Letter from Hayden Phillips (Home Office) to DAC Bryan on whether to update guidance for Special Branches and more detailed info on them, inc draft public document (not attached)
Notes of a Home Office, police, MI5 and ACPO meeting to revise Guidelines for Special Branches, held at Home Office on 30 Oct 1983, inc annexes of revised draft and cover letter (not attached)
Home Office letter circulating correspondence and meeting minutes related to the Working Party of the Police Panel of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities examining the role of Special Branches (attached)
Letter from the Home Office to SHHD explaining changes to Guidelines for Special Branches and enclosing revised version of the covering letter to chief constables (not attached)
Home Office letter to the Public Relations Branch enclosing drafts of the Guidelines for Special Branches and Surveillance and what to say to the press (not attached)