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Blackstones - Covert Investigation

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-Provides a practical introduction to covert policing law and the issues involved
-Includes the RIPA 2000 Codes of Practice and all other relevant legislation allowing easy access to key source material
-Chapters arranged thematically by investigative technique
-Includes discussions of the complex area of risk management models
-Provides a number of useful flowcharts as an aid to investigation planning and decision making

This new book provides a practical, introductory guide for anyone working in the area of covert investigation.

Covert Investigation: A Practical Guide for Investigators, contains all the relevant legislation, codes of practice and case-law relating to covert investigation methods and examines the issues that investigators need to consider when deploying such investigative tools, concentrating on the full implications of RIPA with regards to daily, routine policing activity.

This book considers each different aspect of covert investigation in turn, discussing statutory provision and introducing case-law alongside investigation management issues. It successfully demystifies an area of investigation and enforcement that has hitherto been poorly understood. It is intended to assist those planning and supervising investigations and those with a statutory obligation to sanction applications for authorised covert investigation or withhold such authority. It will help officers improve the quality of RIPA applications, ensure that applications for cover investigation are made only in appropriate circumstances, and to help investigators apply the law and procedure correctly in order to minimise procedural challenges at court.

Readership:
Police officers, investigators and enforcement officers employed by public bodies. Also prosecutors, private practice lawyers and police studies students.

Contents
Foreword by Professor John Grieve
Introduction
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
Appendix A. Extracts from the Police Act 1997 (Part III)
Appendix B. Extracts from the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (Parts I and II)
Appendix C. Extracts from Statutory Instruments pursuant to RIPA 2000
Appendix D. The Covert Surveillance Code of Practice
Appendix E. Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) Code of Practice
Appendix F. Interception of Communications Code of Practice
Appendix G. Flow-charts