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 John Dines was an undercover officer in the Special Demonstration Squad between 1987 and 1991, disappearing early 1992. He infiltrated a range of groups and campaigns, mainly in North London, using the alias ‘John Barker’.

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 John Dines was an undercover officer in the Special Demonstration Squad between 1987 and 1991, disappearing early 1992. He infiltrated a range of groups and campaigns, mainly in North London, using the alias ‘John Barker’.

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	John Dines was an undercover officer in the Special Demonstration Squad between 1987 and 1991, disappearing early 1992. He infiltrated a range of groups and campaigns, mainly in North London, using the alias ‘John Barker’.		John Dines was an undercover officer in the Special Demonstration Squad between 1987 and 1991, disappearing early 1992. He infiltrated a range of groups and campaigns, mainly in North London, using the alias ‘John Barker’.

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	John Dines was an undercover officer in the Special Demonstration Squad between 1987 and 1991, disappearing early 1992. He infiltrated a range of groups and campaigns, mainly in North London, using the alias ‘John Barker’.		John Dines was an undercover officer in the Special Demonstration Squad between 1987 and 1991, disappearing early 1992. He infiltrated a range of groups and campaigns, mainly in North London, using the alias ‘John Barker’.

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	A separate page, [[John Dines: current career]], profiles the course for Indian police officers, Dines' involvement in it; it turns out one of the speakers has close connections to another undercover officer, also his supervisor back in the days [[Bob Lambert]], and with [[David Veness]], whose tasks at various points in his career included overseeing undercover operations of the SDS.		A separate page, [[John Dines: current career]], profiles the course for Indian police officers, Dines' involvement in it; it turns out one of the speakers has close connections to another undercover officer, also his supervisor back in the days [[Bob Lambert]], and with [[David Veness]], whose tasks at various points in his career included overseeing undercover operations of the SDS.
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		+	==In the Undercover Policing Inquiry==
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		+	Dines has been given the [[N_officers\|nominal]] '''HN5''' for the purposes of [[Operation Herne]] and the [[Undercover Policing Inquiry]]. On 20 December 2016, the Inquiry noted that no restriction order over the cover or real name of the officer was being sought, writing<ref>Sir John Mitting, [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/161220-press-notice-JD.pdf No anonymity sought for N5], ''Undercover Policing Inquiry'', 20 December 2016.</ref>
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		+	::The Inquiry has received confirmation that no restriction is sought over the identity or the undercover identity used by a police officer known as N5. John Dines, otherwise known as N5, worked for the Metropolitan Police Service’s Special Demonstration Squad; whilst working there he used an identity (‘John Barker’) which was taken from that of a deceased child. The Inquiry has been in contact with a close relative of that child in advance of the publication of this statement. John Dines is not currently a core participant in the Inquiry.

	==See also==		==See also==

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 * '''May 1990''' Burgoyne Road, Harringay. Dines rented a bedsit near Helen, she helped him decorate it and spent a lot of her time round there with him.<ref name = womenshour/>.
-* '''December 1990 - December 1991''' Tottenham, near Seven Sisters. John and Helen rented a flat together and shared this home for a year.<ref name = womenshour/> The house backed on to the family of Winston Silcott, who were campaigning at this time for his conviction to be overturned after he and others were framed by the police for the death of PC Blakelock at the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985 (see below).<ref>For more on the Broadwater Farm riots, see Stafford Scot, [http://tottenhamrights.org.uk/?p=58 Broadwater Farm revisited], 25 February 2014 (accessed March 2016) and Tottenham Rights, [http://www.tmg-uk.org/broadwater-farm-revisited/ Broadwater Farm revisited], The Monitoring Group website, 5 march 2014 (accessed March 2016)</ref>''
+* '''December 1990 - December 1991''' Tottenham, near Seven Sisters. John and Helen rented a flat together and shared this home for a year.<ref name = womenshour/> The house backed on to the family of Winston Silcott, who were campaigning at this time for his conviction to be overturned after he and others were framed by the police for the death of PC Blakelock at the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985 (see below).<ref>For more on the Broadwater Farm riots, see Stafford Scott, [http://tottenhamrights.org.uk/?p=58 Broadwater Farm revisited], 25 February 2014 (accessed March 2016) and Tottenham Rights, [http://www.tmg-uk.org/broadwater-farm-revisited/ Broadwater Farm revisited], The Monitoring Group website, 5 march 2014 (accessed March 2016)</ref>''
 * '''December 1991''' Helen and John moved out of the Tottenham flat to a caravan on a smallholding in Yorkshire. However, Dines left the following day for a short break in France, and then told Helen he had secured work on the Channel Tunnel, so he never lived at the address in Yorkshire. In hindsight this was part of his exit strategy (see below).

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	Four months later Helen confronted Dines in Australia, after she found out he worked at the Australian Graduate School of Policing & Security as course director of a training programme for Indian Police officers, which included targeting left wing groups.<ref name = islingt> Islington Against Police Spies, [http://undercoverresearch.net/2016/03/09/spycop-john-dines-confronted-in-australia/ Helen Steel confronts #spycop John Dines in Australia], 9 March 2016 (accessed March 2016)</ref>		Four months later Helen confronted Dines in Australia, after she found out he worked at the Australian Graduate School of Policing & Security as course director of a training programme for Indian Police officers, which included targeting left wing groups.<ref name = islingt> Islington Against Police Spies, [http://undercoverresearch.net/2016/03/09/spycop-john-dines-confronted-in-australia/ Helen Steel confronts #spycop John Dines in Australia], 9 March 2016 (accessed March 2016)</ref>
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		+	'''''Note!''' This is a preliminary profile, we have not spoken to a lot of people yet, [mailto:evel@undercoverresearch.net do get in touch] if you have more detail''.

	'''Also see:'''		'''Also see:'''