Jackie Anderson (alias)
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Jaqueline 'Jackie' Anderson is the cover name used by a former Special Demonstration Squad] undercover officer who infiltrated the Reclaim the Streets, Earth First! & the WOMBLES 2000-2005.[1] She was known as 'Massage Jackie' or 'Radical Dairy Jackie' after the squatted social centre she associated herself to.
She is also referred to by the cipher HN77 (for cipher system, see the N officers page).
In the Undercover Policing Inquiry
In March 2018, the Chair of the Inquiry, John Mitting, wrote that the risk to her from groups she targeted negligible, but her evidence likely to attract significant media interest. The evidence she could provide inquiry would be of significant interest as a) deployed despite failing a psychometric test, and b) much of her reporting judged by senior officers as of being little value. A decision was made by a senior officer HN36 to terminate her deployment on basis it was not justified under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, but she terminated her own deployment. She complained of her treatment by superior officers. However, Mitting found that publishing her real name was not necessary to explore all these issues.[2]
Her cover name was released in April 2018.[1] On 15 May 2018, Mitting ruled the real name would be restricted, the application over the cover name being refused.[3]
Directions had previously been issued on 20 February 2018 that any applications for restriction orders had to be submitted by the end of that month.[4]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Undercover Policing Inquiry, Update of Cover names page, ucpi.org.uk, 17 April 2018.
- ↑ Sir John Mitting, 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).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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).
