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Annual Surveillance Report
- Meeting of Audit & Standards Committee, Tuesday, 19th April, 2022 4.00pm (Item 54.)
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Executive Director, Governance, People and Resources
Decision:
1) That the continued use of covert surveillance be approved as an enforcement tool to prevent and detect crime and disorder investigated by officers, providing the activity is in line with the Council’s Policy and Guidance and the necessity and proportionality rules are stringently applied.
2) That the surveillance activity undertaken by the authority since the report to Committee in March 2021 as set out in paragraph 3.3 is noted.
3) That the updated Policy and Guidance document set out in Appendix 1 be approved.
Minutes:
Resolved-
1) That the continued use of covert surveillance be approved as an enforcement tool to prevent and detect crime and disorder investigated by officers, providing the activity is in line with the Council’s Policy and Guidance and the necessity and proportionality rules are stringently applied.
2) That the surveillance activity undertaken by the authority since the report to Committee in March 2021 as set out in paragraph 3.3 is noted.
3) That the updated Policy and Guidance document set out in Appendix 1 be approved.
Supporting documents:
- Annual Surveillance Report, item 54. PDF 122 KB View as HTML (54./1) 42 KB
- Annual Surveillance Report APX. n 1, item 54. PDF 1 MB View as HTML (54./2) 816 KB