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-{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name='N81'|Alias=unknown|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png|Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1996-ca. 2001/2002|Targets=Black &amp; family justice campaigns}}
+{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name='N81'|Alias=''Dave Hagan''|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png|Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1996-2001|Targets=Black &amp; family justice campaigns, Movement for Justice; Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy.}}
 In June 2014, the [[Independent Police Complaints Commission]] (IPCC) started an investigation into [[Richard Walton]], [[Bob Lambert]] and [[Colin Black]] for their involvement in setting up a meeting between Walton and ‘[[N81]]’, an undercover officer infiltrating a group working with the Lawrence family on their Justice for Stephen campaign. At that point in time, in August 1998, Walton was with the [[Lawrence Review Team]], a select group of trusted officers tasked with preparing a response of then Commissioner [[Paul Condon]] to the [[Macpherson Inquiry]] into the Stephen Lawrence murder and the police response.
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 For both Ellison and the related work of [[Operation Herne]] the investigation was hampered by an apparent policy within the SDS of not keeping records, which made them reliant on interviews in many cases<ref>Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stephen-lawrence-independent-review The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review], ''UK Government'', 6 March 2014, Vol. 1, p.201</ref> and thus on what police officers involved remembered - or chose to remember.
 This page looks at the chain of command of the SDS in 1998, trying to establish who might be caught up in the IPCC investigation; corrections and additions [mailto:contact@undercoverresearch.net welcome].

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-{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name='N81'|Alias=''Dave Hagan''|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png|Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1996-2001|Targets=Black &amp; family justice campaigns, Movement for Justice; Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy.}}
+{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name='N81'|Alias=unknown|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png|Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1996-ca. 2001/2002|Targets=Black &amp; family justice campaigns}}
 In June 2014, the [[Independent Police Complaints Commission]] (IPCC) started an investigation into [[Richard Walton]], [[Bob Lambert]] and [[Colin Black]] for their involvement in setting up a meeting between Walton and ‘[[N81]]’, an undercover officer infiltrating a group working with the Lawrence family on their Justice for Stephen campaign. At that point in time, in August 1998, Walton was with the [[Lawrence Review Team]], a select group of trusted officers tasked with preparing a response of then Commissioner [[Paul Condon]] to the [[Macpherson Inquiry]] into the Stephen Lawrence murder and the police response.
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 For both Ellison and the related work of [[Operation Herne]] the investigation was hampered by an apparent policy within the SDS of not keeping records, which made them reliant on interviews in many cases<ref>Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stephen-lawrence-independent-review The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review], ''UK Government'', 6 March 2014, Vol. 1, p.201</ref> and thus on what police officers involved remembered - or chose to remember.
 This page looks at the chain of command of the SDS in 1998, trying to establish who might be caught up in the IPCC investigation; corrections and additions [mailto:contact@undercoverresearch.net welcome].

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-{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name='N81'|Alias=unknown|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png|Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1996-ca. 2001/2002|Targets=Black &amp; family justice campaigns}}
+{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name='N81'|Alias=''Dave Hagan''|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png|Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1996-2001|Targets=Black &amp; family justice campaigns, Movement for Justice; Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy.}}
 In June 2014, the [[Independent Police Complaints Commission]] (IPCC) started an investigation into [[Richard Walton]], [[Bob Lambert]] and [[Colin Black]] for their involvement in setting up a meeting between Walton and ‘[[N81]]’, an undercover officer infiltrating a group working with the Lawrence family on their Justice for Stephen campaign. At that point in time, in August 1998, Walton was with the [[Lawrence Review Team]], a select group of trusted officers tasked with preparing a response of then Commissioner [[Paul Condon]] to the [[Macpherson Inquiry]] into the Stephen Lawrence murder and the police response.
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 For both Ellison and the related work of [[Operation Herne]] the investigation was hampered by an apparent policy within the SDS of not keeping records, which made them reliant on interviews in many cases<ref>Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stephen-lawrence-independent-review The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review], ''UK Government'', 6 March 2014, Vol. 1, p.201</ref> and thus on what police officers involved remembered - or chose to remember.
 This page looks at the chain of command of the SDS in 1998, trying to establish who might be caught up in the IPCC investigation; corrections and additions [mailto:contact@undercoverresearch.net welcome].

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	In June 2014, the [[Independent Police Complaints Commission]] (IPCC) started an investigation into [[Richard Walton]], [[Bob Lambert]] and [[Colin Black]] for their involvement in setting up a meeting between Walton and ‘[[N81]]’, an undercover officer infiltrating a group working with the Lawrence family on their Justice for Stephen campaign. At that point in time, in August 1998, Walton was with the [[Lawrence Review Team]], a select group of trusted officers tasked with preparing a response of then Commissioner [[Paul Condon]] to the [[Macpherson Inquiry]] into the Stephen Lawrence murder and the police response.		In June 2014, the [[Independent Police Complaints Commission]] (IPCC) started an investigation into [[Richard Walton]], [[Bob Lambert]] and [[Colin Black]] for their involvement in setting up a meeting between Walton and ‘[[N81]]’, an undercover officer infiltrating a group working with the Lawrence family on their Justice for Stephen campaign. At that point in time, in August 1998, Walton was with the [[Lawrence Review Team]], a select group of trusted officers tasked with preparing a response of then Commissioner [[Paul Condon]] to the [[Macpherson Inquiry]] into the Stephen Lawrence murder and the police response.

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 This page looks at the chain of command of the SDS in 1998, trying to establish who might be caught up in the IPCC investigation; corrections and additions [mailto:contact@undercoverresearch.net welcome].
 * [[N81]]
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 * [[Lawrence Review Team]]
 == Background==

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 This page looks at the chain of command of the SDS in 1998, trying to establish who might be caught up in the IPCC investigation; corrections and additions [mailto:contact@undercoverresearch.net welcome].
-This page is one of series on N81 and the spying on the Stephen Lawrence campaign. Related pages:
+This page is one of series on N81 and the spying on the Stephen Lawrence campaign:
 * [[N81]]
-* [[N81: Profile from the Ellison Report]],
+* [[N81: Meeting with the Lawrence Review Team]]
-* [[N81: Meeting with the Lawrence Review Team]],
+* [[N81: File Notes SDS]]
-* [[N81: File Notes SDS]],
+* [[N81 in the Undercover Policing Inquiry]]
 == Background==

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 The IPCC did not to disclose their names on the grounds that they had not been identified in the Ellison Review (whereas Walton, Lambert and Black had been named). In response to questions the IPCC told ''The Guardian'' 'that in general, there are no hard and fast rules on whether it names individuals who are under investigation - sometimes they have, for example, such a senior rank that it would be in the public interest to identify them.'<ref>Rob Evans, [http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2015/jun/04/names-of-two-police-officers-under-investigation-in-alleged-stephen-lawrence-spy-plot-kept-secret Names of two police officers under investigation in alleged Stephen Lawrence spy plot kept secret], ''The Guardian'',  4 June 2015 (accessed June 2015)</ref>
 For both Ellison and the related work of [[Operation Herne]] the investigation was hampered by an apparent policy within the SDS of not keeping records, which made them reliant on interviews in many cases<ref>Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stephen-lawrence-independent-review The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review], ''UK Government'', 6 March 2014, Vol. 1, p.201</ref> and thus on what police officers involved remembered - or chose to remember.
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 ===N58===
-N58 was DCI and Lambert's immediate superior. His name was found in two essential documents written right after the meeting took place. The first is a detailed report of it, the [[N81: File Note by Bob Lambert|''File Note'']] by Bob Lambert, dated 18 August 1998. The document ends with praise from N58 as a postscript:
+[[N58]] was DCI and Lambert's immediate superior. His name was found in two essential documents written right after the meeting took place. The first is a detailed report of it, the [[N81: File Note by Bob Lambert|''File Note'']] by Bob Lambert, dated 18 August 1998. The document ends with praise from N58 as a postscript:
 ::An excellent meeting and a good example of the strides N81 has made over the last 12 months. N58 (SDS DCI).
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 == List of candidates for the IPCC investigation ==
-In the official SDS hierarchy, the most obvious people who should have known about the disputed garden meeting would be the head of SDS, N58 and Barry Moss as Commander of SDS. Both, however, were not involved in the day to day handling of their tasks related to the SDS. During this crucial period in 1998, Lambert was acting Squad Detective Chief Inspector, in fact leading the SDS, and Colin Black was acting Commander, de facto replacing his superior Barry Moss, the head of Special Branch.
+In the official SDS hierarchy, the most obvious people who should have known about the disputed garden meeting would be the head of SDS, [[N58]] and [[Barry Moss]] as Commander of SDS. Both, however, were not involved in the day to day handling of their tasks related to the SDS. During this crucial period in 1998, Lambert was acting Squad Detective Chief Inspector, in fact leading the SDS, and Colin Black was acting Commander, de facto replacing his superior Barry Moss, the head of Special Branch.
 On a side note - this means that Bob Lambert and Colin Black were in fact running the SDS without any further oversight - oversight that was almost non-existent to begin with. Also, Lambert was N81's handler, and at the same time directing himself in his role one level up.

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 * [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf The Ellison Review] Full title: The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review, Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case. Vol. 1. March 2014.
-* [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf| Operation Herne] Full title: Operation Herne, Report 2, Allegations of Peter Francis, March 2014.
+* [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf Operation Herne] Full title: Operation Herne, Report 2, Allegations of Peter Francis, March 2014.
 * Rob Evans, [http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2015/jul/02/police-facing-claims-that-senior-officers-knew-about-spying-on-stephen-lawrence-family Police facing claims that senior officers knew about spying on Stephen Lawrence family], ''The Guardian'', 2 July 2015.
 ==Notes==
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