Peter Collins (alias)

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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
'HN303'
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Alias: Peter Collins
Deployment: 1973-1977
Unit:
Targets:
Workers Revolutionary Party

Peter Collins is the cover name of a former Special Demonstration Squad undercover officer who infiltrated the Workers Revolutionary Party from 1973 to 1977.[1] They are also referred to by the cipher HN303 (for the N cipher system see N officers).

As an SDS undercover

Deployed into Worker's Revolutionary Party and reported on another. Resigned from Metropolitan Police at end of deployment to pursue another career. No threat from WRP, but former members / associates / sympathisers with the second group may do so.[2]

In the Undercover Policing Inquiry

  • 20 March 2018: directed that any applications for anonymity were to be filed by 28 March 2018 by MPS legal team, or 6 April for the Designated Lawyers Team.[3]
  • 27 March 2018: application to restrict real name made by Metropolitan Police.[4][5]
  • 26 Apr 2018: minded-to grant application to restrict real name; cover name to be published.[2]
  • 9 July 2018: provisional decision to restrict real name.[6]

Notes