Download or read book The Law of Covert Investigation written by Denis Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should telephone conversations covertly recorded be admissible evidence in court? Is an employer allowed to read their employees email in order to detect possible misconduct? Which government departments are authorised to use covert surveillance methods and informants?Covert investigation allows evidence to be gathered without the co-operation and awareness of those being investigated. Methods such as the interception of communications, including email, surveillance and the use of informants are commonplace but invariably throw up important issues concerning ethics, human rights, privacy and permissibility of evidence. The recent growth in legislation and codes of practice regulating this investigative technique have done little to quell the controversy surrounding its methodology. The government's 'war on terrorism' has introduced new and provocative arguments in favour of further legislation in the area.This timely work examines all aspects of the law as it relates to covert investigation and pays particular attention to surveillance law and the admissibility of evidence. It is an invaluable resource for police investigators, lawyers and researchers in the fields of criminal justice and police powers.
Download or read book Covert Investigation written by Clive Harfield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading 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.
Download or read book Covert Operations written by Claire C. Carter and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tragedies of September 11, 2001, contemporary artists such as Ahmed Basiony, Thomas Demand, Harun Farocki, Jenny Holzer, Trevor Paglen and Taryn Simon urgently pursued the complicated intersection of freedom, security, secrecy, power and violence. Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns features 13 international artists who have collected and revealed unreported information on subjects ranging from classified military sites and reconnaissance satellites to border and immigration surveillance, terrorist profiling, narcotics and human trafficking, illegal extradition flights and nuclear weapons. Among the other contributing artists are Anne-Marie Schleiner, Luis Hernandez Galvan, David Taylor and Kerry Tribe.
Download or read book Covert Investigation Fifth Edition written by Clive Harfield and published by Blackstone's Practical Policing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide contains all the 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 implications of RIPA.
Download or read book Informants and Undercover Investigations written by Dennis G. Fitzgerald and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informants are an invaluable, often instrumental aspect of criminal investigations, but they do present certain management issues. In the necessarily clandestine world they inhabit, the imposition of institutional control presents unique challenges. Lack of training and communication among law enforcement professionals tend to ensure the same error
Download or read book Covert Investigation 6e written by Clive Harfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining all the key issues to consider when deploying investigative tools under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) and the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, Covert Investigation is a highly practical and detailed guide to this important, complex, and sometimes controversial area of the law. This sixth edition of Covert Investigation has been fully revised to incorporate amendments to RIPA enacted by the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021, setting the moral and legal context for the ethical management and implementation of covert investigations, and the statutory principles underpinning such interventions. Its first Part discusses the issues facing authorizing officers and focuses on practical management issues from both strategic and operational perspectives, including the management of risk. Part 2 concentrates on the statutory elements of covert investigations, addressing directed and intrusive surveillance, property interference and surveillance through communications and the data generated. It includes detailed discussion of the use of covert human intelligence sources, especially the significant moral issues arising from relationship manipulation and privacy intrusion. The authors present clear and concise guidance to ensure that applications for covert investigations are made only in appropriate circumstances and that such investigations are undertaken with integrity. Featuring a range of helpful tools, such as scenarios, tips, and checklists, this edition is an essential resource for police and non-police investigators alike The book forms part of the Blackstone's Practical Policing Series. The series, aimed at junior to middle ranking officers, consists of practical guides containing clear and detailed explanations of the relevant legislation and practice, accompanied by case studies, illustrative diagrams, and useful checklists.
Download or read book Legal Guidelines for Covert Surveillance Operations in the Private Sector written by John Dale Hartman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can often use public sector laws as a guide to legal surveillance operations, but there is not necessarily a direct correlation between the laws of the public sector and the private sector. Laws that apply to the way private agents conduct surveillance operations are scattered in statutes dictated by various state legislatures and court decisions. Written by an agent, not an attorney, this book informs other agents of the legal ramifications to consider operations. The only reference available to the practitioner that covers both public and private surveillance laws and how they relate, it sets down guidelines in an easy-to-understand format.
Download or read book Regulating Undercover Law Enforcement The Australian Experience written by Brendon Murphy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the way in which undercover police investigation has come to be regulated in Australia. Drawing on documentary and doctrinal legal analysis, this book investigates how, in the space of a single decade, Australian law makers set out to regulate one of the most difficult aspects of police: undercover investigation. In so doing, the Australian experience represents a paradigm model. And yet despite its success, it is a system of law and practice that has a dark side – a model of investigation to relies heavily on activities that are unlawful in the absence of authorisation. It is a model that is as much concerned with the surveillance and control of police as it is with suspected criminal conduct. The book aims to locate the Australian experience in comparative perspective with other major common law jurisdictions (the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand), with a view to contrast strengths, similarities and weaknesses of these models. It is argued that the Australian model, at the pragmatic level, offers a highly successful model for regulatory structure and practice, providing a significant model for successful regulation. At the same time, the model that has been introduced raises important questions about how and why the Australian experience evolved in the way that it did, and the implications this has for the relationship between citizen and state, the judiciary and the executive, and broader questions about the protections offered by rights discourse and jurisprudence. This book aims to document the law, policy and practices that shape undercover investigations. In so doing, it aims to not only articulate the way in which the law regulates these activities, but also to move on to consider some of the fundamental questions linked to undercover investigations: how did regulation happen? By what means of regulation? What are the driving policy issues that give this field of law its particular complexion? What are the implications? Who gains, and who loses, by which means of power? The book offers unique insights into a largely unknown aspect of modern covert policing, identifying a range of practices, the legal framework, controversies and powers. By locating these practices in a rich theoretical context, informed by risk and governmentality scholarship, this book offers a legal and theoretical explanation of one of the most controversial forms of policing.
Download or read book Undercover Police Surveillance in Comparative Perspective written by Cyrille Fijnaut and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States and Europe have recently experienced a significant expansion in the use of undercover police tactics and technological means of surveillance. In a democratic society, such tactics raise significant questions for public policy and social research. New and sophisticated forms of crime and social control (and their internationalization) represent an important and neglected topic. Realizing this, the leading scholars in this field created a European and American working group for the comparative study of police surveillance. This collaborative, landmark volume reports the results of their work. It is the first book ever devoted to the comparative study of the topic and includes articles on the historical development of covert policing in Europe and its spread to the United States (where it was extended and recently exported back to Europe), plus detailed accounts of the use of covert tactics in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Sweden, Canada and the United States. Audience: Social scientists, historians, policy makers, lawyers, and criminal justice practitioners
Download or read book Informants Cooperating Witnesses and Undercover Investigations written by Dennis G. Fitzgerald and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of informants has been described as the "black hole of law enforcement." Failures in the training of police officers and federal agents in the recruitment and operation of informants has undermined costly long-term investigations, destroyed the careers of prosecutors and law enforcement officers, and caused death and serious injuries to innocent citizens and police. In many cases, the events leading to disaster could have been avoided had the law enforcement agency followed the time-tested procedures examined in this book. Informants, Cooperating Witnesses, and Undercover Investigations: A Practical Guide to Law, Policy, and Procedure, Second Edition covers every aspect of the informant and cooperating witness dynamic—a technique often shrouded in secrecy and widely misunderstood. Quoted routinely in countless newspaper and magazine articles, the first edition of this book was the go-to guide for practical, effective guidance on this controversial yet powerful investigative tool. Extensively updated, topics in this second edition include: Sweeping changes in the FBI and ICE informant and undercover programs New informant recruiting techniques Reverse sting operations Entrapment issues Examination of recent high-profile cases where the misuse of informants resulted in lawsuits and legislation The changing nature of compensation and cooperation agreements Forfeiture, informants, and rewards The management of controlled undercover purchases of evidence Challenges posed by fabricated information, phantom informants and police corruption Witness security measures New whistleblower reward programs Authoritative, scholarly, and based on boots-on-the-ground experience, this book is written by an author who has been a police supervisor, an informant recruiter and handler, an undercover agent, and an attorney. Supported by statutes, case law, and previously unpublished excerpts from law enforcement agency manuals, it is essential reading for every police officer, police manager, prosecutor, police academy trainer, criminal justice professor, and defense attorney. This book is part of the Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations series.
Download or read book Ethical Issues in Covert Security and Surveillance Research written by Ron Iphofen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Ethical Issues in Covert, Security and Surveillance Research showcases that it is only when the integrity of research is carefully pursued can users of the evidence produced be assured of its value and its ethical credentials.
Download or read book Covert Surveillance Techniques written by Peter Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as a reference and training manual for the person who is likely to carry out surveillance in the course of their work. It covers all aspects of surveillance work. However, it is also intended to interest the lay person.
Download or read book Covert Policing written by Simon McKay and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing the law governing covert policing activities, undertaken by law enforcement and other public authorities, this book examines the statutory and procedural requirements relating to covert policing deployments, from the interception of communications to the use and conduct of covert human intelligence sources.
Download or read book Covert Surveillance written by Great Britain. Home Office and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2002 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This code of practice provides guidance on the use of covert surveillance by public authorities under Part II of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, and on entry on, or interference with, property (or with wireless telegraphy) under section 5 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994 or Part III of the Police Act 1997. It replaces the 'Intrusive surveillance code of practice' (ISBN 0113411715) issued in 1999 pursuant to section 101(3) of the Police Act 1997.
Download or read book Undercover written by C. J. C. F. Fijnaut and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1995-10-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3. Leaders of Men.
Download or read book Invisible Policing written by Bethan Loftus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is covert policing? How do covert surveillance officers use their time? What are their perceptions of the work, its status, rewards and challenges? How are operations planned, authorised, carried out and reviewed? How do officers understand and negotiate the dilemmas involved in carrying out the peculiar demands of their job? Does the existing authorisation regime strike an appropriate balance between the need for police accountability and the protection of civil liberties on the one hand, and operational efficiency and the demands of security on the other? This book provides answers to these questions and more, and presents the first truly ethnographic account of the inner-world of covert policing. This book sheds new light on a largely hidden and poorly understood form of investigation and offers a major contrubution to research on police culture and police practice.
Download or read book Covert Investigation 6e written by Clive Harfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading practical guide for anyone working in covert investigation, presenting clear and concise guidance to ensure that applications for covert investigations are made only in appropriate circumstances and are then undertaken with the utmost integrity.
