Covert Human Intelligence Sources NEW

The 'Unlovely' Face of Police Work

Editor Roger Billingsley, Foreword by Jon Murphy QPM

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Synopsis

A unique insight into the hidden world of informers and related aspects of covert and undercover policing.

Edited by Roger Billingsley, head of the Covert Policing Standards Unit at New Scotland Yard, this book is the first to look behind the scenes of this kind of police work since the authorities relaxed the rules on restricted information.

Contents

Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) covers such key matters as:

What is meant by CHIS
The legal framework
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA)
Inherent powers and the position at Common Law
‘Informers’ and ‘informants’
Working methods and oversight
Handlers, controllers and authorising officers
Dangers and risks
Human rights, proportionality and ‘necessity’
Corruption and ‘noble cause corruption’
Protection and the duty of care
Motives of informers

Official participation in crime: how far is it lawful?
Undercover officers: strains, duties and requirements
Records and management of information
Juvenile informers
Texts, public interest immunity and anonymity
Debriefing and human memory
The context of informer relationships
Ownership of intelligence and communications
A European perspective
General background, views and opinions

Contributors

Jonathan Lennon, Clive Harfield, Ben Fitzpatrick, John Potts, Kingsley Hyland OBE, John Buckley, Alisdair Gillespie and Michael Fishwick.

With a preface by John Grieve QPM and a Foreword by Jon Murphy QPM

Editor

Roger Billingsley has served for 32 years in the English police service, mainly within the field of criminal investigation. He was actively involved in the world of informers - as a handler, controller and authorising officer - and now heads London’s Metropolitan Police Service Covert Policing Standards Unit, dealing with every aspect of covert policing, including informers.

Review

'A welcome addition that has drawn together a series of chapters from leading police officers, lawyers and academics, on an area of police work which can sometimes be ambiguous, occasionally uncharted, and where legislation presents the uninitiated with periods of bafflement and confusion. [The editor] does go someway to removing the mystery about this area of policing': Brief (the voice of Greater Manchester Police)