Details
Details
Alias:
Bob Robinson
Dates active:
-
Deceased Child’s Identity:
Yes
HN10 Bob Lambert ('Bob Robinson')
Overview

This is an excerpt from a profile last updates in 2018. The full profile and number of related articles on Lambert can be found here:  https://powerbase.info/index.php/Bob_Lambert 

Lambert gave evidence to the Inquiry in 2025, as did 'Jacqui' and Belinda Harvey who were decieved into sexual relationships with him. An updated version of the profile will appear here after the Inquiry publishes the remiander of evidence relating to him.

Robert Lambert, commonly known as Bob Lambert and sometimes styled Dr Robert Lambert MBE, born in 1952, is a former Metropolitan Police officer turned academic.

A long-serving officer with the Metropolitan Police Special Branch, Lambert was a key member the Special Demonstration Squad. He served both as an undercover officer - using the false identity ‘Bob Robinson’ to infiltrate the environmental and animal rights protest movement in the 1980s - and then later as an influential manager of the unit in the 1990s.

He subsequently set up the Muslim Contact Unit within Special Branch, which worked with British Islamists purportedly to temper radicalisation, before retiring from the police in 2007. He then began a successful second career as an academic, building on his work at MCU.

In October 2011 he was publicly exposed as having been a police spy by some of the London Greenpeace activists upon whom he had spied.

 

Reports

Date
Originator
MPS-UCPI
Title
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS_0735784
Minutes of the third informal twice-yearly meeting between representatives of the Security Service and Special Branch, discussing investigative journalism and Trotskysit entryism, held on 27 Sept 1977
Bob Lambert
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0740410
Memo from DCI Short to Chief Superintendent of 'S' Squad requesting reinstatement of HN126's overtime payments on Police Pay Computer, inc list of 13 UCOs with their operational start dates and expected finish dates
Bob Lambert
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0731471
Report on an RCP public meeting as part of their Bermondsey by-election campaign, held at Rotherhithe Civic Centre on 16 Feb 1983
Bob Lambert
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0730903
SDS Annual Report 1983, inc Home Office letter authorising continuation
Bob Lambert
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0726956
'Lambert Report': Discussion Paper on SDS Targeting Strategy and Deployment in Relation to the Animal Liberation Front, authored by Bob Lambert
Bob Lambert

Procedural

Date
Title
Document Type
Topic
Transcript of UCPI Procedural Hearing 1: Designation of Core Participants
Transcript
Core participants, Legal Representation, Costs
Police and NSCPs – Core Participants (Ruling 1)
Ruling
Core participants, Deceased Children’s Identities (procedural)
HN10 Robert Lambert / Bob Robinson – Open application for restriction order
Application
Anonymity
HN10 Bob Robinson – Gist of Impact Statement
Impact Statement
Anonymity
HN10 Bob Robinson – Draft restriction order
Supporting material
Anonymity
Police – Recognised Legal Representatives (Ruling 5)
Ruling
Core participants
HN10 Bob Robinson – Additional Impact Statement
Impact Statement
Anonymity
HN10 Bob Robinson – Minded-To Note re an application by the former officer to restrict some personal details
Minded-To Note
Anonymity
Press Notice: Minded-To Note on restriction order applications by HN10 (Lambert) and HN14 (Boyling)
Press Notice
Anonymity
HN10 Bob Robinson – bundle of collated media reports
Supporting material
Anonymity
Transcript of UCPI Procedural Hearing 8: Anonymity II, Restriction Order Approach (Day 1)
Transcript
Anonymity, Restriction order approach, Neither Confirm Nor Deny
Transcript of UCPI Procedural Hearing 8: Anonymity II, Restriction Order Approach (Day 2)
Transcript
Anonymity, Restriction order approach, Photographs
Peter Francis – Submissions re restriction order applications of various SDS officers
Submissions
Anonymity
Inquiry publishes information in relation to SDS officers whose deployments fell within Tranche 2
Press Notice

References

Author(s)
Title
Publisher
Year
Paul Lewis, Rob Evans
Progressive academic Bob Lambert is former police spy
The Guardian
Steve Bimson
Ellison Review - Walton, Lambert and Black
Independent Police Complaints Commission
HJA Solicitors welcomes referral of 40 year old unsafe conviction to Miscarriage of Justice Panel by Undercover Policing Inquiry
Hodge Jones & Allen