Agenda item - Annual Surveillance Report 2024

RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards and General Purposes Commitee:

1)       Approves the continued use of covert surveillance as an enforcement tool to prevent and detect crime and disorder investigated by its officers, providing the activity is in line with the Council’s Policy and Guidance and the necessity and proportionality rules are stringently applied.

2)       Notes the surveillance activity undertaken by the authority since the report to Committee in January 2024 as set out in paragraph 3.3 in the report.

3)       Approves the continued use of the Policy and Guidance document as set out in Appendix 1 in its updated form.

35.1    The committee considered the Annual Surveillance report to appraise the committee of the activities that have been undertaken utilising the powers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) since the last report to Committee in January 2024

35.2    Councillors Guilmant and Meadows asked questions and contributed to the debate of the report.

35.3    RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards and General Purposes Committee:

1)       Approves the continued use of covert surveillance as an enforcement tool to prevent and detect crime and disorder investigated by its officers, providing the activity is in line with the Council’s Policy and Guidance and the necessity and proportionality rules are stringently applied.

2)       Notes the surveillance activity undertaken by the authority since the report to Committee in January 2024 as set out in paragraph 3.3 in the report.

3)       Approves the continued use of the Policy and Guidance document as set out in Appendix 1 in its updated form.