Confidential Intelligence Unit
The Confidential Intelligence Unit is a unit set up by the Association of Chief Police Officers to monitor 'domestic extremism'.[1]
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Role
The job description for the head of the Confidential Intelligence Unit states that this individual would "manage the covert intelligence function for domestic extremism" and "make a significant contribution to the overall performance of the police service of England and Wales and the national Domestic Extremism units in reducing or removing the threat, criminality and public disorder that arises from domestic extremism in England and Wales specifically, and the UK generally."[2]
Domestic extremism is not defined in the document but is divided into a number of categories:
- Animal Rights Extremism
- Environmental Extremism
- Extreme Right Wing
- Extreme Left Wing
- Emerging Threats[3]
Press reports highlighted the breadth of interpretation to which these categories were open:
- Targets will include environmental groups involved in direct action such as Plane Stupid, whose supporters invaded the runway at Stansted Airport in December.
- The unit also aims to identify the ring-leaders behind violent demonstrations such as the recent anti-Israel protests in London, and to infiltrate neo-Nazi groups, animal liberation groups and organisations behind unlawful industrial action such as secondary picketing.[4]
Funding and finances
People
Affiliations
Subsidiaries
Publications
Contact details, Resources, Notes
Contact
- Address:
- Phone:
- Fax:
- Website:
External Resources
Notes
- ↑ Role Profile (word document), Association of Chief Police Officers, accessed 10 February 2009.
- ↑ Role Profile (word document), Association of Chief Police Officers, accessed 10 February 2009.
- ↑ Role Profile (word document), Association of Chief Police Officers, accessed 10 February 2009.
- ↑ Secret police unit set up to spy on British 'domestic extremists, by Jason Lewis, MailOnline, 7 February 2009.
