EN officers

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Part of a series on the Undercover Policing Inquiry
EN officers list
Description:	A list of N & EN cyphers used to designate individual officers in the Inquiry and by Operation Elter

The EN cipher is a numbering system adopted circa 2017 in the Undercover Policing Inquiry to protect the anonymity of officers who served with the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU). The E stands for Elter, after the National Police Chiefs Council operation which took responsibility for co-ordinating police responses to the Inquiry as they relate to the NPOIU. In this, it mirrors the HN numbering system for officers with the Metropolitan Police Special Branch's Special Demonstration Squad, where the HN cipher is used for SDS officers, mirroring the MPS's Operation Herne.

In several cases officers who were active in both SDS and NPOIU have been assigned ciphers in both HN and EN systems.

• See also N officers for more details

This page lists the known EN ciphers to date and provides links to relevant documents or profiles.

Cypher	Name (italics for cover name only)	Position	Notes
EN1	Marco Jacobs	undercover	Deployed 2004-2009. Real name restricted. Had sexual relationships.
EN26	likely to come	unknown	Minded to refuse application to restrict real name with closed hearing on this to take place in late 2018. Reasons set out in closed note.
EN28	unknown	cover officer	Application to restrict real name refused. Cover officer for ARNI & NPOIU.
EN29	restricted	cover officer	Real name will be restricted due to risk arising out of subsequent undercover work into serious crimed. Briefly deployed in a minor role as undercover, the cover name for which will not be released.
EN30	restricted	cover officer	Cover officer for over six years, including deployments of interest to the Inquiry. Real name will be restricted.
EN31	likely to come	cover officer	Cover officer for approximately six years, including for Mark Kennedy and EN34 Application to restrict real name refused.
EN32	Rod Richardson	Undercover	Real name will be restricted. Also given as N596.
EN33	restricted	undercover	Deployed in early years of NPOIU to groups that pose a 'real risk' to the officer. Mitting has ruled both real and cover names will be restricted.
EN34	Lynn Watson	undercover	Deployed into various groups 2003-2008. Minded to restrict real name. 9 July 2018: cover name to be confirmed in due course. Mitting: 'once pre-publication checks complete and cover names publised, an open application will be published and a date set for responding to my minded to decision to restrict the real name...'
EN35	to come	undercover	2 May 2018: closed hearing needed before decision on anonymity applications can be made - due to be heard before 5 July 2018. 9 July 2018: Mitting not yet reached a Minded To decision. 30 Oct 2018: minded to restrict real name but application to restrict cover name refused. in the ruling, Mitting stated: I am minded to make a restriction order in respect of the real name, for the following reasons. EN35 was deployed in circumstances which gave rise to a real risk to safety, which remains to an extent which cannot be quantified. Publication of the real name of EN35 would interfere with private and family life. The interference is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and so would not be justified...
EN36	restricted	undercover	Deployed for short period in mid-2000s. Mitting has ruled both real and cover names will be restricted as other deployments have given 'rise to a real threat to life and limb'.
EN37	to come	undercover	30 Oct 2018: application over cover name refused; minded to restrict real name, Mitting stating: I am minded to make a restriction order in respect of the real name, for the following reasons. EN37 was deployed in circumstances which gave rise to a real risk to safety, which remains to an extent which cannot be quantified. Publication of the real name of EN37 would interfere with private and family life. The interference is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference and so would not be justified...
EN38	restricted	undercover	Deployed into one group over several years, the group said to pose a real risk to safety of the officer. Both before and after their NPOIU deployment served undercover, as of 2018 a serving police officer.
EN39	restricted	undercover	Serving police officer including engaged in other undercover work; real and cover names both restricted.
EN40	restricted	undercover	Serving police officer including engaged in other undercover work; real and cover names both restricted.
EN41	restricted	Undercover	Serving police officer including engaged in other undercover work; real and cover names both restricted.
EN42	unknown	undercover	Serving police officer including engaged in other undercover work; real and cover names both restricted (Jan 2019: this was under review).
EN43	restricted	undercover	Served with NPOIU in last years of its existence; Mitting has ruled that both real and cover names will be restricted.
EN47	restricted	undercover	Real and cover names both restricted; engaged in other undercover work before and after their several year deployment with the NPIOU.
EN48	restricted	undercover	Real and cover names both restricted; engaged in other undercover work before and after their several year deployment with the NPIOU, though no longer a serving police officer.
EN49	restricted	cover officer	Cover name will be restricted. Cover officer for majority of NPOIU's existence "principally for two undercover officers, one of whose cover names I have refused to restrict. Before then EN49 performed duties which, if disclosed, would give rise to a risk to life. The risk of that happening is not high, but it cannot be run. For that reason, a restriction order in respect of the real name of EN49 must be made".
EN50	likely to come	cover officer	Minded to release real name with closed hearing on this to be held in late 2018. Cover officer for NPOIU "towards the end of it existence. The undercover officer for whom EN50 was the cover officer was deployed for a short time into a group whose members pose no threat to the safety of EN50. EN50 can give evidence about the discharge of this duty and about the discharge of his/her duties generally and the management of the undercover unit in his/her real name without putting his/her safety at risk. There is likely to be some passing interest on the part of the traditional and non-traditional media in EN50's evidence, insufficient to cause any significant interference in his/her right and that of EN50's family to respect for their private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention. EN50's own concerns about the impact on both safety and private and family life are not objectively justified."
EN51	resticted	cover officer	Real name will be restricted. Cover officer for NPOIU "in the last years of its existence. The evidence which EN51 can give about the discharge of those duties is likely to be of significant interest to the Inquiry. But for the factor referred to below I would have required the evidence to be given in the real name of EN51, without protective measures. 20. Other duties performed by EN51 for police bodies other than the National Public Order Intelligence Unit did give rise to a real risk to life and physical safety. Those risks remain. Whether or not Articles 2 and 3 of the European Convention are engaged, they must not be run. Even if the risks fall to be assessed under Article 8, running them would not be justified under Article 8(2)."
EN52	likely to come	cover officer	Seconded 2005-2006 to NPOIU where cover officer for an unsuccessful and questionable undercover deployment; also involved in the winding up of the SDS. Same as N367.
EN53	resticted	cover officer	Real name will be restricted. Seconded NPOIU 2009-2011, where cover officer for two undercovers. Mitting wrote: "For reasons explained in the open and closed 'Minded to' note dated 2 May 2018, I am minded to make restriction orders in respect of both the real and cover names of both officers. The risk posed by members of the targeted groups to the safety of EN53 is negligible. However, other police duties,performed outside the National Public Order Intelligence Unit have given rise to risks to safety , which cannot be precisely quantified, but remain. Those risks are explained in the closed note which accompanies these reasons. Further, publication of the real name of EN53 would interfere with the current and future performance of work by EN53 which it is not in the public interest to interrupt. To do so would also amount to a disproportionate interference in the right of EN53 to respect for aspects of private life - physical integrity and the ability to perform useful paid work - which would not be justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention. Careful thought will need to be given about the manner in which the evidence of EN53 and the two undercover officers is to be provided or given."
EN54	likely to come	Temporary head of undercover operations 2003-2004.	Minded to refuse application to restrict real name with closed hearing on this to take place in late 2018. Temporary head for nine months. Mitting wrote: "With one possible exception, no threat to EN54's physical safety arising from the performance of these duties has been identified. For reasons explained in the closed note which accompanies these reasons, I am unconvinced that even the possible exception gives rise to a real risk to EN54's physical safety. The evidence which EN54 may be able to give about the discharge of his/her duties for the National Public Order Intelligence Unit islikely to attract the attention of traditional and non-traditi onal media and is likely to interfere, for a short period, with EN54's right and that of his/her family to respect for their private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention. I am not persuaded that there is any greater risk of interference by others. The risk assessor has drawn attention to the "Contrainfo" post referred to in the case of EN31 above. I do not believe that this gives rise to any greater risk to EN54 than it does EN31. I am satisfied that the need for a public official performing a significant managerial role in one of the units under specific investigation to give evidence publicly in his/her own name about the discharge of those duties justifies any interference in his/her right to respect for private and family life under Article 8(2)."
EN74	restricted	undercover	Served on other undercover work against serious and organised crime. Real and cover name restricted.
EN287	DCI Richard May	NDEU manager	No cover name; restriction order application over real name refused, with Mitting writing: In the course of a 30-year police career, which ended in 2013, EN287 was a Detective Chief Inspector seconded to the National Domestic Extremism Unit, the successor unit to the [NPOIU]. He had a managerial role. He played a part in the investigation by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary into the activities of Mark Kennedy. In this context, he was identified in a Guardian article on 8 November 2012. None of these activities put him or his family at risk of harm or of anything more than passing media interest. This may be unwelcome to him and them, but is outweighed by the legitimate interest which the public has in his performance of his duty in a senior and responsible public office. In respect of this office, the starting presumption that evidence given by such a person about such duties should be given in his own name is not displaced. The Guardian article of 8 Nov 2012. 9 July 2018: Mitting minded to refuse to restrict the officer's real name. 30 Oct 2018: Mitting refuses application to restrict real name:
EN288	restricted	undercover	Real and cover names restricted.
EN289	unknown	undercover? / other	Real name restricted with application over cover name to be determined later, Mitting writing: EN289 undertook ad hoc deployments for the Animal National Rights Index/the National Public Order Intelligence Unit in the late 1990s, attending and reporting on approximately 6 marches. EN289 was instructed to, and did, research and obtain the identity of a deceased child. The nature of the deployments was such that EN289 did not have to use it. Save in one respect, the information and evidence which EN289 could provide is of peripheral relevance to the Inquiry.
EN291	restricted	Authorising officer, not with NPIOU	Application to restrict real name granted. Mitting wrote: EN291 was not seconded to the [NPOIU], but did write authorisations under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 for the deployment of EN327 (HN66) and performed cover officer duties for EN32 and EN508 in 2002-03. EN291 was not deployed as an undercover officer. There is no risk to EN291's safety from those encountered by the three undercover officers. There is some risk of unwelcome attention from traditional and nontraditional media. EN291 was diagnoed by Dr. Busuttil in April 2017 as suffering from a chronicmental illness for a number of years which required treatment. "In his opinion disclosure of EN291's true identity would exacerbate his/her chronic mental ill ness and may increase the risk of suicidal ideation. I have asked for confirmation that, as of September 2018, the position remains unchanged. It is not necessary to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference that the evidence which EN291 can provide is given under his/her real name. EN291 will give evidence in public, albeit under his/her cypher. EN291's duties for the National Public Order Intelligence Unit did not require him/her to interact with any member of the public. Publication of EN291's real name would not, therefore, prompt any evidence from them. In those circumstances, the interference in EN29's right to respect for his/her private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention would not be justified under Article 8(2).
EN327	Dave Jones	undercover	Same as HN66. Real name restricted. Deployed against London Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action (Drax) 2005-2007 for SDS, but against the WOMBLES for six months in 2001, using the same alias.
EN407	Likely to come	cover officer	Minded to refuse application to restrict real name with closed hearing on this to take place in late 2018. Mitting wrote: EN407 acted as a cover officer for EN34 ("Lynn Watson") in 2002 and 2003. Publication of EN407's real name would not give rise to any risk to his or her safety arising from those duties. Nor would it give rise to risks to EN407's safety arising from other police duties performed by EN407 during his/ her police career. Publication of EN407's real name will undoubtedly give rise to transient in terest from traditional and non-traditional media, which will be unwelcome to EN407. The limited interference with EN407's right and that of his/her family to respect for their private and family life is a price which must be paid to permit EN34's deployment and its management to be publicly scrutinised. It is justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention . I am satisfied that the risk of any other form of intrusion is negligible.
EN506	restricted	unknown	Real name restricted. Mitting wrote: EN506 performed a necessary and important administrative duty in relation to the deployment of EN40, which gives rise to no risk to the safety of EN506. EN506 is a serving police officer who has performed duties which, if the real name were to be disclosed, would give rise to real risks to life and limb. Further, EN506 continues to perform valuable police duties which would be compromised if the real name were to be disclosed. It is not in the public interest that should happen... Interference with the right of EN506 to respect for an aspect of private and family life - physical integrity - would not be justified...
EN507	restricted	undercover	Serving police officer in 2017; real and cover names to be restricted,
EN508	cover name to come	undercover	Application to restrict cover name refused; real name will be restricted. Deployed 2002-2004 into a number of groups on intermittent basis, none of the member of which pose a 'real risk' to the safety of EN508. Mitting wrote: "There is a strong sterile corridor between cover and real name. Even if it were to be breached, the worst likely consequence is unwelcome, but transient, attention from traditional and non-traditional media. It is possible that publication of the cover name might prompt worthwhile evidence from those encountered by EN508. The limited interference with the right to respect for private and family life, if any, which publication of the cover name might cause is justified by the need to take the opportunityto try to obtain such evidence. There is no need to expose EN508 to media attention or to risk more serious intrusions into private life by publishing the real name. Such interference would not be justified under Article 8(2) of the European Convention.
EN808	restricted	cover officer	2011-2013 served with the 'successor unit' to the NPOIU; real and cover names restricted.
EN1001	restricted	other	Real and cover names to be restricted; his role was described by Mitting as: EN1001 was not seconded to the [NPOIU], but performed a peripheral supporting role in one operation for a short time in the late 2000s.

Process in Undercover Policing Inquiry

• 2 May 2018: Mitting issues a 'Minded To' note in relation to restriction orders made by officers who had served with the National Public Order Intelligence Unit.

• 9 July 2018: open application and evidence relating to 17 of the NPOIU applications released. with directions that any submissions in response to these applications were to be made by 20 July 2018.