Decisions for issue Quarterly Surveillance Report

(1)               That the continued use of covert surveillance and the accessing of communications data as an enforcement tool to prevent and detect all crime and disorder investigated by its officers, providing the necessity and proportionality rules are stringently applied be approved; and

(2)               That the surveillance activity undertaken by the authority since the last report to Cabinet in December 2011 as set out in Appendix 1 to the report be noted.