This is an excerpt from the 'Rod Richardson' profile at the former Undercover Research Group wiki, last updated in 2016. Richardson is due to give evidence in 2025. An updated profile will appear in due course.
EN32 'Rod Richardson' was an NPOIU undercover officer who infiltrated the environmental, anarchist and animal rights movement between 1999 and 2003 in Essex, London and Nottingham.
He began his deployment at the Rettenden protest camp in Essex before infiltrating anarchist and environmentalist groups in Nottingham and networks such as Earth First! He also infiltrated the WOMBLES in London, and travelled to demonstrations at international summits.
In February 2013, he was unmasked on Indymedia UK and in The Guardian; but it took the Undercover Policing Inquiry years to confirm that he had been a Metropolitan Police officer and that he had worked for the National Public Order Intelligence Unit - on 15 December 2016.
It is notable that he disappeared just before Mark Kennedy appeared in the same activist circles, and that both based themselves mainly in Nottingham and London. This has led to speculation that Rod was active in preparing the way for Kennedy.
He is the most recent known user of a deceased child's identity as part of his cover story.