Covert Investigation

This new edition continues to provide a practical guide for anyone working in covert investigation. Containing new case law and updates to all the relevant legislation and codes of practice, the book is designed to help officers improve the quality of RIPA applications and ensure they are made in appropriate circumstances.

1: Covert investigation in context; 2: Directed surveillance; 3: Intrusive surveillance; 4: Interference with property or wireless telegraphy and entry onto land; 5: Covert investigation and computers; 6: Examining mobile phones; 7: Communications data; 8: Interception of communications; 9: Covert human intelligence sources; 10: Covert investigation abroad; 11: Risk Management; APPENDICES; A: Relevant Extracts of Part III Police Act 1997 as Amended; B: Extracts from the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 as Amended; C: Extracts from Statutory Instruments Issued Pursuant to RIPA 2000; D: The Covert Surveillance Code of Practice; E: Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) Code of Practice; F: Interception of Communications Code of Practice