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Acpo Manual Of Standards For The Deployment Of Undercover Officers 2016

Eveline Lubbers, Undercover Research Group, 20 March 2018Yesterday the Undercover Policing Inquiry published the Special Demonstration Squad Tradecraft Manual, written in 1995, and updated in 1996. It was authored by Andy Coles, straight after his own undercover deployment in London animal rights groups as from 1991 – 1995. On the same day, the Chair of the Inquiry, John Mitting, confirmed that Coles had indeed been a spycop – almost a year since in May 2017.Undercover Policing Tradecraft Manual – a vile documentBefore we look at the timing of the publication, let’s have a look at the content of the Special Demonstration Squad.Vile ContentThe Manual is a bundle of advise for future undercover officers. It includes a chapter from the activist book Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching warning against ‘’, as well as an example of how a group on the extreme right investigated someone they did not trust – unfortunately that bit has been redacted. There are sections on the law, the little there is on undercover operations, and a long list of the names that are most common in the UK – to choose your cover name from.The heart of the bundle is a 44 page guide, written by Andy Coles. In short, the content is so vile and abhorrent that is seems a waste of space to include too many examples. The entire guide is steeped in disdain not only for the people being spied on – dismissively nicknamed ‘wearies’ – but of anyone else the officer will come into contact with or affect.

Quite shocking is the section on building a fake identity, which included finding a birth certificate of a child that had died early that fitted specific requirements. Coles choses to make some morbid jokes:Further research would follow to establish the respiratory status of the dead person’s family, if any, and, if they were still breathing, where they were living. If all was suitably obscure and there was little chance of the SDS officer, or more importantly, one of the wearies running into the dead person’s parents/siblings etc., the SDS officer would assume squatters’ rights over the unfortunate’s identity for the next four years.There is the advice to have only ‘’, which is cynical knowing that undercover officers moved in with their activist’ partners, took part in their family life, in some cases went to, or even marriage, and at least one had a planned. The exit strategy, including fabricating ‘personal difficulties’ before disappearing, appears without any thought on the impact of the people left behind.If anything, it shows how much the undercover officers hated the people they spied upon.

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How all of this was some kind of a game to this secret unit, a game that you had to be good at – good not just at lying, but at living a lie.MissingSo much for what is in there, now for what is not included.First the redactions. Although there are fewer redactions than previous versions, essential parts are still blacked-out. There is a lot we are not allowed to know on Preparation and Withdrawal, and about Compromise and Absence. An appendix section misses A view from the street and some more advice regarding the tradecraft, probably from another former spycop. We’re not even allowed to know why Appendices G and H are missing.What does the Table of Contents tell us?It confirms that the Special Demonstration Squad focused almost uniquely on groups on the left. Of the twelve target groups discussed, the Manual distinguishes varieties from anarchists to militant, there is the category ‘Irish’, while the last one is a catch-all ‘the extreme right’.Furthermore, it’s utterly amazing how little the Manual has about the actual gathering of intelligence, what the spycops should be looking for, and how they would get it.

Rae lynn. The Table of Contents jumps from Launch to Living a Normal Life to Withdrawal, without any mention of the aim of the operations. It appears that the ultimate goal of a deployment is not getting caught.The Tradecraft Manual is written as if undercover operations are in fact a reality game, a survival show, requiring nothing but a set of instructions.