National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Revision history

Eveline: /* Database of protesters */

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Database of protesters

Eveline: /* The future of NPOIU */

2016-05-09T12:55:00Z

The future of NPOIU

Eveline at 18:32, 18 February 2016

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Melissa Jones: /* Resources */

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Resources

Melissa Jones: /* Resources */ scribd doc link

2012-10-05T01:57:34Z

Resources: scribd doc link

Melissa Jones: /* Gathering intelligence on nuclear activists */ link to doc

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Gathering intelligence on nuclear activists: link to doc

Melissa Jones: /* Gathering intelligence on nuclear activists */

2012-10-03T01:18:43Z

Gathering intelligence on nuclear activists

Melissa Jones: add nukes activist story info/ nuke category

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add nukes activist story info/ nuke category

Melissa Jones at 01:02, 3 October 2012

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Melissa Jones at 01:01, 3 October 2012

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 ==Database==
 ===Database of protesters===
-'The Guardian'' discloses that the National Public Order Intelligence Unit, by far the biggest segment of this "domestic extremism" apparatus, has been compiling a database of protesters and campaign groups across the country since 1999.<ref name="Hirsch"> Rob Evans, Matthew Taylor, Afua Hirsch and Paul Lewis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/13/mark-kennedy-undercover-police-acpo?intcmp=239 Rein in undercover police units, says former DPP] ''The Guardian'', 13/01/11, accessed 24/01/11</ref>
+''The Guardian'' discloses that the National Public Order Intelligence Unit, by far the biggest segment of this "domestic extremism" apparatus, has been compiling a database of protesters and campaign groups across the country since 1999.<ref name="Hirsch"> Rob Evans, Matthew Taylor, Afua Hirsch and Paul Lewis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/13/mark-kennedy-undercover-police-acpo?intcmp=239 Rein in undercover police units, says former DPP] ''The Guardian'', 13/01/11, accessed 24/01/11</ref>
 The NPOIU has been described as "essentially a giant database of protest groups and protesters in the country."<ref>Rob Evans, Paul Lewis and Matthew Taylor, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/25/police-surveillance-protest-domestic-extremism How police rebranded lawful protest as 'domestic extremism'], guardian.co.uk, 25 October 2009.</ref>

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 According to NETCU's website
 :following reviews within ACPO TAM and a HMIC Value for Money Review, it was agreed by the ACPO TAM board to merge the three Domestic Extremism units into single national function under a lead force.<ref>NETCU website [http://www.netcu.org.uk/media/article.jsp?id=666&chkx=f01c90cfaf0f7717c6029b5aaec5e9c8 Media] 24/11/10, accessed 22/01/11</ref>
-The three "domestic-extremism' units in question are [[NPOIU]], [[NETCU]] and [[NDET]]. They currently answer to [[ACPO]].<ref name="Hirsch">Rob Evans, Matthew Taylor, Afua Hirsch and Paul Lewis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/13/mark-kennedy-undercover-police-acpo?intcmp=239
+The three "domestic-extremism' units in question are [[NPOIU]], [[NETCU]] and [[NDET]]. They answered to [[ACPO]] until that ceased to exist.<ref name="Hirsch">Rob Evans, Matthew Taylor, Afua Hirsch and Paul Lewis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/13/mark-kennedy-undercover-police-acpo?intcmp=239
 Rein in undercover police units, says former DPP] ''The Guardian'', 13/01/11, accessed 24/01/11</ref>
-The National Co-ordinator for Domestic Extremism, Detective Chief Superintendent [[Adrian Tudway]], is currently managing the merger said "The three domestic extremism units were set up at different times during a six year period, with the current economic climate and the need to maximise resources it makes sense to merge."
+The National Co-ordinator for Domestic Extremism, Detective Chief Superintendent [[Adrian Tudway]], is managed the merger and said in early 2011: "The three domestic extremism units were set up at different times during a six year period, with the current economic climate and the need to maximise resources it makes sense to merge."
-An article in ''The Guardian'' on the three "domestic extremism" units working under the direction of Detective Chief Superintendent [[Adrian Tudway]] states that
+An article in ''The Guardian'' on the three "domestic extremism" units working under the direction of Detective Chief Superintendent [[Adrian Tudway]] stated that
 :concerns have been growing about the accountability and subject to agreement they will be taken over by the Met under a "lead force" agreement – the same way the Met has overall command of national counter-terrorism operations.<ref name="Hirsch"/>

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 ==Resources==
 *Rob Edwards (in cooperation with Spinwatch), [http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/67-nuclear/5522-police-trying-to-neuter-anti-nuclear-protest Police trying to neuter anti-nuclear protest], 2 October 2012
-*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/108974932/Activism-and-Nuclear-New-Build-DECC-document-released-under-FOI Activism and Nuclear New Build: DECC document released under FOI to Spinwatch, 2012]
+*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/108974932/Activism-and-Nuclear-New-Build-DECC-document-released-under-FOI Activism and Nuclear New Build: DECC document released under FOI to Spinwatch, 2012], downloadable pdf on Scribd
 ==Notes==

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 ==Resources==
 *Rob Edwards (in cooperation with Spinwatch), [http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/67-nuclear/5522-police-trying-to-neuter-anti-nuclear-protest Police trying to neuter anti-nuclear protest], 2 October 2012
 ==Notes==

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 In 2012 freedom of information requests by Spinwatch revealed that the NPOIU had been gathering intelligence on activists to “manage the risk” that they pose to government plans to build new nuclear power stations. Journalist Rob Edwards reported that:
-:a document released by the [[Department of Energy and Climate Change]] reveals that the NPOIU briefed a meeting about “activism and nuclear new build” in Whitehall in June 2011. Present were government officials, three nuclear companies – [[EDF Energy]], [[Horizon]] and [[NuGeneration]] – and the [[Civil Nuclear Constabulary]], a specialist force for guarding nuclear power sites.
+:a [http://www.scribd.com/doc/108974932/Activism-and-Nuclear-New-Build-DECC-document-released-under-FOI document] released by the [[Department of Energy and Climate Change]] reveals that the NPOIU briefed a meeting about “activism and nuclear new build” in Whitehall in June 2011. Present were government officials, three nuclear companies – [[EDF Energy]], [[Horizon]] and [[NuGeneration]] – and the [[Civil Nuclear Constabulary]], a specialist force for guarding nuclear power sites.
 :Police officers from three areas where new nuclear stations are planned were also involved – Avon and Somerset (Hinkley Point), Suffolk (Sizewell) and North Wales (Wylfa). The purpose of the meeting was “to obtain an agreed understanding of the available intelligence on the risk to the new build programme from environmental activism".

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 ==Gathering intelligence on nuclear activists==
-In 2012 freedom of information requests by Spinwatch revealed that the NPOIU had been gathering intelligence on activists to “manage the risk” that they pose to government plans to build new nuclear power stations. Journalist Rob Edwards reported that"
+In 2012 freedom of information requests by Spinwatch revealed that the NPOIU had been gathering intelligence on activists to “manage the risk” that they pose to government plans to build new nuclear power stations. Journalist Rob Edwards reported that:
 :a document released by the [[Department of Energy and Climate Change]] reveals that the NPOIU briefed a meeting about “activism and nuclear new build” in Whitehall in June 2011. Present were government officials, three nuclear companies – [[EDF Energy]], [[Horizon]] and [[NuGeneration]] – and the [[Civil Nuclear Constabulary]], a specialist force for guarding nuclear power sites.
-:Police officers from three areas where new nuclear stations are planned were also involved – Avon and Somerset (Hinkley Point), Suffolk (Sizewell) and North Wales (Wylfa). The purpose of the meeting was “to obtain an agreed understanding of the available intelligence on the risk to the new build programme from environmental activism.”
 :Those present hoped “to identify any potential gaps in arrangements for managing the risk of direct action or protests at new build sites”. NPOIU’s presentation gave an “overview of the current situation and nature of the threat”.
 :NPOIU’s presentation has not been released so its conclusions are not known. There have been two protests at Hinkley Point in the last year involving hundreds of people, and a “mass trespass” is planned there on 8 October. There was also a demonstration at Wylfa in January 2012. <ref>Rob Edwards (in cooperation with Spinwatch), [http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/67-nuclear/5522-police-trying-to-neuter-anti-nuclear-protest Police trying to neuter anti-nuclear protest], 2 October 2012 </ref>
 ==Transferable skills and alliances: police and private security industry==

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 ''The Guardian'' reveals that he said that each undercover spy cost £250,000<ref name="Evans"/>. He was actively involved in the protest against [[E.ON]]'s coal-fire power station in Nottingham which, according to ''The Guardian'' was subject to "months of surveillance, cost ￡300,000 and resulted in the largest number of pre-emptive arrests of political activists in the UK"<ref>Paul Lewis and Nidhi Prakash, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/05/ratcliffe-coal-protesters-sentence?INTCMP=SRCH Ratcliffe coal protesters spared jail sentences] ''The Guardian'' 05/01/11, accessed 11/01/11</ref>.
+==Accountability: the case of Mark Kennedy / Stone==
-==Accountability: the Case of Mark Kennedy / Stone==
+The measures taken to avoid supplying information as to who these individuals are working for, as well as their remit, raises questions about accountability.
 ===Prosecution abandoned===
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 :The desire of police lobbyists is to frighten politicians from cutting their budgets, and, in the case of green protesters, to exaggerate the threat they pose to social order. It seems that [[ACPO]] and its [[Whitehall]] sponsors are aspiring to the realm of Conrad's The Secret Agent. They have a vested interest in fear. The spy and the rebel "come from the same basket … Revolution and legality are counter-moves in the same game, forms of idleness at bottom identical." It is the story of PC [[Mark Kennedy]]. <ref name="Jenkins"/>
 ==Transferable skills and alliances: police and private security industry==
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 ===Subsidiaries===
 *[[Confidential Intelligence Unit]]
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-[[Category:spooks]][[Category:UK Police Intelligence]]
+[[Category:Spooks]][[Category:UK Police Intelligence]][[Category:Nuclear Spin]

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-The '''National Public Order Intelligence Unit''', a national policing unit, is one of the three  "domestic extremism" units working under the direction of Detective Chief Superintendent [[Adrian Tudway]]. [[NETCU]],[[NPOIU]] (of which the [[CIU]] is a section) and [[NDET]] are the three units answering to [[ACPO]].  As the "national co-ordinator for domestic extremism" he commands about 100 staff and has a budget of about £9m a year.<ref name="Hirsch"> Rob Evans, Matthew Taylor, Afua Hirsch and Paul Lewis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/13/mark-kennedy-undercover-police-acpo?intcmp=239 Rein in undercover police units, says former DPP] ''The Guardian'', 13/01/11, accessed 24/01/11</ref>
+The '''National Public Order Intelligence Unit''', a national policing unit, is one of the three  "domestic extremism" units working under the direction of Detective Chief Superintendent [[Adrian Tudway]]. [[NETCU]], [[NPOIU]] (of which the [[CIU]] is a section) and [[NDET]] are the three units answering to [[ACPO]].  As the "national co-ordinator for domestic extremism" he commands about 100 staff and has a budget of about £9m a year.<ref name="Hirsch"> Rob Evans, Matthew Taylor, Afua Hirsch and Paul Lewis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/13/mark-kennedy-undercover-police-acpo?intcmp=239 Rein in undercover police units, says former DPP] ''The Guardian'', 13/01/11, accessed 24/01/11</ref>
 The [[National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit]] (NECTU) website describes its role as follows:
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 ==The future of NPOIU==
 According to NETCU's website
-: following reviews within ACPO TAM and a HMIC Value for Money Review, it was agreed by the ACPO TAM board to merge the three Domestic Extremism units into single national function under a lead force.<ref>NETCU website [http://www.netcu.org.uk/media/article.jsp?id=666&chkx=f01c90cfaf0f7717c6029b5aaec5e9c8 Media] 24/11/10, accessed 22/01/11</ref>
+:following reviews within ACPO TAM and a HMIC Value for Money Review, it was agreed by the ACPO TAM board to merge the three Domestic Extremism units into single national function under a lead force.<ref>NETCU website [http://www.netcu.org.uk/media/article.jsp?id=666&chkx=f01c90cfaf0f7717c6029b5aaec5e9c8 Media] 24/11/10, accessed 22/01/11</ref>
 The three "domestic-extremism' units in question are [[NPOIU]], [[NETCU]] and [[NDET]]. They currently answer to [[ACPO]].<ref name="Hirsch">Rob Evans, Matthew Taylor, Afua Hirsch and Paul Lewis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/13/mark-kennedy-undercover-police-acpo?intcmp=239
 Rein in undercover police units, says former DPP] ''The Guardian'', 13/01/11, accessed 24/01/11</ref>

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 ==Remit==
-In January 2011, ''The Guardian'' describes the NPOIU as
+In January 2011, ''The Guardian'' described the NPOIU as
 :Housed at a secret location in London, its official remit is "to gather, assess, analyse and disseminate intelligence and information relating to criminal activities in the United Kingdom where there is a threat of crime or to public order which arises from domestic extremism or protest activity".
 :Essentially it is pooling intelligence from special branch officers, uniformed surveillance teams and undercover officers that can be shared with police forces around the country.<ref name="Hirsch"> Rob Evans, Matthew Taylor, Afua Hirsch and Paul Lewis
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 The three "domestic-extremism' units in question are [[NPOIU]], [[NETCU]] and [[NDET]]. They currently answer to [[ACPO]].<ref name="Hirsch">Rob Evans, Matthew Taylor, Afua Hirsch and Paul Lewis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/13/mark-kennedy-undercover-police-acpo?intcmp=239
 Rein in undercover police units, says former DPP] ''The Guardian'', 13/01/11, accessed 24/01/11</ref>
 The National Co-ordinator for Domestic Extremism, Detective Chief Superintendent [[Adrian Tudway]], is currently managing the merger said "The three domestic extremism units were set up at different times during a six year period, with the current economic climate and the need to maximise resources it makes sense to merge."
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 He also stated that the retention of photographs taken by police [[Forward Intelligence Teams]] ([[FIT]]) teams follow the Statutory Code of Practice for the Management of Police Information (MOPI).<ref name="Netcu"/>
-==The Costs of Intelligence Gathering==
+==The costs of intelligence gathering==
 Kennedy, 'Flash', was exposed as a police officer having infiltrated the UK environment protest movement for 7 years. Kennedy is reported to be one of at least two undercover operatives working for the [[National Public Order Intelligence Unit]]<ref name="Evans">Rob Evans and Paul Lewis,  [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/09/undercover-office-green-activists?intcmp=122 Undercover officer spied on green activists] ''The Guardian'' 09/01/11, accessed 10/01/11</ref>.
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 The measures that are taken to avoid supplying information as to who these individuals are working for, as well as their remit, raises questions about accountability.
-===Prosecution Abandoned===
+===Prosecution abandoned===
 When details of Mark Kennedy's role within the protest planned against [[E.ON]]'s coal power fire station were required for the prosecution, ''The Guardian'' revealed that
 :the prosecutors unexpectedly abandoned the trial after they were asked to disclose classified details about the role the undercover officer played in organising and helping to fund the protest. "I have no doubt that our attempts to get disclosure about Kennedy's role has led to the collapse of the trial," said Mike Schwarz, a solicitor at the Bindmans law firm who represented the activists<ref name="Evans"/>.
-===More than a Peripheral Role===
+===More than a peripheral role===
 The Met could face pressure to explain the ethics of deploying an officer so deep undercover. It has been repeatedly criticised for its handling of protests. A Metropolitan police spokesman said: "We are not prepared to discuss the matter"<ref name="Evans"/>.
 Though occupying a key role in the organising (contributing to the planning of the actions) and logistics (providing transport and funds) of protest, Mark Kennedy was however finally exposed by activists who found a passport with his real name and confronted him, leading to a confession<ref name="Evans"/>.
 Legal documents suggest Kennedy's activities went beyond those of a passive spy, prompting questions as to whether his role in organising and helping to fund protests meant he turned into an agent provocateur, suggests the ''The Guardian''<ref name="Evans"/>.
 ===ACPO as a private company===
-Simon Jenkins evokes a number of reasons to be concerned at NPIOU being accountable to the private company [[ACPO]].
+Simon Jenkins outlines a number of reasons for concern at NPIOU being accountable to the private company [[ACPO]].
 :Kennedy's bosses in the NPOIU work for [[ACPO]]], but this is not what it seems. It is not, as its name suggests, the police officers' staff club, nor is it a public body of any sort. It is a private company, incorporated in 1997. It is sub-contracted by [[Whitehall]] to operate the police end of the government's counterterrorism and "anti-extremism" strategies. It is thus alongside [[MI5]], but even less accountable.<ref name="Jenkins"/>
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 ==Affiliations==
 *[[National Co-ordinator for Domestic Extremism]]
 *[[ACPO]]
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 *[[Confidential Intelligence Unit]]
 ==Notes==