HN91
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HN91 is the cipher given to a former undercover officer with the Special Demonstration Squad who was deployed against two groups in the 'last period of existence of the SDS'.[1]
In the Undercover Policing Inquiry
- 19 April 2018: directed that applications for HN91 were to be filed by 24 April 2018 by MPS legal team, or 27 April for the Designated Lawyers team.[2]
- 21 June 2018: Application over real and cover name made which the Chair of the Inquiry, John Mitting, is minded to grant.[3] Open material to be published in due course to allowing responses to Mitting's position.[4] In his 'Minded To' note, Mitting wrote:[1]
- HN91 was deployed against two groups in the last period of existence of the Special Demonstration Squad. None f the members of the target groups posed or pose a threat to the safety of HN91. But for the factor referred to below, I would not have made a restriction order in respect of the cover name. Evidence about the deployments must be received to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference. Some, at least, of it will have to be given in closed session.
- HN91 is a serving police officer, performing a valuable and sensitive role. If the cover name were to be published, there is a high risk that the real identity would be disclosed, in which event, HN91 could not continue to perform current duties. The risk of disclosure, by itself, would be likely to lead senior officers to transfer HN91 to other duties. It would not be in the public interest that this should occur. That interest outweighs the interests of the Inquiry in receiving public evidence about all aspects of the deployments of HN91.
- Publication of the real name of HN91 is, in any event, not required to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference.
There was also a closed note accompanying this.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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 11, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 21 June 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 Demonstrations Squad: Directions, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 19 April 2018.
- ↑ Press notice - 'Minded to' decisions relating to anonymity applications: Special Demonstration Squad, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 21 June 2018.
- ↑ Counsel to the Inqury's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 9 and Ruling 8 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and Special Demonstration Squad: Update as at 21 June 2018, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 21 June 2018.
