Sections

Website Links

Some of the links contained throughout the text of this website are grouped together here for ease of reference, along with a number of others that you may find useful:

Intelligence Services

Security Service (MI5)
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
Security Intelligence Service

Law Enforcement

United Kingdom Police Forces
Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)
HM Revenue & Customs
Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency
Association of Chief Police Officers

The Home Office

Legislation & Codes Of Practice

Legislation

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA)
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal Rules 2000
The Human Rights Act 1998
The Intelligence Service Act
The Police Act 1997


Codes of practice

Code of Practice for the Interception of Communications
Code of Practice for Covert Surveillance
Code of Practice for the use of Covert Human Intelligence Sources
RIPA Codes of Practice

RIPA statutory instruments

SI 2003 No. 3172 The Regulation of Investigatory Powers(Communications Data) Order 2003
SI 2005 No. 1083 The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Communication Data)(Amendment) Order 2005
SI 2006 No. 1878 The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Communication Data)(Additional Functions and Amendment) Order 2006

SI 2003 No. 3171 The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Direct Surveillance and Covert Human Intelligence Sources) Order 2003
SI 2005 No. 1084 The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Direct Surveillance and Covert Human Intelligence Sources) Order 2005
SI 2006 No. 1874 The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Direct Surveillance and Covert Human Intelligence Sources) Order 2006 

Alternative avenues for complaints

Information Commissioners Office
The Adjudicator’s Office
Independent Police Complaints Commission
Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
The European Court of Human Rights

Other Oversight Bodies

Office of Surveillance Commissioners
Intelligenceand Security Committee

 

 

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