HN8
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HN8 is the cipher given to a former Special Demonstration Squad undercover officer who was deployed into one group in the 1980s/1990s.[1]
For the N cipher system see N officers page.
In the Undercover Policing Inquiry
Currently in their 60s, the inquiry Chair, John Mitting has indicated he is minded to grant a restriction order preventing release of either cover or real name of the officers, stating in April 2018:[1]
- The deployment was unremarkable. if the real or cover name of HN8 were to be published, there would be a real risk of interference in two aspects of the private life of HN8 - physical integrity and the ability to perform socially useful and remunerative work. The risk to physical integrity, which is real, if contingent, may arise from either members or associates of the group infiltrated. The risk to the ability to perform that work would arise from publicity in the traditional and non-traditional media. In neither case need the risk be run to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of references. ... It would also not be in the public interest to run them.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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 the Special Demonstrations Squad - 'Minded to' note 8, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 26 April 2018.
