HN2185 Colin Hewett

Fourth Report from the Home Affairs Select Committee Session 1984-85 on Special Branch

Minutes of Home Office, police and MI5 meeting planning for evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into Special Branches

Home Office letter to Buck (ACPO) noting ammendments made to draft Guidelines for Special Branches

Internal Home Office letter concerning the Home Affairs Select Committee enquiry into Special Branches

Home Office letter to Ken Oxford (ACPO) on revised Guidelines for Special Branches and Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry

Home Office letter to Ken Oxford (ACPO) enclosing revised version of the Guidelines for Special Branches

Home Office letter to Peter Imbert (ACPO) enclosing revised version of the Guidelines for Special Branches

Note of a Home Office, police and MI5 meeting to discuss and amend Guidelines for Special Branches and Surveillance

Home Office letter to Ken Oxford (ACPO) attaching revised draft of Guidelines for Special Branches

SDS Annual Report 1983, inc Home Office letter authorising continuation

Internal Home Office letter on circulating new draft Guidelines for Special Branches for comment

Home Office letter on the timetable for the review of Guidelines for Special Branches

Notes of meeting of Home Office, police and MI5 to discuss new Guidelines for Special Branches

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 to Chief Constable Ken Oxford enclosing draft version of Home Office guidelines for Special Branches

Home Office internal letter to JG Pilling enclosing draft Revised Terms of Reference for Special Branches (not attached)

Letter from DAC Hewett to JG Pilling (HO) enclosing existing Special Branch Terms of Reference ahead of Home Office discussion paper (not attached)

Home Office letter to Chief Constable Kenneth Oxford on the definition of subversion, inc speeches by Lord Harris and Leon Brittan (not attached)

Home Office letter to Sir Brian Cubbon on restarting the review of the Special Branch Terms of Reference

Home Office letter expressing concern over the scope of a Special Branch report into police monitoring groups, inc explanatory letter from DAC Hewett (attached)

Correspondance between senior officers about the report ''Political Extremism and the Campaign for Police Accountability within the Metropolitan Police District' and countering such monitoring groups, inc minute sheet

Note (presumably from MI5) to DAC requesting additional details on someone from the League for Socialist Action

MI5 letter asking the DAC to pass on thanks to HN80 after a meeting in which MI5 were given details about the SWP

Minute sheet from file regarding continuation of the SDS from 1982 to 1986

Letter from Hayden Phillips at Home Office to DAC Colin Hewett authorising an increase in SDS expenditure

Minute sheet that accompanied Annual Report 1979 on continuation of the Squad from 1979 to 1982, inc affirmation from DAC Bob Bryan