Home Department written question – answered at on 6 December 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will collect information on the deployment of undercover officers by police forces in England and Wales over the last 10 years.
The decision on whether to deploy covert undercover officers is an operational matter for individual law enforcement agencies. The chief surveillance commissioner has the statutory responsibility for the oversight of whether police use of this technique is in accordance with the law. His key findings and broad statistics are published in annual reports which are laid before Parliament and are available in the House Library.
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