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2 results foundAuthor: Bronitt, Simon Title: The Social Implications of Covert Policing Summary: This volume is based on a selection of papers presented at a workshop held in April 2009 at the Australian National University in Canberra. The workshop canvassed a wide range of topics addressing the application of covert surveillance techniques in policing and their social implications. Participants were drawn from a range of professions and disciplines including policing and intelligence studies; criminology and criminal justice; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); law, ethics, human rights and public policy. As a group, participants recognised the need to equip law enforcement with the right tools for the job, though the corollary was the consensus that new and emerging technologies need to be regulated effectively. The discussion also underscored the importance of not limiting debate about reform to technical or technological perspectives. Wide normative concerns (drawn from a legal, human rights, public policy or ethical perspectives) must also be addressed. Details: Wollongong, Australia: University of Wollongong Press, Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention, Faculty of Law, 2010. 193p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 8, 2011 at: http://www.ceps.edu.au/files/The%20Social%20Implications%20of%20Covert%20Policing.pdf Year: 2010 Country: International URL: http://www.ceps.edu.au/files/The%20Social%20Implications%20of%20Covert%20Policing.pdf Shelf Number: 120911 Keywords: Covert PolicingCovert SurveillanceSurveillance Techniques |
Author: Gormally, Brian Title: The Policing You Don't See: Covert Policing and the Accountability Gap: Five years on from the transfer of 'national security' primacy to MI5 Summary: Covert policing - the practices of communication interception, surveillance, the use of informants and undercover operations - was used extensively during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Covert policing is argued to have prolonged the conflict and did lasting and immense damage to the rule of law. After the signing of the peace agreement, the Northern Ireland police service undertook large-scale reforms which were designed to prevent the recurrence of such abuses. Yet the secret Security Service - implicated in past abuses - has not yet undertaken such reformation but has been put in charge of a highly important area of mainstream policing. MI5 maintains primacy in covert 'national security' policing and gives 'strategic direction' to the PSNI in this area. Despite its large role in policing and its lack of reform, governmental oversight of MI5 is limited and ineffective. Limited additional accountably measures were promised in the St. Andrews Agreement but some of the most significant commitments, such as those to publish policy frameworks, have not been honoured. Instead, MI5 has been given control of one of the most sensitive areas of policing in Northern Ireland, operating undercover, without having been reformed, and without an accountability structure. This report develops a human rights based framework from international standards and the Patten Report and uses it to analyse past and present covert policing practice. This report reflects on evidence of the involvement of police informants in serious criminality, which led to recommendations to improve legality and accountability of covert policing. However, since primacy in 'national security' policing was given to MI5 five years ago (2007), the research finds that there is a growing "accountability gap" over a large part of policing. This report explains that the UK level oversight of MI5 is plainly inadequate and that the local mechanisms that hold the PSNI to account are evaded by the Security Service. It argues that this situation falls woefully short of international standards and has the capacity to undermine confidence in policing as a whole. Details: Belfast: University of Ulster, Transnational Justice Institute, 2013. 115p. Source: Internet Resource: Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper No. 13-07: Accessed July 29, 2015 at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2362759 Year: 2013 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2362759 Shelf Number: 136257 Keywords: Covert PolicingPolice AccountabilityPolice LegitimacyPolice Surveillance |