A one-off adjustment has been made to the figures to incorporate this change.Įxpenditure relating to core participants or witnesses to the Inquiry is made per this protocol (PDF, 230.1KB). The Inquiry directly funds its own legal team and all such costs are listed under the first two rows above, with the costs relating to the Chairman included in the first row.ĭue to a change in the way in which Government Legal Department (GLD) services are charged for, the costs up to September 2018 of GLD solicitors engaged by the Inquiry are included in the first line, and the costs from October 2018 are included in the second line.ĭuring Quarter Four of Financial year 2021-22 it was agreed that £618,300 of historical costs relating to prior years would be classified as part of the Inquiry’s expenditure. The categories in the table may be subject to some adjustment during the progress of the Inquiry. The final costs of the Inquiry will be published at the close of the Inquiry once all invoices have been received and settled. Tranche 6 is being investigated in the relevant tranche for the relevant period or policing unit.Īll figures have been rounded up to the nearest hundred. The table will be updated with additional dates on a quarterly basis.
Module Two (b) will involve senior managers higher in the chain of command as well as police personnel who handled intelligence provided by undercover police officers.Module Two (a) will involve managers and administrators from within undercover policing units.Module Two: Examination of the management and oversight of undercover officers, including their selection, training, supervision, care after the end of an undercover deployment, and the legal and regulatory framework within which undercover policing was carried out.Module One: Examination of the deployment of undercover officers in the past, their conduct, and the impact of their activities on themselves and others.The Inquiry’s investigations are broken down into three modules: The Inquiry will also examine whether people may have been wrongly convicted in cases involving undercover police officers, and refer any such cases to a separate panel for consideration. The Inquiry will examine the contribution undercover policing has made to tackling crime, how it was and is supervised and regulated, and its effect on individuals involved – both police officers and others who came into contact with them. Two undercover policing units – the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) and the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU) – have particular prominence for the Inquiry however, its work is not restricted to these units.
The work of the Inquiry covers the full scope of undercover policing work across England and Wales.