Issue - meetings
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000: Stockport Council's use of directed surveillance and covert human intelligance sources (CHIS)
Meeting: 05/12/2017 - Corporate, Resource Management & Governance Scrutiny Committee (Item 9)
PDF 58 KBTo consider a report of the Head of Legal & Democratic Governance.
The Council’s Code of Practice for carrying out surveillance under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) specifies that quarterly reports will be taken to the CRMG Scrutiny Committee to demonstrate to elected members that the Council is complying with its own Code of Practice when using RIPA.
This report provides an update in relation to the second quarter of the 2017-2018 financial year.
The Scrutiny Committee is invited to note the report.
Officer contact: Rosalind Thorpe, 0161 474 3080, rosalind.thorpe@stockport.gov.uk
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Minutes:
A representative of the Deputy Chief Executive submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing an update in relation to the second quarter of the 2017-2018 financial year.
The Council’s Code of Practice for carrying out surveillance under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) required that quarterly reports be submitted to this Scrutiny Committee to demonstrate to councillors that the Council was complying with its own Code of Practice when using RIPA.
There had been no authorisations during the second quarter to use directed surveillance and covert human intelligence sources.
RESOLVED – That the report be noted.