target groups or engage in criminal activity.<br />
<br />
Curiously there appears to be no documents relating to HN349's reporting, which he is also unsure of, saying:<br />
:: I would have provided verbal and written reports about general demonstrations that I<br />
continued to attend and my attempts to infiltrate my target group(s). I can only assume that these reports were not formally written up or have been destroyed over the years.<br />
<br />
===SDS safe house and meetings===<br />
<br />
HN349 gives considerable insight into the routine at the SDS safe house, then based at a West London address:<br />
:: Except on our day off and when we were covering demonstrations or meetings, all UCOs would go to the undercover flat in [West London] a daily basis. We would usually attend around lunchtime and we would then have general discussions about what was going on in the SDS and provide intelligence to each other. We would also carry out general admin tasks like preparing expenses claims and writing up any reports that we needed to submit.<br />
:: I would discuss anything and everything with my fellow UCOs during these meetings. I would certainly share details of my deployment with them as that was my life at the time and they would do likewise. We would exchange our experiences and offer each other advice. They were my colleagues so it was natural that we would have a general chat about our work and our personal lives. No topic of conversation would be off limits. <br />
:: SDS management would join the SDS meetings about twice per week. They would therefore observe or overhear the conversations that we had during the meetings that they attended. The conversations would be pretty similar when they were there but the meetings would obviously also involve the UCOs passing on intelligence to managers and raising any issues that they were facing. If and when necessary, the management would take an individual UCO to a separate room for a private discussion away from the group. This happened more frequently for officers who were involved in the more sensitive areas of work, discuss matters that could not be shared more widely.<br />
:: I passed information back to managers both verbally and in writing at SDS meetings and over the phone. Written information would be in the form of intelligence reports. I think mine were always hand-written but I do not have any clear memory of producing them. My recollection is that they were typed up in the back office. I would hand my reports over to managers when they attended the SDS meetings or I might pass a report to another UCO if they happened to be going back to the Yard for any reason. I occasionally went back to the Yard myself and may have taken reports then.<br />
:: I think the majority of information would have been written down as the managers could not be expected to remember information from a number of UCOs. We would also have given some information verbally during the meetings and over the phone, if necessary.<br />
:: If I was able to identify people present at the meetings that I attended then I would definitely have included this information in my reporting and if I could not identify them, I may have given a description. I cannot remember any particular individuals that I identified but I am sure I would have done this. The whole reason for being there was to gather intelligence about who was attending meetings so that we had a record of what these groups were up to. I would not have known which particular people were of relevance to Special Branch so I would just pass on all the information that I could. We were supposed to get as much information as we could and were not really told to filter it. This is how it worked for ordinary Special Branch officers as well.<br />
<br />
===Relationship with the Security Services===<br />
<br />
HN349 also spoke about the relationship between Special Branch and MI5:<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
:: If the security services had requested something, you provided it without asking questions. My understanding of the relationship between the security services and Special Branch is that the security services sought the assistance of Special Branch in gathering intelligence in areas for which the security services had national responsibility.<br />
<br />
They were also able to give insight as to the relationship between MI5 and the SDS:<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
:: I think that Special Branch and the SDS would try to accommodate any requests that related to areas that the security services had responsibility for. I believe that there were discussions between the Ch. Supt., DCI and DI in charge of the SDS and the security services about matters that the security services wished to gather information on and I imagine that would have influenced our tasking. However, that is not to say that the security services had overall control of our tasking, particularly within the SDS. My understanding is that the SDS was initially set up to deal with public disorder, and since this was very much a police matter, the Metropolitan Police would have had primary responsibility when it came to directing SDS officers to obtain information about public disorder. However, once the threats to public disorder reduced after the Vietnam protests ceased, the security services played a more significant role in directing the work of the SDS. Unsurprisingly I was not privy to the details but I know that senior managers within the SDS would meet with the security services regularly. It was also generally accepted by myself and fellow UCOs that the security services provided some of the funding for the SDS but I could not say with any certainty what gave us this impression.<br />
<br />
===Exit===<br />
<br />
HN349 left the field on realising it was not being a successful deployment:<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
:: My recollection is that approximately 9 months after being deployed, I came to the conclusion that my deployment was not proving to be successful as I had not properly infiltrated my target group. I felt that I was not achieving what I had set out to do. I met with my DCI and DI and told them how I felt and they agreed. It was then arranged for me to return to my usual appearance and spend a period of months in the back office at New Scotland Yard helping with the day-to-day administration of the SDS. I did not need to indicate to any activists that I was disappearing because I had not actually assimilated into any groups.<br />
<br />
They did not recall being debriefed on leaving the field. On being reintegrated into Special Branch, they noted there was little in the way of welfare support:<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
:: I do not recall being offered any advice or support following my deployment. The general practice was that you would get yourself looking smart again and then be sent away from the Yard for a period of time.<br />
<br />
===Chain of command===<br />
<br />
At the time, the SDS was headed by someone of Detective Chief Inspector rank; it sat within 'S Squad' which was headed by a Superintendent.<br />
<br />
==Other Special Branch work==<br />
<br />
===Knowledge of SDS in wider Special Branch===<br />
<br />
Shortly after he left the SDS, HN349 worked in another part of Special Branch which often handled intelligence gathered by SDS officers.<ref name="add.info.to.ra.gist.ucpi.16Apr2018">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180416-HN349-Additional_Info_from_Closed_Risk_Asst_to_be_read_with_Gisted_Risk_Asst.pdf Additional information to be read with gisted risk assessment for HN349], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 16 Apr 2018, published 8 May 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
HN349 provides a noteworthy account of how knowledge of the SDS existed in Special Branch and that use was made of it:<br />
:: I would have used SDS intelligence after leaving the SDS. In my role as an ordinary Special Branch officer I would have seen reports that were generated by the SDS. They would not have stated that the information came from an undercover officer but I would have realised this because of my time on the SDS. Any reports from the SDS that were relevant to particular Special Branch squads would have been disseminated to those squads for their use. Special Branch squads would also send requests for information to the SDS if they knew that a UCO was deployed into a particular area that they were interested in and might be able to gather helpful information. After a certain length of time in Special Branch, most officers were aware of the SDS and had an idea of the kind of groups that they had infiltrated. I suspect that I would have made requests for information from the SDS while working in the rest of Special Branch but I have no specific memory of this. That said, approaches to the SDS to request information would have been considered to be a last resort for general Special Branch officers so it would not have been something I did frequently.<br />
<br />
===Other reporting===<br />
Outside of his period undercover HN349 reported on other groups and individuals, and these reports appear to have been preserved, though not released by the Inquiry. Mention is made in the undercover's witness statement in relation to:<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
* Peter Hain at a public meeting<br />
::: I reported information about his attendance at a public meeting because he was a<br />
prominent activist at the time and it was our job to report anything and everything about the meetings we attended. We were sent to cover the meeting and gather as much intelligence as we could.<br />
* Research into a telephone number provided as contact for the organiser of a Chelsea Young Socialists march.<br />
::: I imagine that I have researched the number in order to try to further identify and trace the organiser of the march.<br />
* Details requested by MI5 in relation to leading Maoists<br />
::: I would not have known why the security services wanted [this information]. <br />
* Research into the registered owners of vehicles seen parked outside a Communist Federation of Britain meeting in order to provide information about who might have been attending.<br />
<br />
==On anonymity and family life==<br />
<br />
In their personal impact statement, HN349 says they signed the Official Secrets Act on a number of occasions, and stated: <ref name="hn349.personal.statement.28Feb2018">'HN349', [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180228-MPS_DL-HN349-Personal_Impact_Statement.pdf Personal Impact Statement (redacted)], 26 February 2018, published 8 May 2018 via upci.org.uk.</ref><br />
:: Whilst I do not recall any specific briefing on the subject of anonymity in relation to undercover work, it was just accepted by all that our anonymity was in perpetuity, beyond the grave even. <br />
<br />
He was married at the time, noting:<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
:: I do not recall anyone speaking to me about the impact of SDS work on my family life. The attitude at the time was that even our spouses could not be given details of the work we were doing but this was the case across Special Branch as well as the SDS. No managers spoke to my spouse before I joined the SDS.<br />
<br />
HN349's wife has made an impact statement, in which she noted that the deployment occurred when they had a baby, and she was 'left to fend for her myself and the baby most of the time. What little time my husband did spend at home was spent sleeping.' She also spoke about knowing little of his police work because of the 'need to know' principle.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180203-HN349-Wife-Impact_Statement_Amended_Redaction.pdf Impact statement of the wife of HN349], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 3 February 2018, published 8 May 2018 via ucpi.org.uk.</ref><br />
<br />
==The ''True Spies'' documentary==<br />
<br />
HN349 recalled that they were offered a chance to take part but declined:<ref name="HN349.ws"/><br />
:: We were all sent a letter from Roger Pearce giving us the option to take part and my recollection is that the letter inferred that there would be no repercussions if we wanted to participate but thankfully I decided not to.<br />
<br />
==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
<br />
* 20 February 2018: directed that any application for restriction orders to be submitted by the end of February 2018.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref><br />
<br />
* 26 February 2018: application to restrict real name only made by the Metropolitan Police.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180226-MPS-HN349-Open_Application.pdf Open application for a restriction order (anonymity) re: HN349], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 26 February 2018, published 8 May 2018 via ucpi.org.uk.</ref><br />
<br />
* 28 February 2018: the designated lawyers team make an application to restrict both real and cover name on the grounds that the deployment was ultimately unsuccessful and so serves no purpose to the Inquiry, and there was 'sufficient risk that disclosure of the cover name would lead to the real name and such a risk should not be taken, particularly when the same is disproportionate to the benefits where HN349's deployment is of historical / peripheral interest only'.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180228-MPD_DL-HN349-Open_Application-Final.pdf Application for restriction order (anonymity) in respect of HN349's cover name], ''Metropolitan Police Service (Designated Lawyers Team)'', 28 February 2018'', published 8 May 2018 via ucpi.org.uk.</ref><br />
<br />
* 22 March 2018: Mitting indicated he was minded to restrict real and cover name, writing:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 22 March 2018.</ref><br />
:: He is concerned that if he were to be identified, he and his family would be the subject of unwelcome media attention. These concerns are genuine and not irrational. He also has concerns for his safety and for that of his family which, although genuine, are almost certainly misplaced. There is a small risk that if his cover name were to be published, his real name could be identified. It is very unlikely that his deployment needs to be investigated at all to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. If it does, witness statement from him is all that is likely to be required. Publication of his real or cover name would interfere, to some extent, with his right to respect for private and family life. It would be neither proportionate nor justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention.<br />
<br />
* 15 May 2018: Mitting ruled that HN349's real and cover names will be kept restricted for the purposes of the Inquiry stating:<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref>:<br />
:: In this case, for the purpose of determining his application for a restriction order I have accepted that his account of his failed attempt to infiltrate anarchist groups by attending meetings is unlikely to be contradicted. It is not, as Ms Kaufmann puts it, "the police position". For the purpose of determining applications for restriction orders in respect of names, I must sometimes make a judgement about whether or not what I have been told is likely to be true. I cannot conduct a full inquiry into the facts before making that judgement. This is such a case.<br />
<br />
The inquiry has released other material relating to the anonymity application including material from the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180203-HN349-Wife-Impact_Statement_Amended_Redaction.pdf wife] and [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180406-HN349-Proposed_Gist_of_Impact_Statement_of_Adult_Child.pdf child] of HN349.<br />
<br />
Given there restriction order over HN349's identity, the Inquiry has not released material relating to him into the public domain other than his witness statement. His evidence to the Inquiry is being held in closed session, not open to the public.<ref>Communications from the Undercover Policing Inquiry, October-November 2020.</ref> Material relating to HN349 maybe found at [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/search-results/?fwp_search=HN349 UCPI.org.uk].<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
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<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=N_officers_3&diff=257367N officers 32020-12-03T15:44:52Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* For a general introduction into the cypher system, see [[N_officers| N Officers (main page)]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers <100, see [[N_officers_1|N officers part 1]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 100 - 299, see [[N_officers_2|N officers part 2]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 400 and higher, see [[N_officers_4|N officers part 4]].<br />
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* ''Updated 3 August 2018''<br />
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==N series officers part 3 (300-399)==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name (italics for cover name only)<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim / 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. Initially, his cover surname had not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Deceased. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190924-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN300_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 24 September 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover <br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety. Real and cover names have been restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181108_Ruling_13_final.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Demonstration Squad and Special Duties Squad Ruling 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 November 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN306<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN307<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN308<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN311<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity application to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN314<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management - DCI in last period of unit.<br />
| 11 May, directed any application for anonymity to be filed by 31 May 2018.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Role as DCI for the SDS and involvement in closure of the unit is given in the risk assessement of [[HN30]].<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018">Adrian Baxter, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/11-20180831-HN30-Gisted_Risk_Assessment.pdf N30 - Risk Assessment (gisted)], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 28 August 2018 (accessed 2 October 2018, via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| N315<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| Witness Protection Unit officer assigned by John Grieve to Lawrence family following wrongful publication of witness details in a Macpherson Report appendix; said they were 'never approached by any member of the MPS or asked for personal information or rumour surrounding the Stephen Lawrence family' (Herne II, 21.2.4-5).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN318<br />
| Ray Wilson<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Deceased. No restriction order applications made so real name to be published in due course.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969. Real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323<br />
| [[Helen Crampton]]<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN325<br />
| [[Conrad Dixon]]<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No application made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''Dave Fisher''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN328<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management <br />
| No restriction order application made and real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).</ref><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN332]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS manager<br />
| Held SDS managerial role in the 1970s. Real name will be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| Michael Tyrell, ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 to 1972 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in True Spies under the pseudonym 'Dan'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 - 1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342 / 299<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deployed 1971 - 1976 into International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League and the Troops Out Movement.<ref name="email.ucpi.18Dec2018">Email to core participants, '20181218-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN342', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
13 Sept 2018, Mitting indicated he was minded to restrict the real name on health grounds, the consideration of his application being delayed due to an operation for a serious condition. The Chair wrote:<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Minded-to-13-HN-342-299.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
:HN 299 / 342 is a septuagenarian and lives alone in a small community. He was deployed against three groups of his own selection between 1971 and 1975. There is nothing to indicate that his deployment was anything other than unremarkable. His cover name will be published, as will the names of the groups. In the unlikely event that any member of any of the groups can remember him, publication of his cover name, not of his real name, is what is required to prompt information or evidence from them. Publication of his real name would risk unwelcome media attention and the attention of those who may be ill disposed towards him within his small community. It would not assist fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry. <br />
<br />
Inquiry history: Extension sought to deal with in a future tranche.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> 11 May 2018, directed that any application for anonymity order to be filed as soon as reasonably practical after that date after the end of May.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> July 2018: application delayed.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref> Following publication of the cover name, an open application in relation to the real name will be released.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
21 February 2019: Inquiry directs that submissions regarding the resetriction order over the real name are to be made by 21 March 2019.<ref name="mitting.direction.21Feb19">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-Directions_for_SDS_HN18_HN66_HN122_HN299_342_and_HN344.pdf Directions for SDS HN18 HN66 HN122 HN299 342 and HN344], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 February 2019 (accessed 7 April 2019).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-HN299_342_open_application.pdf MPS open application to restrict real name] <br />
<br />
17 Apr 2019: ruling that real name would be restricted.<ref name="mitting.r15.17Apr2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190417-sds_anonymity_applications-ruling_15.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 15], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 Apr 2019.</ref> The Restriction order was made public on 23 October 2020.<ref>Email to core participants, ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2020.</ref><ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200114-restriction_order-HN299_342.pdf Restriction Order - HN299/342], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 April 2019 (published on ucpi.org.uk 23 October 2020).</ref><br />
<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into the Anti-Internment League and the Northern Minorities Defence League.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> It is unclear if he was an undercover or simply management.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan|Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] 1971. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Womens Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN350<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office<br />
| No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| ''[[Vince Miller (alias)|Vince Miller]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN358<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Apr 2018: no application made<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N367<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| SO15 / CTC from 2006, Det. Sgt; point of contact for ex-SDS officers. Was contacted by N81 in this capacity but was accused of having 'an agenda to belittle SDS' (Ellison, 253).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
Nov 2017: further information required before Inquiry can proceed with the application.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: 'is EN52. Further information is required before the Inquiry can progress this application. This application will be moved to a future tranche'.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN371<br />
| [[Phil Saunders]]<br />
| SDS management<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
* [[N_officers_1|Numbers <100]]<br />
* [[N_officers_2|Numbers 100-299]]<br />
* [[N_officers_4|Numbers 400 and higher]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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[[Category: UndercoverResearch]] [[Category: Undercover Public Inquiry]]</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=HN333&diff=257366HN3332020-12-02T19:56:20Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name='HN333'|Alias=unknown|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png |Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1968-1969|Targets=a left wing group which no longer exists}}<br />
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'''HN333''' is the cipher given to a former [[Special Demonstration Squad]]] undercover officer who was deployed for nine months over 1968 - 1969 into 'a left wing group which no longer exists'.<br />
<br />
According to the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]], no known allegation of misconduct against him and he neither committed any crimes or took the identity of a dead child as part of his cover. He described his training as 'rudimentary'.<ref name="hn333.ra.May2017"/> He infiltrated his target group by answering an advert for people who were following the philosophy of [redacted]. He subsequently attended meetings of this small group, which he characterised as 'extremist' and 'advocated the encouragement and instigation of others to commit violence which was seen as necessary'. Now in his 70s and retired.<ref name="hn333.ps.May2017">'HN333', [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HN333-Open-personal-statement-from-DL.pdf Open personal statement (redacted)], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 25 May 2017 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk).</ref><ref name="ucpi.ruling.5Dec17"/><ref name="hn333.ra.May2017">Graham Walker, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HN333-Open-risk-assessment-from-the-MPS.pdf HN333 Open risk assessment], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 2 May 2017 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk).</ref><ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref><br />
<br />
According to a risk assessment, the officer received no specific assurance or guarantee of anonymity from senior officer(s), and states that there was only 'implied implication' of future anonymity'.<ref name="hn333.ra.May2017"/> He subsequently went on to have a 'long and distinguished career' in the police.<ref name="hn333.ps.May2017"/> Nevertheless, their real and cover names (and groups targeted) were restricted in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]].<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
<br />
Unless otherwise indicated, the following material is taken from HN333's witness statement to the Inquiry.<ref name="HN333.ws">HN333, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/First-Witness-Statement-of-HN333.pdf Witness Statement], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 11 Dec 2018 (accessed via UCPI.org.uk 19 Nov 2020 as MPS-0740329).</ref><br />
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''* For the N cipher system see [[N officers]] page.''<br />
<br />
==Pre-SDS career==<br />
<br />
Born in the 1940s, HN333 joined the Metropolitan Police in the early 1960s. In 1968 he joined Metropolitan Police Special Branch, working on 'C' Squad - he notes that at the time Special Branch was small, but he joined at a time when it was increasing intake. As a junior officer in SB, he dealt with files and paperwork, and learned about the enquiries which SB engaged in.<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
<br />
He was not at the March 1968 anti-Vietnam War march, but was at the October one, attending as a plain clothes officer. On being asked of his role on the day, he wrote:<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
:: There would have been a briefing from a senior officer (I cannot remember who) to a number of plain-clothed Special Branch officers. The activity would be to mingle in the crowds to listen to pick up what the demonstrators intended to do next, i.e. to anticipate violent or other actions of concern, e.g. moving off the proclaimed route. I wouldn't have asked questions of others in the demonstration but I would have acted as if I was a law-abiding member of the public on a demonstration and may have chatted with those that I was walking near. Had I picked up information of concern I would have tried to make contact with a senior officer also present or, perhaps, by phone from a public telephone box. We did not have radios. I can't particularly recall gleaning any information of note or which would have required me reporting it back.<br />
<br />
==Special Demonstration Squad==<br />
<br />
HN333 joined the SDS in late 1968, after the 27 October demonstration. According to him the SDS dealt with the same issues as the rest of SB, differing only in its approach and work routine. In particular, an SDS officer was not office based, when they had done their inquiries they did not return to their desk. He also noted: 'SDS was unique in that SDS activities dominated your whole life'.<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
<br />
The role of the SDS officer was:<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
:: focused on obtaining information from the group(s) that they interacted with, thereby contributing to a threat assessment with regard to Public Order.<br />
<br />
HN333 places the founding of the SDS as in a time of increasing political unrest across Europe and the growth of new political movements:<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
:: My understanding of the situation is that there was a need to improve Special Branch assessments of future protest and unrest, in order to determine the necessary police response required to facilitate peaceful protest. <br />
:: The police response to this was to assess and anticipate risk. The objective was to anticipate violent public disorder that could cause damage and injury by getting closer to those most likely to perpetrate such a state. There was always a risk that legitimate protest would be used by certain extremist groups to express their politics, potentially with violence. By virtue of the SDS being with the attendees undercover, better predictions could be made. This was [founder of the unit] [[Conrad Dixon]]'s concept for the SDS. Therefore, the focal point of the SDS at its formation were the protest events that took place.<br />
<br />
===Joining and lack of training / guidance===<br />
<br />
The officer had not heard of the SDS until approached to join it, and said that at the time it was referred to as 'S Squad' or 'X Squad'. The approach to join was an informal one:<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
::I joined the SDS because I was asked to, and it seemed like a logical progression. I was aware at the time that we could not get the information to properly police events which could have become violent. I was a very junior member of Special Branch and enthused about joining without fully knowing what it was.<br />
<br />
At the time of joining, HN333 was a young, single man; most of the other male undercovers of his era differed in that they were married.<br />
<br />
As with other SDS undercovers at the time, he said he received no formal training, but relied on discussions with other undercovers:<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
:: There were no written instructions on how to carry out my tasking. Any guidance would have been verbal. Much of it was common sense: gain the targets' confidence, do not reveal your real identity, feed back information which is helpful to the deployment or uniformed branch.<br />
<br />
:: Once in the field, we would discuss our deployments at a group meeting and exchange our varied experiences and knowledge for future events.<br />
<br />
:: Initially you were given more guidance. It was suggested you take this route, or go to this meeting, say this or that. But I was not specifically tasked from week to week. I used my initiative instead. I could pre-announce what I was going to do at our meetings, and the management would say if they thought it was a good idea. I do not remember any specific thing I might have wanted guidance on, but I have no doubt that I would and could have asked if the need had arisen. Given that the objective was to gain intelligence, the management could not be too prescriptive. Much depended on what protests were planned, how situations developed, and which relationships could be built.<br />
<br />
He did not recall being given advice on instigating or partaking in crime, sexual relationships or what to do if brought before the court or if they obtained legally privileged information.<br />
<br />
Later in his witness statement, HN333 writes:<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
:: One more senior officer in particular mentored me, [[Roy Creamer]]. He and I would chat at the safehouse. He would make sure that I was OK, not feeling threatened, and that I had enough expenses. I would have seen him every week. He would give me an indication of what was going on elsewhere in London. In the era and the circumstances, I could not have asked for more oversight.<br />
<br />
===Creation of cover / legend===<br />
<br />
He adopted a cover name, which they received some limited guidance on, but the name they used was not taken or based on anyone else's identity. His background story was 'rudimentary' and 'would have fallen apart quite rapidly' if anyone had looked into it. They were not given documents in the false name; also though HN333 said: 'I tried to get a passport in my cover name, but it did not work.' They arranged a cover employment with [redacted], though that individual was unaware HN333 was being a undercover officer. As part of his cover, HN333 rented a bedsit then a basement flat on a monthly basis. He had no vehicle provided for him, and in any case he could not drive.<br />
<br />
HN333 changed his appearance; this included growing his hair, and:<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
:: I bought a second hand coat and I wore desert boots, jeans and dirty t-shirts underneath.<br />
<br />
Later he wrote:<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
:: You had to maintain a certain front at all times. My walk and voice changed. I found myself being a chameleon among my targets. My accent became more [redacted] and this just felt natural.<br />
<br />
Documents indicate that he spent about a month in SDS back office before approaching his target; he does not recall that time but surmises it would have been taken up preparing his cover.<br />
<br />
===Target group (unnamed)===<br />
<br />
The name of HN333's target group has been restricted by the Inquiry. According to his witness statement, he was tasked to this group and it was the only one he reported on. A member of SDS management suggested to him a public advertisement by the target group and he answered it. He then went along to the meeting where he was 'partially greeted and partially grilled'. HN333 makes it clear it was a group he was tasked to infiltrate and to continue doing so, and remained with them until the end of his deployment.<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
<br />
:: At the outset, the management decided who would be tasked to which areas. I was thought suitable for my targets perhaps because I was quite young. My job was to assume the attitude and convictions of ''[gisted: a member of the group]'' and to monitor the intentions of'' [the group]''.<br />
<br />
In a separate statement, he notes the group was small and extremist.<ref name="hn333.ps.May2017"/> However, in his witness evidence, he says the group was a loose association with no formal membership. He attended meetings which took place every two to three weeks, often in pubs, and likewise met with them socially in the pub. He also joined them on demonstrations organised by groups with which his target group was in sympathy with. Though he didn't attend every meeting he did go to demonstrations most weekends.<ref name="HN333.ws"/> He also stated:<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
:: Spending time with the group meant that you could anticipate how people would protest from their characters and what they were advocating. I would report anything that was relevant, verbally, in our meetings at the safe-flat. The matters which I would have considered relevant were anticipated future events and some details of individuals within the group. Initially I would have reported on who the members of the group were, simply because they were members of that group. Later on, the types of details (would report would not be a full identification briefing but just things that I picked up which, added to others, could form an intelligence picture of upcoming risks of disorder. <br />
:: I would try to report on the identity and activity of all of the group, but I did not always succeed. This was because people do not reveal all their details in ordinary social interaction, and I would not risk becoming conspicuous by trying to find out.<br />
<br />
HN333 also wrote:<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
:: I never took the lead in any of the group's activities. I drifted along. I was a waif and stray that they wanted to indoctrinate. I was simply a member, and an irregular visitor. <br />
<br />
:: I did not make decisions for the group, I listened. In terms of the group's activities, and the extent of my involvement in them, I helped to make posters one time. This strengthened my credibility as a group member and as an [redacted]. Also I visited a squat with the group to show our solidarity. I spent about 2 to 4 hours there. I did not support its existence or make it happen in any way. Squatting was suddenly popular. There were other squats going on whose existence 1 came to know about, and I passed on their locations to my managers.<br />
<br />
He feels he gained his target's confidence and was trusted to some degree by them, though he did not assume a position of trust among them. However, he also says he never formed close personal relationships there. The witness statement is mostly redacted around the issue of trust. HN333 basis of the claim he was trusted to some degree on the fact that he was asked to look after an item whose details are redacted. He kept this item in his possession for several days, taking it to the SDS safe house. No further details are required.<br />
<br />
HN333 said, while undercover, he did not participate in criminal activity or encourage it while deployed, nor was he arrested. He did not provide evidence for criminal prosecutions or was otherwise involved in legal proceedings; nor did he have access to legally privileged material or report on MPs. He summarised his time with the SDS as:<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
:: I played a small part in amalgamating a risk assessment so that uniformed police officers could be better aware and prepared for violent public disorder, riot, damage and injury. I believe the police were better equipped, and the public better protected, as a result.<br />
<br />
===Exit===<br />
<br />
HN333 withdrew as an undercover following health issues; he consulted with his managers who saw his withdrawal as being in his best interests. He gave an excuse to his target group, then broke off contact with them. This was not long after May 1969, and probably around July 1969. <br />
<br />
He was debriefed by a senior manager in the SDS, and wrote up notes, which included welfare issues. He attended courses and rejoined the rest of Special Branch where he spent much of the remainder of his police career.<br />
<br />
===Weekly meetings===<br />
<br />
HN333 provided considerable insight into the structure of the early meetings of the SDS at their safe house, which took place between one and three times a week:<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
:: In the time I was deployed, the meetings which took place at the safehouse were catch-ups over the designated geographical areas and subject matters. [[Conrad Dixon]] and/or [[Phil Saunders]] would have been present, along with other SDS colleagues. As many of the unit that could attend would do so. We would report around a table. <br />
:: The meetings began with a debrief about what had happened before. We would then talk through how to approach what was coming up, and get tips from others. The managers of the day would talk us through it. We would discuss the different factions we were looking at.<br />
<br />
===Use of reports===<br />
<br />
HN333 stated that one of Special Branch roles was counter-subversion, monitoring 'a variety of organisations and political philosophies', and was the 'prime police resource for this purpose'. However, he believed that the main use of his reports was 'appropriate policing presence at future public events', and was unaware if his reports were copies to MI5.<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
<br />
===Chain of command===<br />
<br />
During HN333's time at the SDS the unit was run by Det. Ch. Insp. [[Conrad Dixon]] and Det. Insp. [[Phil Saunders]] as his deputy. They were supported by three Detective Sergeants including [[Roy Creamer]] and [[HN332]]. He also recalled [[HN294]] (an undercover before taking up a managerial position in 1969) and [[Riby Wilson]] as being part of the SDS.<br />
<br />
HN333 also noted that he would:<br />
:: infrequently see the Detective Sergeants amongst demonstrators. They would be in informal plain clothes. We would not interact with each-other. I presume that they didn't do anything other than mingle as I described myself doing above but I cannot speak for them.<br />
<br />
===Contemporary undercovers===<br />
<br />
HN333 recalled his contemporary undercovers as being [[Mike Ferguson]], [[Douglas Edwards (alias)|Douglas Edwards / HN326]], [[Sean Lynch (alias)|Sean Lynch / HN68]] and [[Dick Epps (alias)| Dick Epps/ HN336]].<br />
<br />
He did not recall [[HN331]], [[Mike Tyrrell]], [[David Fisher]], [[Helen Crampton]] or [[HN324]] overlapping with his time in SDS.<br />
<br />
===Other material===<br />
<br />
HN333 referenced in the Dixon 1968 authored document "[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MPS-0724119.pdf Penetration of Extremist Groups]'' which set out a nominal structure for the SDS<ref>Conrad Dixon, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MPS-0724119.pdf Penetration of Extremist Groups], ''Metropolitan Police'', 26 November 1968 (accessed via upci.org.uk as MPS-0724119).</ref> as awaiting training prior to joining the SDS. However, the officer was not able to explain what that meant given he received no formal training.<br />
<br />
==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==<br />
<br />
* '''2017, 18 May 2017''': Directions made that any applications for anonymity in relation to HN333 to be served by 1 June 2017.<ref>Sir Christopher Pitchford, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170518-order-SDS-anonymity-applictions.pdf Order pursuant to the Ruling of 2 May 2017 granting an extension of time for service of anonymity applications by the Metropolitan Police Service in respect of the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry]], 18 May 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
<br />
* '''2017, May''': The MPS [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HN333-Open-application-from-the-MPS.pdf applied to restrict the real name only], while HN333's designated lawyer has [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HN333-Open-application-from-DL.pdf applied to restrict the cover name]. There is also published a Risk Assessment for HN333 which notes:<ref name="hn333.ra.May2017"/> It notes that there was some exposure of HN333 in a different policing role unconnected to his time undercover. Also that:<br />
:: [H]N333 feels that the media will provide a negative and tainted portrayal of [H]N333's role within the SDS, and in fact generally the SDS as a unit. [H]N333 has a concern that due to existing wider adverse media coverage of the SDS, the association will 'taint' [H]N333 and undermine [H]N333's credibility and standing, and that of [H]N333's children.<br />
<br />
* '''2017, 17 July''': Submissions<ref>Oliver Sanders QC, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HN321-HN330-HN333-HN343-supplementary-submissions-from-DL.pdf Notice of supplimentary submissions on behalf of HN321, HN330, HN333 and HN343 in support of MPS restriction order applications], ''Metropolitan Police Service (Designated Lawyers)'', 17 July 2017 (published via ucpi.org.uk).</ref> made in favour of anonymity over cover name made by Designated Lawyers.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HN333-Open-application-from-DL.pdf Application for Restriction Order (Anonymity) in respect of HN333's cover name], ''Metropolitan Police Service (Designated Lawyers)'', 27 July 2017 (published via ucpi.org.uk).</ref> <br />
<br />
* '''2017, 25 July''': 'Impact Statement' of HN333 in favour of anonymity.<ref name="hn333.ps.May2017"/><br />
<br />
* '''2017, 3 August''': Inquiry Chair, Sir John Mitting indicates he is 'minded to' restrict real and cover names on the ground:<ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded to' note 1], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 3 August 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
:: There is, however, a small – in my judgement, very small – risk that if his cover name were to be associated with the valuable duties which he performed subsequent to his deployment, he would be of interest to those who might pose such a threat. The nature of that risk is set out more fully in the closed reasons which accompany this note.<br />
<br />
* '''2017, 21 November''': Inquiry hearing which addresses among other issues, HN333's anonymity applications.<ref name="ucpi.hearing.transcript.21Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171121-Anonymity-application-hearing-day-2-Draft-Transcript.pdf Transcript of hearing of 21 November 2017], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 November 2017.</ref> See also the [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171004-NPNSCPs-submissions-re-SDS-Minded-to.pdf NPSCP submissions of 5 October 2017].<br />
<br />
* '''2017, 5 December''': Mitting issues his ruling that the real and cover names of the officer would be restricted stating:<ref name="ucpi.ruling.5Dec17">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171205-anonymity-ruling-SD-Dec-2017.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 5 December 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
:: HN333 is now in his 70s. He was deployed for 9 months in 1968 and 1969 against a left-wing group which no longer exists as such. There is not and never has been any known allegation of misconduct against him. No real threat to his personal safety or to that of his family would arise from surviving members or associates of his target group. Subsequent to his deployment, he performed valuable duties in another police role. There is a real, if unquantifiable, risk that if his cover name were to be published, it would lead to the identification of his real name. In those circumstances, a very small risk to life and limb would arise from those with an interest in his later activities. The nature of both risks is set out in the closed reasons which accompanied the “minded to” note of 3 August 2017 and this ruling.<br />
<br />
:: ...Although I acknowledge that the risk to the safety of HN333 is very small, it is not a risk which I would be prepared to run unless, at a minimum, it was necessary to do so for the purpose of fulfilling the terms of reference of the Inquiry. It is not. His deployment was short and appears to have been unremarkable. There are other officers still living who can give evidence about similar deployments undertaken in the early days of the Special Operations Squad. HN333 will provide or give evidence publicly, albeit not in his real or cover name. Little, if anything, will be lost by non-disclosure of his real or cover name.<br />
<br />
:: Further, this is a case in which the expectation of lifetime confidentiality held by HN333 is a relevant factor. He was entitled to rely upon it when he undertook the valuable duties which give rise to the very small risk to his safety. He does not assert that he would not have undertaken them otherwise; and I doubt that it was at the forefront of his mind when he did so. From what I know of his career, I believe that he simply did his duty when asked to do so. Nevertheless, it would, in my view, be artificial and wrong to require a conscious causative link between expectation and subsequent action in every case. An officer ought, other things being equal, to be able to rely on a reasonable expectation of confidentiality arising from the nature of his work and/or from what he was told by his employer. Given that there is nothing known about his deployment which would require this expectation to be displaced, it should be fulfilled.<br />
<br />
:: I am satisfied that publication of the real or cover name of HN 333 would interfere with his right to respect for his private life and would also be unfair to him. For the reasons explained, the interference is not necessary to permit the terms of reference of the Inquiry to be fulfilled. Given that it is not necessary, it would not be proportionate to do so.<br />
<br />
* '''2017, 8 December''': restriction order over real and cover names of HN333 issued.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171208-restriction-order-HN333.pdf Restriction order under Section 19 of the Inquiries Act 2005 re HN333], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 December 2017 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
<br />
* '''2018, 11 December''': provides witness statement to the Inquiry, which is an update of an earlier witness statement made 17 October 2010.<ref name="HN333.ws"/><br />
<br />
* '''2020, 19 November''': a short summary of HN333's witness statement is read out at the Inquiry evidential hearings.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201119-evidence_hearings_transcript.pdf Transcript of UCPI Evidence Hearings: Tranche 1 (Phase 1) Day 14], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 19 November 2020 (accessed via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
Given there restriction order over HN333's identity, the Inquiry has not released material relating to him into the public domain other than his witness statement. His evidence to the Inquiry is being held in closed session, not open to the public.<ref>Communications from the Undercover Policing Inquiry, October-November 2020.</ref> Material relating to HN333 maybe found at [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/search-results/?fwp_search=HN333 UCPI.org.uk].<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
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<references /></div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=N_officers_3&diff=257364N officers 32020-12-02T17:16:13Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* For a general introduction into the cypher system, see [[N_officers| N Officers (main page)]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers <100, see [[N_officers_1|N officers part 1]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 100 - 299, see [[N_officers_2|N officers part 2]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 400 and higher, see [[N_officers_4|N officers part 4]].<br />
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* ''Updated 3 August 2018''<br />
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==N series officers part 3 (300-399)==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name (italics for cover name only)<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim / 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. Initially, his cover surname had not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Deceased. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190924-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN300_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 24 September 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover <br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety. Real and cover names have been restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181108_Ruling_13_final.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Demonstration Squad and Special Duties Squad Ruling 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 November 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN306<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN307<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN308<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN311<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity application to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN314<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management - DCI in last period of unit.<br />
| 11 May, directed any application for anonymity to be filed by 31 May 2018.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Role as DCI for the SDS and involvement in closure of the unit is given in the risk assessement of [[HN30]].<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018">Adrian Baxter, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/11-20180831-HN30-Gisted_Risk_Assessment.pdf N30 - Risk Assessment (gisted)], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 28 August 2018 (accessed 2 October 2018, via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| N315<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| Witness Protection Unit officer assigned by John Grieve to Lawrence family following wrongful publication of witness details in a Macpherson Report appendix; said they were 'never approached by any member of the MPS or asked for personal information or rumour surrounding the Stephen Lawrence family' (Herne II, 21.2.4-5).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN318<br />
| Ray Wilson<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Deceased. No restriction order applications made so real name to be published in due course.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969. Real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN325<br />
| [[Conrad Dixon]]<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No application made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''Dave Fisher''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN328<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management <br />
| No restriction order application made and real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).</ref><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN332]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS manager<br />
| Held SDS managerial role in the 1970s. Real name will be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 to 1972 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in True Spies under the pseudonym 'Dan'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 - 1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342 / 299<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deployed 1971 - 1976 into International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League and the Troops Out Movement.<ref name="email.ucpi.18Dec2018">Email to core participants, '20181218-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN342', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
13 Sept 2018, Mitting indicated he was minded to restrict the real name on health grounds, the consideration of his application being delayed due to an operation for a serious condition. The Chair wrote:<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Minded-to-13-HN-342-299.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
:HN 299 / 342 is a septuagenarian and lives alone in a small community. He was deployed against three groups of his own selection between 1971 and 1975. There is nothing to indicate that his deployment was anything other than unremarkable. His cover name will be published, as will the names of the groups. In the unlikely event that any member of any of the groups can remember him, publication of his cover name, not of his real name, is what is required to prompt information or evidence from them. Publication of his real name would risk unwelcome media attention and the attention of those who may be ill disposed towards him within his small community. It would not assist fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry. <br />
<br />
Inquiry history: Extension sought to deal with in a future tranche.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> 11 May 2018, directed that any application for anonymity order to be filed as soon as reasonably practical after that date after the end of May.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> July 2018: application delayed.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref> Following publication of the cover name, an open application in relation to the real name will be released.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
21 February 2019: Inquiry directs that submissions regarding the resetriction order over the real name are to be made by 21 March 2019.<ref name="mitting.direction.21Feb19">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-Directions_for_SDS_HN18_HN66_HN122_HN299_342_and_HN344.pdf Directions for SDS HN18 HN66 HN122 HN299 342 and HN344], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 February 2019 (accessed 7 April 2019).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-HN299_342_open_application.pdf MPS open application to restrict real name] <br />
<br />
17 Apr 2019: ruling that real name would be restricted.<ref name="mitting.r15.17Apr2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190417-sds_anonymity_applications-ruling_15.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 15], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 Apr 2019.</ref> The Restriction order was made public on 23 October 2020.<ref>Email to core participants, ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2020.</ref><ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200114-restriction_order-HN299_342.pdf Restriction Order - HN299/342], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 April 2019 (published on ucpi.org.uk 23 October 2020).</ref><br />
<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into the Anti-Internment League and the Northern Minorities Defence League.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> It is unclear if he was an undercover or simply management.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan|Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] 1971. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Womens Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN350<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office<br />
| No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| ''[[Vince Miller (alias)|Vince Miller]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN358<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Apr 2018: no application made<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N367<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| SO15 / CTC from 2006, Det. Sgt; point of contact for ex-SDS officers. Was contacted by N81 in this capacity but was accused of having 'an agenda to belittle SDS' (Ellison, 253).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
Nov 2017: further information required before Inquiry can proceed with the application.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: 'is EN52. Further information is required before the Inquiry can progress this application. This application will be moved to a future tranche'.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN371<br />
| [[Phil Saunders]]<br />
| SDS management<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
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* [[N_officers_1|Numbers <100]]<br />
* [[N_officers_2|Numbers 100-299]]<br />
* [[N_officers_4|Numbers 400 and higher]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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[[Category: UndercoverResearch]] [[Category: Undercover Public Inquiry]]</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=N_officers_3&diff=257363N officers 32020-12-02T17:12:32Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=N Officers list|Description=A list of N &amp; HN cyphers used to designate individual officers in the Inquiry and by Operation Herne (Part 3)}}<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* For a general introduction into the cypher system, see [[N_officers| N Officers (main page)]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers <100, see [[N_officers_1|N officers part 1]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 100 - 299, see [[N_officers_2|N officers part 2]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 400 and higher, see [[N_officers_4|N officers part 4]].<br />
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* ''Updated 3 August 2018''<br />
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==N series officers part 3 (300-399)==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name (italics for cover name only)<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim / 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. Initially, his cover surname had not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Deceased. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190924-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN300_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 24 September 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover <br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety. Real and cover names have been restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181108_Ruling_13_final.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Demonstration Squad and Special Duties Squad Ruling 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 November 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN306<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN307<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN308<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN311<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity application to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN314<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management - DCI in last period of unit.<br />
| 11 May, directed any application for anonymity to be filed by 31 May 2018.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Role as DCI for the SDS and involvement in closure of the unit is given in the risk assessement of [[HN30]].<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018">Adrian Baxter, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/11-20180831-HN30-Gisted_Risk_Assessment.pdf N30 - Risk Assessment (gisted)], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 28 August 2018 (accessed 2 October 2018, via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| N315<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| Witness Protection Unit officer assigned by John Grieve to Lawrence family following wrongful publication of witness details in a Macpherson Report appendix; said they were 'never approached by any member of the MPS or asked for personal information or rumour surrounding the Stephen Lawrence family' (Herne II, 21.2.4-5).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN318<br />
| Ray Wilson<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Deceased. No restriction order applications made so real name to be published in due course.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969. Real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN325<br />
| [[Conrad Dixon]]<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No application made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''Dave Fisher''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN328<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management <br />
| No restriction order application made and real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).</ref><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN332]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS manager<br />
| Held SDS managerial role in the 1970s. Real name will be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 to 1972 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in True Spies under the pseudonym 'Dan'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 - 1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342 / 299<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deployed 1971 - 1976 into International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League and the Troops Out Movement.<ref name="email.ucpi.18Dec2018">Email to core participants, '20181218-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN342', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
13 Sept 2018, Mitting indicated he was minded to restrict the real name on health grounds, the consideration of his application being delayed due to an operation for a serious condition. The Chair wrote:<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Minded-to-13-HN-342-299.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
:HN 299 / 342 is a septuagenarian and lives alone in a small community. He was deployed against three groups of his own selection between 1971 and 1975. There is nothing to indicate that his deployment was anything other than unremarkable. His cover name will be published, as will the names of the groups. In the unlikely event that any member of any of the groups can remember him, publication of his cover name, not of his real name, is what is required to prompt information or evidence from them. Publication of his real name would risk unwelcome media attention and the attention of those who may be ill disposed towards him within his small community. It would not assist fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry. <br />
<br />
Inquiry history: Extension sought to deal with in a future tranche.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> 11 May 2018, directed that any application for anonymity order to be filed as soon as reasonably practical after that date after the end of May.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> July 2018: application delayed.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref> Following publication of the cover name, an open application in relation to the real name will be released.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
21 February 2019: Inquiry directs that submissions regarding the resetriction order over the real name are to be made by 21 March 2019.<ref name="mitting.direction.21Feb19">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-Directions_for_SDS_HN18_HN66_HN122_HN299_342_and_HN344.pdf Directions for SDS HN18 HN66 HN122 HN299 342 and HN344], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 February 2019 (accessed 7 April 2019).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-HN299_342_open_application.pdf MPS open application to restrict real name] <br />
<br />
17 Apr 2019: ruling that real name would be restricted.<ref name="mitting.r15.17Apr2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190417-sds_anonymity_applications-ruling_15.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 15], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 Apr 2019.</ref> The Restriction order was made public on 23 October 2020.<ref>Email to core participants, ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2020.</ref><ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200114-restriction_order-HN299_342.pdf Restriction Order - HN299/342], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 April 2019 (published on ucpi.org.uk 23 October 2020).</ref><br />
<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into the Anti-Internment League and the Northern Minorities Defence League.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> It is unclear if he was an undercover or simply management.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan|Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] 1971. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Womens Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN350<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office<br />
| No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| ''[[Vince Miller (alias)|Vince Miller]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN358<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Apr 2018: no application made<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N367<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| SO15 / CTC from 2006, Det. Sgt; point of contact for ex-SDS officers. Was contacted by N81 in this capacity but was accused of having 'an agenda to belittle SDS' (Ellison, 253).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
Nov 2017: further information required before Inquiry can proceed with the application.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: 'is EN52. Further information is required before the Inquiry can progress this application. This application will be moved to a future tranche'.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|}<br />
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* [[N_officers_1|Numbers <100]]<br />
* [[N_officers_2|Numbers 100-299]]<br />
* [[N_officers_4|Numbers 400 and higher]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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[[Category: UndercoverResearch]] [[Category: Undercover Public Inquiry]]</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=N_officers_3&diff=257362N officers 32020-12-02T16:54:23Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=N Officers list|Description=A list of N &amp; HN cyphers used to designate individual officers in the Inquiry and by Operation Herne (Part 3)}}<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* For a general introduction into the cypher system, see [[N_officers| N Officers (main page)]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers <100, see [[N_officers_1|N officers part 1]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 100 - 299, see [[N_officers_2|N officers part 2]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 400 and higher, see [[N_officers_4|N officers part 4]].<br />
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* ''Updated 3 August 2018''<br />
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==N series officers part 3 (300-399)==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name (italics for cover name only)<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim / 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. Initially, his cover surname had not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Deceased. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190924-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN300_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 24 September 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover <br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety. Real and cover names have been restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181108_Ruling_13_final.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Demonstration Squad and Special Duties Squad Ruling 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 November 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN306<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN307<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN308<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN311<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity application to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN314<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management - DCI in last period of unit.<br />
| 11 May, directed any application for anonymity to be filed by 31 May 2018.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Role as DCI for the SDS and involvement in closure of the unit is given in the risk assessement of [[HN30]].<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018">Adrian Baxter, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/11-20180831-HN30-Gisted_Risk_Assessment.pdf N30 - Risk Assessment (gisted)], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 28 August 2018 (accessed 2 October 2018, via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| N315<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| Witness Protection Unit officer assigned by John Grieve to Lawrence family following wrongful publication of witness details in a Macpherson Report appendix; said they were 'never approached by any member of the MPS or asked for personal information or rumour surrounding the Stephen Lawrence family' (Herne II, 21.2.4-5).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN318<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Deceased. No restriction order applications made so real name to be published in due course.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969. Real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN325<br />
| [[Conrad Dixon]]<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No application made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN328<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management <br />
| No restriction order application made and real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).</ref><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN332]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS manager<br />
| Held SDS managerial role in the 1970s. Real name will be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 to 1972 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in True Spies under the pseudonym 'Dan'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 - 1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342 / 299<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deployed 1971 - 1976 into International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League and the Troops Out Movement.<ref name="email.ucpi.18Dec2018">Email to core participants, '20181218-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN342', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
13 Sept 2018, Mitting indicated he was minded to restrict the real name on health grounds, the consideration of his application being delayed due to an operation for a serious condition. The Chair wrote:<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Minded-to-13-HN-342-299.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
:HN 299 / 342 is a septuagenarian and lives alone in a small community. He was deployed against three groups of his own selection between 1971 and 1975. There is nothing to indicate that his deployment was anything other than unremarkable. His cover name will be published, as will the names of the groups. In the unlikely event that any member of any of the groups can remember him, publication of his cover name, not of his real name, is what is required to prompt information or evidence from them. Publication of his real name would risk unwelcome media attention and the attention of those who may be ill disposed towards him within his small community. It would not assist fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry. <br />
<br />
Inquiry history: Extension sought to deal with in a future tranche.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> 11 May 2018, directed that any application for anonymity order to be filed as soon as reasonably practical after that date after the end of May.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> July 2018: application delayed.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref> Following publication of the cover name, an open application in relation to the real name will be released.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
21 February 2019: Inquiry directs that submissions regarding the resetriction order over the real name are to be made by 21 March 2019.<ref name="mitting.direction.21Feb19">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-Directions_for_SDS_HN18_HN66_HN122_HN299_342_and_HN344.pdf Directions for SDS HN18 HN66 HN122 HN299 342 and HN344], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 February 2019 (accessed 7 April 2019).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-HN299_342_open_application.pdf MPS open application to restrict real name] <br />
<br />
17 Apr 2019: ruling that real name would be restricted.<ref name="mitting.r15.17Apr2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190417-sds_anonymity_applications-ruling_15.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 15], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 Apr 2019.</ref> The Restriction order was made public on 23 October 2020.<ref>Email to core participants, ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2020.</ref><ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200114-restriction_order-HN299_342.pdf Restriction Order - HN299/342], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 April 2019 (published on ucpi.org.uk 23 October 2020).</ref><br />
<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into the Anti-Internment League and the Northern Minorities Defence League.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> It is unclear if he was an undercover or simply management.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan|Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] 1971. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Womens Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN350<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office<br />
| No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| ''[[Vince Miller (alias)|Vince Miller]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN358<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Apr 2018: no application made<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N367<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| SO15 / CTC from 2006, Det. Sgt; point of contact for ex-SDS officers. Was contacted by N81 in this capacity but was accused of having 'an agenda to belittle SDS' (Ellison, 253).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
Nov 2017: further information required before Inquiry can proceed with the application.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: 'is EN52. Further information is required before the Inquiry can progress this application. This application will be moved to a future tranche'.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|}<br />
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* [[N_officers_1|Numbers <100]]<br />
* [[N_officers_2|Numbers 100-299]]<br />
* [[N_officers_4|Numbers 400 and higher]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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[[Category: UndercoverResearch]] [[Category: Undercover Public Inquiry]]</div>Peter Salmonhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=N_officers_3&diff=257361N officers 32020-12-02T16:52:22Z<p>Peter Salmon: </p>
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<div>{{UCPI_sidebar|Name=N Officers list|Description=A list of N &amp; HN cyphers used to designate individual officers in the Inquiry and by Operation Herne (Part 3)}}<br />
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Police officers cited in the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]] (UCPI) are generally designated by a cypher / nominal starting with N or HN followed by a number. The practice of assigning these cyphers was begun in by the Metropolitan Police inquiry [[Operation Herne]] which investigated the activities of the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] undercovers. It was subsequently adopted by [[Mark Ellison]] for his [[Ellison Review|Review]] and the UCPI, both of which draw heavily on Operation Herne. The system appears to have changed in 2017, when the Inquiry began using the 'HN' label, though the associated numbers appear unchanged.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-press-notice-SDS-Minded-to.pdf Press Release: 'Minded to' note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad], Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk), 3 August 2017.</ref> <br />
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* For a general introduction into the cypher system, see [[N_officers| N Officers (main page)]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers <100, see [[N_officers_1|N officers part 1]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 100 - 299, see [[N_officers_2|N officers part 2]].<br />
* For N officers with numbers 400 and higher, see [[N_officers_4|N officers part 4]].<br />
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* ''Updated 3 August 2018''<br />
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==N series officers part 3 (300-399)==<br />
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{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
! Cypher<br />
! Name (italics for cover name only)<br />
! Position<br />
! Notes <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN300]]<br />
| ''Jim / 'Jimmy' Pickford''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party late 1974 to January 1977. Initially, his cover surname had not been discovered. During deployment told another undercover that he had fallen in love with a member of his target group and had divorced from second wife in 1979. Deceased. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180912-update-counsels-explanatory-note-SDS-Minded-to-13.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded-To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Public Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref> Also infiltrated Freedom Collective, Pavement Collective, Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Council Anti-Fascist Committee, Kingston Anarchist Workers Collective, South London Anarchist Workers Association, Federation of London Anarchist Groups.<ref>Email to core participants, '20190924-UCPI_to_all_CPs-HN300_cover_name', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 24 September 2019, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN301<br />
| ''[[Bob_Stubbs_(alias)|Bob Stubbs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party 1971-1976. Real name restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN302]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover <br />
| Deployed undercover in 1970s. Admits to 'fleeting sexual encounter'. Appeared as 'Brian' in ''True Spies''. Real and cover names to be restricted as there is a risk to HN302's safety. Real and cover names have been restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN303<br />
| ''[[Peter Collins (alias)|Peter Collins]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1973-77 deployed into the Workers Revolutionary Party. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN304<br />
| ''[[Graham Coates (alias)|Graham Coates]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976-1979 infiltrated International Socialists/Socialist Workers Party, Zero Collective, Anarchy Collective and the Libertarian Anarchist Group. Real name restricted.<ref name="mitting.ruling13.8Nov2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181108_Ruling_13_final.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Demonstration Squad and Special Duties Squad Ruling 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 November 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN306<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180220-Headed-direction-for-February-SDS-tranche-applications..pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 February 2018 (accessed 1 March 2018 via UCPI.org.uk).</ref> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180322_SDS_anonymity_Minded_to_6.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 6 and Ruling 5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 22 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN307<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 February 2018, directions issued for any application for restriction orders to be submitted by 26 & 28 February 2018 for MPS and Designated Lawyers Team respectively.<ref name="ucpi.dir.20Feb18"/> No application for restriction order made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.HNRuling6.22Mar2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN308<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20180426_SDS_anonymity-Minded_to_8.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 26 April 2018.</ref> 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity applications to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN311<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| 20 March 2018, directed that any anonymity application to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers team.<ref>[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/20180320-directions-SDS-anonymity.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 March 2018.</ref> April 2018: no application made.<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN314<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management - DCI in last period of unit.<br />
| 11 May, directed any application for anonymity to be filed by 31 May 2018.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/> Role as DCI for the SDS and involvement in closure of the unit is given in the risk assessement of [[HN30]].<ref name="hn30.ra.28Aug2018">Adrian Baxter, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/11-20180831-HN30-Gisted_Risk_Assessment.pdf N30 - Risk Assessment (gisted)], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', 28 August 2018 (accessed 2 October 2018, via ucpi.org.uk).</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| N315<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| Witness Protection Unit officer assigned by John Grieve to Lawrence family following wrongful publication of witness details in a Macpherson Report appendix; said they were 'never approached by any member of the MPS or asked for personal information or rumour surrounding the Stephen Lawrence family' (Herne II, 21.2.4-5).<ref name="herne.2">Mick Creedon, [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne: Report 2 - Allegations of Peter Francis], ''Metropolitan Police Service'', March 2014.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN318<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Deceased. No restriction order applications made so real name to be published in due course.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-updated-explanatory-note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory note to accompany the 'Minded-To' Note (2) in respect for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017.</ref> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;" <br />
| HN321<br />
| ''[[Bill Lewis (alias)|Wililam Paul "Bill" Lewis]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, for one year Sept 1968-Sept 1969. Real name will be restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN322]]<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1968 for two months. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN323<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased and no records of cover name found. No restriction order application made<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17">John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170803-Minded-to.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI.org.uk)'', 3 August 2017.</ref> so real name will be published.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN325<br />
| Conrad Dixon<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No application made<ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN326<br />
| ''[[Douglas_Edwards_(alias)|Douglas Edwards]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1968-1971 was deployed into anarchist groups, Independent Labour Party, Tri-Continental and Dambusters Mobilising Committee. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN327<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deceased. No record of cover name and no application made in respect of the real name. Real name to be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> <ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN328<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management <br />
| No restriction order application made and real name to be published in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN329<br />
| ''[[John Graham (alias)|John Graham]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation in 1968-1969. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN330<br />
| ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against the Havering branch of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for several weeks in 1968. Real name will be restricted.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN331<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against one group (now defunct) in 1968 & 1969. Cover name is unknown. Killed in road traffic accident in the 1970s leaving a widow and son. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20171017-MPS-HN331-Open_Application.pdf Application made over real name].<br />
<br />
Mitting in his 'Minded To' Nov 2017, indicated he would restrict the real name, on the grounds it would cause distress to HN331's widow):<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20171114-SDS-anonymity-Minded-to-2.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad ‘Minded to’ note 2], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 14 November 2017 (accessed 15 November 2017).</ref><br />
:: HN331’s death caused his widow to suffer an acute mental illness, for which she received in-patient treatment. She did not remarry. She is now in her 70s and suffers from the early stages of dementia. According to her son, she has been deeply affected by the possibility that HN331’s identity might be revealed in the course of the Inquiry. No useful purpose would be served by publication of HN331’s real name. Given the nature of his deployment and the elapse of time since it occurred, it is inconceivable that it would prompt evidence from others about his deployment. His widow and surviving family are entitled to be left in peace.<br />
<br />
May 2018: Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted and declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN331.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18">[https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180515_ruling_SDS_anonymity.pdf In the matter of section 19 (3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Ruling], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 15 May 2018.</ref><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN332]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS manager<br />
| Held SDS managerial role in the 1970s. Real name will be restricted on health grounds.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN333]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for nine months in 1968-1969, into a left wing group that no longer exists. Real and cover names restricted due to small risk arising out of those who might have interest in his later activities.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN334<br />
| ''[[Margaret White (alias)|Margaret White]]''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed into Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in 1968 for several months, as girlfriend of ''[[Don de Freitas (alias)|Don de Freitas]]'' (HN330). Served in SDS back office 1968-1972. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN335<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| No record of cover name and no application made to restrict real name.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/><ref name="ucpi.mitting.mindedto.3Aug17"/> which will be used in due course.<ref name="ucpi.pr.3Aug17"/> Deceased.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN336<br />
| ''[[Dick Epps (alias)|Dick Epps]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 to 1972 into International Marxist Group, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and British Communist Party. Later served in Special Branch Industrial Intelligence Section. Appeared in True Spies under the pseudonym 'Dan'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN337]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover and manager<br />
| Deployed against four groups in 1970s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN338<br />
| ''cover name lost''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for a period in 1970 or 1971. Deceased. <ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
27 September 2017: [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20170927-MPS-HN338-Open_Application.pdf Application over real name] made by Metropolitan Police. Nov 2017: Mitting minded to restrict publication of real name to avoid distress to HN338's widow, who had recently lost an immediate family member, with Mitting saying 'I accept the [MPS] submission that nothing should be done which risks causing her further distress'.<ref name="mitting.mindedto2.14Nov17"/> May 2018: ruling made to restrict real name with Mitting stated he was declined to disclose at this stage the groups that were infiltrated by HN338.<ref name="mitting.ruling.15May18"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN339<br />
| ''[[Stewart Goodman (alias)|Stewart Goodman]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1970-1971 into the Anti-Apartheid Movement &amp; International Socialists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN340<br />
| ''[[Alan Nixon (alias)|Alan Nixon]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1969 - 1972 into the International Marxist Group and Irish Solidarity Campaign. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN341]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in the 1970s against two groups. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN342 / 299<br />
| ''David Hughes''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deployed 1971 - 1976 into International Marxist Group, Anti-Internment League and the Troops Out Movement.<ref name="email.ucpi.18Dec2018">Email to core participants, '20181218-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN342', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 18 December 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref><br />
<br />
13 Sept 2018, Mitting indicated he was minded to restrict the real name on health grounds, the consideration of his application being delayed due to an operation for a serious condition. The Chair wrote:<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Minded-to-13-HN-342-299.pdf In the matter of section 19(3) of the Inquiries Act 2005 Application for restriction order in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad 'Minded To' Note 13], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018.</ref><br />
:HN 299 / 342 is a septuagenarian and lives alone in a small community. He was deployed against three groups of his own selection between 1971 and 1975. There is nothing to indicate that his deployment was anything other than unremarkable. His cover name will be published, as will the names of the groups. In the unlikely event that any member of any of the groups can remember him, publication of his cover name, not of his real name, is what is required to prompt information or evidence from them. Publication of his real name would risk unwelcome media attention and the attention of those who may be ill disposed towards him within his small community. It would not assist fulfilment of the terms of reference of the Inquiry. <br />
<br />
Inquiry history: Extension sought to deal with in a future tranche.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> 11 May 2018, directed that any application for anonymity order to be filed as soon as reasonably practical after that date after the end of May.<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180511-direction_SDS_anonymity_applications.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstrations Squad: Directions], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 11 May 2018.</ref> July 2018: application delayed.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018">Kate Wilkinson, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180730_SDS_anonymity_updated_explanatory_note.pdf Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad - Update as at 30 July 2018], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 30 July 2018.</ref> Following publication of the cover name, an open application in relation to the real name will be released.<ref name="wilkinson.ucpi.cti.update.13Sept2018"/><br />
<br />
21 February 2019: Inquiry directs that submissions regarding the resetriction order over the real name are to be made by 21 March 2019.<ref name="mitting.direction.21Feb19">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-Directions_for_SDS_HN18_HN66_HN122_HN299_342_and_HN344.pdf Directions for SDS HN18 HN66 HN122 HN299 342 and HN344], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 21 February 2019 (accessed 7 April 2019).</ref> [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190221-HN299_342_open_application.pdf MPS open application to restrict real name] <br />
<br />
17 Apr 2019: ruling that real name would be restricted.<ref name="mitting.r15.17Apr2019">Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190417-sds_anonymity_applications-ruling_15.pdf Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Ruling 15], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 Apr 2019.</ref> The Restriction order was made public on 23 October 2020.<ref>Email to core participants, ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 23 October 2020.</ref><ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200114-restriction_order-HN299_342.pdf Restriction Order - HN299/342], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 17 April 2019 (published on ucpi.org.uk 23 October 2020).</ref><br />
<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN343<br />
| ''[[John Clinton (alias)|John Clinton]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the International Socialists 1971-1974.<ref name="email.ucpi.8feb2018">Email to core participants, '20180208 UPCI to all CPs - HN343 and HN347 cover names', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 8 February 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN344]]<br />
| ''Ian Cameron''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed in 1971-1972 into the Anti-Internment League and the Northern Minorities Defence League.<ref name="email.ucpi.13Sept2018">Email to core participants, '20180913-UCPI_to_all_CPs-publishing_HN344', ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 13 September 2018, referencing update of the webpage [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/cover-names/ UCPI.org.uk/cover-names].</ref> Mitting has questioned the accuracy of his account; arrested though not prosecuted for unauthorised possession of official documents. <br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN345<br />
| ''[[Peter Fredericks (alias)|Peter Fredericks]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed for six months in 1971, reporting back on the Black Power movement, Operation Omega, Young Haganah. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN346<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS<br />
| Deceased. No cover name known and no restriction order application has been made; real name to be published.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/> It is unclear if he was an undercover or simply management.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN347<br />
| ''[[Alex Sloan|Alex Sloan]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into the [http://specialbranchfiles.uk/special-branch-and-the-irish-national-liberation-solidarity-front/ Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front] 1971. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN348]]<br />
| ''Sandra''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed 1972-1973 into the Womens Liberation Front. Cover name not fully recalled but thought to be 'Sandra'. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN349]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover & back office<br />
| Deployed for about a year in early 1970s against anarchist groups in what appears to be an unsuccessful deployment. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN350<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office<br />
| No application made so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN351<br />
| ''[[Jeff Slater (alias)|Jeff Slater]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1975 infiltrated the International Socialists; withdrawn due to health problems. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN353<br />
| ''[[Gary Roberts (alias)|Gary Roberts]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1974 - 1978 infiltrated the International Socialists / Socialist Workers Party and International Marxist Group. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN354<br />
| ''[[Vince Miller (alias)|Vince Miller]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| 1976 - 1979 infiltrated the Socialist Workers Party. Admits 'two fleeting sexual encounters' with activists. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| [[HN355]]<br />
| ''restricted''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed into a number of Maoist groups in late 1970s/early 1980s. Real and cover names restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN356/124<br />
| ''[[Bill Biggs (alias)|Bill Biggs]]''<br />
| SDS undercover<br />
| Deployed against Socialist Workers Party 1977-1982. Real name restricted.<br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| HN358<br />
| ''to come''<br />
| SDS back office / management<br />
| Apr 2018: no application made<ref name="mitting.mindedto8.26Apr2018"/> so real name will be published. No cover name.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|- style="vertical-align:top;"<br />
| N367<br />
| ''unknown''<br />
| other<br />
| SO15 / CTC from 2006, Det. Sgt; point of contact for ex-SDS officers. Was contacted by N81 in this capacity but was accused of having 'an agenda to belittle SDS' (Ellison, 253).<ref name="ellison.1">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case], ''Stephen Lawrence Independent Review'', Vol. 1, Gov.UK, March 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
Nov 2017: further information required before Inquiry can proceed with the application.<ref name="explan.note.cti.14Nov17"/><br />
<br />
30 July 2018: 'is EN52. Further information is required before the Inquiry can progress this application. This application will be moved to a future tranche'.<ref name="ucpi.explan.note.30July2018"/><br />
|}<br />
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* [[N_officers_1|Numbers <100]]<br />
* [[N_officers_2|Numbers 100-299]]<br />
* [[N_officers_4|Numbers 400 and higher]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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[[Category: UndercoverResearch]] [[Category: Undercover Public Inquiry]]</div>Peter Salmon