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This article is part of the Undercover Research Portal at Powerbase - investigating corporate and police spying on activists



Part of a series on
undercover police officers
'HN30'
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Alias: unknown
Deployment: 'last period of existence of SDS'
Unit:
Targets:
back office / management

HN30 is the cipher given to a former officer with the Special Demonstration Squad, serving as back office / management

  • For details of the N-numbers cipher system see the N officers page.

In the Undercover Policing Inquiry

  • 11 May 2018, directed that anonymity applications for HN18 were to be filed by 31 May 2018 for both the MPS legal team and the Designated Lawyers team.[1]
  • 21 June 2018: the Chair of the Inquiry, John Mitting, indicated he was minded to restrict the real name of HN30, there being no cover name.[2][3] The Explanatory Note from the Counsel to the Inquiry said an open application would be published in due course and a date set for any responses to the 'Minded To' note and added 'As this is not an UCO, any cover name will be considered at the document redaction stage'.[4]

Mitting wrote in his 'minded to' of June 2018:[3]

HN30 was a cover officer in the last years of existence of the Special Demonstration Squad. Performance of her duties as such did not and does not expose her to any risk of harm. For reasons particular to some of the undercover officers for whom she provided cover, a significant part of her evidence will have to be given in closed session, in any event. But for the matter referred to below, there would have been no reason why she should not give public evidence about the remainder of her duties in her own name.8.During her police career, she participated in an operation which did give rise to a risk to her safety. To an extent that cannot be quantified now, that risk, although small,remains. It is not necessary to run it, to permit the Inquiry to fulfil its terms of reference.She will give evidence about performance of her Special Demonstration Squad duties,except that which has to be given in closed session, in public under her cypher. Nothing of value will be lost by her doing so. In those circumstances, the interference in her right to respect for an aspect of her private life -her physical integrity -which would be caused by publication of her real name would not be justified under Article8(2) of the European Convention.

A closed note also accompanied the above.


Notes