Dave Evans (alias)
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Dave Evans is the alias of an undercover officer with the Special Demonstration Squad, who was deployed 1998 to 2005 against the Socialist Workers Party, London Animal Action & Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.[1]
He is also referred to by the cipher HN60 (for the N cipher system, see the N officers page).
In the Undercover Policing Inquiry
- 11 December 2017: directed that anonymity applications HN60 were to be filed by 20 December 2017 by the MPS legal team or 22 December for the Designated Lawyers team:[2]
- 25 January 2018: more time granted 'to provide the Chairman with information in order for him to make a decision'.[3][4]
- 22 March 2018: restriction order over cover name refused; Inquiry Chair, John Mitting, is minded to restrict real name, writing:[5]
- HN60 is a serving Metropolitan Police officer. HN60 was deployed between the late 1990s and the mid-2000s against two groups, via a third. The deployments were unremarkable. There is a low risk of violence from members or associates of the target groups. HN60's principal concern is the risk of harassment by them, concern which is not irrational. If it were to materialise, it would interfere significantly with the private and family life of HN60. It is not necessary to run that risk. The cover name of HN60 will be published and will permit members of the target groups and others to provide information and give evidence about the deployments. Publication of the real name of HN60 is not necessary to permit that to happen or to enable the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. In those circumstances, publication of the real name is neither proportionate nor justified...
- The closed note which accompanies these reasons sets out the reasons for refusing to make a restriction order in respect of the cover name of HN60. They include the need to permit members of target groups to provide information and give evidence about the deployments.
- 1 May 2018: cover name and target groups released.[1]
- 3 July 2018: Inquiry says Mitting is still minded to restrict the officer's real name[6] and publishes the open application (date 20 December 2017) to this effect from the Metropolitan Police.[7] It was also directed that any objections to Mitting's intention to grant the restriction order to be made by 20 July 2018.[8]
- 30 July 2018: final ruling that real and cover name cannot be published.[9]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Email to core participants, '20180501_UCPI_to_all_CPs_publishing_HN3_HN19_HN20_HN60_HN218_HN353', Undercover Research Group, 1 May 2018, referencing an update of the webpage UCPI.org.uk/cover-names.
- ↑ 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, 11 December 2017.
- ↑ Press Notice: Decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 25 January 2018.
- ↑ Sir John Mitting, 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 Special Demonstration Squad - 'Minded To' Note 4, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 25 January 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).
- ↑ Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad - November 2017, January 2018, March 2018 and April 2018 'Minded' to notes, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 3 July 2018.
- ↑ List of applications and evidence published on 03 July 2018, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 3 July 2018.
- ↑ Sir John Mitting, Restriction Order Applications by HN1, HN3, HN8, HN9, HN12, HN19, HN20, HN27, HN60. HN72, HN353 and HN355, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 3 July 2018.
- ↑ Sir John Mitting, Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad: Minded to note 12 and Ruling 10, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 30 July 2018.
