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The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) is the body which represents UK policing on a national basis. It is the successor organisation to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).

It is a core participant in the Undercover Policing Inquiry on the grounds that it has:

  • an interest in the issue of undercover policing, particularly through its subcommittee, the National Undercover Working Group; and
  • oversight of Operation Elter, the investigation into the National Public Order Intelligence Unit, which had been overseen by ACPO’s Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee.
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In its opening statement to Tranche 1 it wrote:

The NPCC does not act for any individual officer or former officers in this Inquiry, whether officers from the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU) or the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). Instead, the NPCC has a generic interest in each Tranche, including Tranche One, which derives at least in large part from the following factors:

a) The NPCC’s ongoing role through the National Undercover Working Group [“NUWG”] in formulating policy and practice relating to undercover policing operations. The NPCC coordinates the operational response, across the Police Service, to some of the country’s most serious threats including terrorism, organised crime and national emergencies.

b) The fact that the NPCC has custody of the extremely voluminous documentation generated by the NPOIU (by virtue of being the successor to ACPO) and is, therefore, heavily involved in the disclosure and associated redaction exercise relating to former NPOIU officers. This exercise continues but to date has involved several million documents being collated and uploaded to Relativity and liaison to make documents available to the Inquiry;

c) The NPCC facilitated the involvement of risk assessors, whose reports have informed anonymity decisions taken by the Chair in respect of former NPOIU officers.

In the Inquiry, the Council has been represented by Sir Robert Francis KC and Gerry Boyle KC leading Cecily White (all based at the Serjeant’s Inn chambers) .

Website

Statements

Title
Hearing Day
Groups
Exhibits
Closing statement of the National Police Chiefs’ Council for Tranche 1

Procedural

Date
Title
Document Type
Topic
EN29 – Open application for restriction order
Application
Anonymity
EN29 – Gist of Risk Assessment
Risk assessment
Anonymity
EN30 – Gist of Addendum to Risk Assessment
Risk assessment
Anonymity
EN30 – Gist of Risk Assessment
Risk assessment
Anonymity
EN49 – Gist of Risk Assessment
Risk assessment
Anonymity
EN506 – Gist of Risk Assessment
Risk assessment
Anonymity
NPCC – Submissions for Procedural Hearing of 26 January 2021
Submissions
Conduct of evidence hearings
NPCC – Submissions on Chairman’s statement re the conduct of tranche 1 evidence hearings
Submissions
Conduct of evidence hearings
Transcript of UCPI Procedural Hearing 13: Privacy and the GDPR (Day 2)
Transcript
Privacy
Submissions on behalf of the National Police Chiefs’ Council for the second hearing on privacy and GDPR (updated)
Note regarding the Inquiry’s evidence gathering process
Submissions
Privacy
Submissions on behalf of the National Police Chiefs’ Council for the second hearing on privacy and GDPR
Submissions
Privacy
Transcript of UCPI Procedural Hearing 13: Privacy and the GDPR (Day 1)
Transcript
Privacy
Submissions on behalf of the National Police Chiefs’ Council re privacy and GDPR
Submissions
Privacy
Transcript of UCPI Procedural Hearing 12: Strategic Review
Transcript
Strategic Review
Fourth Witness Statement of Alan Pughsley
Witness Statement
Restriction order approach, Generic restriction order documents, Photographs
NPCC – Submissions in support of applications for restriction orders
Submissions
Restriction order approach, Generic restriction order documents
Open version of spreadsheet referred to in NPCC generic submissions
Supporting material
Restriction order approach, Generic restriction order documents
Transcript of UCPI Procedural Hearing 7: Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
Transcript
Rehabitation of Offenders Act 1974
NPCC – Submissions for hearing of 20-22 November 2017
Submissions
Anonymity
Extracts of statement of Alan Pughsley for NPCC made 27 September 2017
As relied on by the Metropolitan Police Service in support of anonymity applications
Witness Statement
Anonymity, Restriction order approach
NPCC – Submissions on Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
Submissions
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
Transcript of UCPI Procedural Hearing 6: Anonymity I, Restriction Order Approach (Day 1)
Transcript
Anonymity, Restriction order approach
NPCC – Submissions re MPS application for extension of time and for a change in the Inquiry approach
Submissions
Restriction order approach, Anonymity
NPCC – Submissions on undertakings: misconduct / disciplinary hearings
Submissions
Misconduct and Disciplinary Hearings
NPCC – Submissions on the principles applicable to the disclosure of deceased children’s identities
Submissions
Deceased Children’s Identities (procedural)
Transcript of UCPI Procedural Hearing 3: Restriction order approach (Day 1)
Transcript
Restriction order approach, Neither Confirm Nor Deny
NPCC – Submissions on legal approach to restriction orders
Submissions
Restriction order approach
NPCC – Submissions on undertakings
Submissions
Undertakings
NPCC – Submissions on the principle of Neither Confirm Nor Deny
Submissions
Restriction order approach, Neither Confirm Nor Deny
Police and NSCPs – Core Participants (Ruling 1)
Ruling
Core participants, Deceased Children’s Identities (procedural)
Updated Terms of Reference for Operation Elter
General
General

References

Author(s)
Title
Publisher
Year
National police response to the Hillsborough Families Report
College of Policing, National Police Chiefs Council