EN507

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'EN507'
Alias:	unknown
Deployment:	1990s
Role:	undercover

EN507 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. They are a serving police officer as of 2017. 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.

• For the EN cipher system see EN officers page.

As a police officer

As of 2017 a serving police officer who remained available to his force for deployment as an undercover.

In the Undercover Policing Inquiry

• 2 May 2018: Mitting minded to restrict real and cover names, writing:

EN507 is a serving police officer and has undertaken undercover operations w hich put safety at risk. The continued ability of the police service to deploy EN507 in undercover operations is of public value. Publication of the cover name would substantially impair the undertaking of such operations. It is not in the public interest to do so.

Further, publication of either real or cover name would interfere with the right of EN507 to respect for private and family life and would not be justified...

• 9 July 2018: Inquiry releases open / gisted versions of the restriction order application, witness statement and supplementary personal statement for the officer and Mitting directed that any submissions in response to these applications were to be made by 20 July 2018.

• 30 October 2018: Mitting rules to restrict both real and cover names, writing:

The submissions assert that there is no reference in the 'Minded to' note to any risk of physical harm. There is: "EN507 is a serving police officer and has undertaken undercover operations which put safety at risk." It is correct that that assessment was based on EN507's account, which I have no reason to disbelieve. I do not accept that the public interest in the disclosure of the cover name of EN507 outweighs the public interest in the continued ability of the police service to deploy EN507 in undercover operations of public value, for the reasons explained in the closed note which accompanied the 'Minded to' note.