HN6
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HN6 is the cipher given to a former Special Demonstration Squad] undercover officer who targeted three groups in the 1990s. The Undercover Policing Inquiry is minded to preventing their real or cover name being published by the Undercover Policing Inquiry.[1]
For the N cipher system see N officers page.
In the Undercover Policing Inquiry
- 19 April 2018: directed that any applications were to be filed by 24 April 2018 by MPS legal team, or 27 April for the Designated Lawyers team.[2]
- 23 May 2018: Chair of the Inquiry, John Mitting, wrote that he was minded to restrict publication of both real and cover name of HN6, saying:[3]
- The nature of the deployment gave rise to real risks to the safety of HN6. If the true identity were to be disclosed, HN6 would face a real risk of violence, principally from associates or sympathisers of the groups. There is a real risk that, if the cover name of HN6 were to be published, it would lead to disclosure of the real name. Further, the deployment caused long term mental health problems for HN6, which are susceptible to treatment. In the opinion of Dr Busuttil, who examined HN6 in 2017, disclosure of the real or cover name would be likely to exacerbate his problems and to interfere with treatment for them. Nothing that I know of the circumstances of the deployment or of HN6's conduct of it suggests that it is necessary to run any of these risks...
- A closed note accompanies these reasons.
Notes
- ↑ 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad Ruling on HN122, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 23 May 2018.
- ↑ Sir John Mitting, 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.
- ↑ 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.
