EN47
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EN47 is the cipher given to a former undercover officer of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit who was deployed in the 2000s against unknown targets. Since leaving the NPOIU they continued doing undercover work for other operations. Sir John Mitting, chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, has ruled that the Inquiry will restrict the officers real and cover name in the Inquiry.[1][2]
- For the EN cipher system see EN officers page.
As a police officer
Prior to being seconded to the NPOIU, EN47 had done undercover work in serious and organised crime. One such deployment lead to him and other undercovers receiving death threats. In this period gave evidence in court twice, using their pseudonym.[3]
Seconded to the NPOIU for a number of years and targeted several groups while undercover. People who they targeted while undercover for the NPOIU have photographs of EN47. In this they used a different pseudonym to the one they had used for other undercover work.[3]
Following the NPOIU, they continued to do undercover work, including into 'an organised crime group with links to violence and firearms'.[3]
In the Undercover Policing Inquiry
- 11 Dec 2017: application to restrict real and cover names made to the Inquiry.[4]
- EN47 is a serving police officer undertaking valuable undercover duties. For reasons explained in the closed note which accompanies this note, publication of the real or cover name of EN47 would put at risk the ability of EN47 to perform those duties. It is not in the public interest that that risk should be run.
- 9 July 2018: Inquiry releases open / gisted versions of the restriction order application, personal witness statement and risk assessment for the officer[7] and Mitting directed that any submissions in response to these applications were to be made by 20 July 2018.[8]
- 30 October 2018: Mitting rules to restrict both real and cover names, writing:[9]
- I am satisfied that EN47 has been and is engaged on undercover deployments and that disclosure of the cover name while deployed in the [NPOIU] would put the ability of EN47 to undertake those duties at risk. The forced withdrawal of EN47 from those duties would have an immediate impact on policing which would not be in the public interest. The public interest in their performance by EN4 7 outweighs any likely benefit to the public interest which might result from the publication of the [NPOIU] cover name.
Notes
- ↑ Sir John Mitting, Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units 'Minded to' Note, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 2 May 2018.
- ↑ Sir John Mitting, Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units Ruling 1 and 'Minded to' 2, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 30 October 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 EN47 Gisted Risk Assessment, original assessment made 21 March 2018 by Richard Clarke; gisted version released by Undercover Policing Inquiry 9 July 2018.
- ↑ Open preliminary submissions on behalf of EN47 in suppport of an application for a restriction order, National Police Chiefs Council, 11 December 2017, gisted version released by Undercover Policing Inquiry 9 July 2018.
- ↑ Steven Gray, Counsel to the Inquiry's Explanatory Note to accompany the Chairman's 'Minded To' Note 12 in respect of applications for restrictions over the real and cover name of officers of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 2 May 2018.
- ↑ Sir John Mitting, Applications for restriction orders in respect of the real and cover names of officers of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units 'Minded to' Note, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 2 May 2018.
- ↑ NPOIU 'Minded to' officer's list of documents - published 09 July 2018, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 9 July 2018. See also associated press note: Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications: National Public Order Intelligence Unit & Special Demonstration Squad, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 9 July 2018.
- ↑ Sir John Mitting, Applications for restriction orders in respect of real and cover names of officers of the Special Operations Squad and the Special Demonstration Squad and of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - Directions, 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 National Public Order Intelligence Unit and its predecessor/successor units Ruling 1 and 'Minded to' 2, Undercover Policing Inquiry, 30 October 2018.
