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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/judge-should-ok-undercover-police.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Undercover policing should be authorised in advance by a judge, said Sir Hugh Orde" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-judge-should-ok-undercover-police.jpg" alt="Undercover policing should be authorised in advance by a judge, said Sir Hugh Orde"/></a></p>
<p>Undercover policing operations should have to be authorised in advance by a judge, the head of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has said.</p>
<p>Sir Hugh Orde, Acpo president, said the change was needed to restore public confidence.</p>
<p>It follows concerns about the role played by ex-Metropolitan Police constable Mark Kennedy, who spent a reported seven years posing as an environmental activist.</p>
<p>Sir Hugh said the benefits of judicial oversight of future operations would &#8220;far outweigh the additional administrative burden&#8221;.</p>
<p>Speaking at a policing seminar held by human rights group Liberty in central London, Sir Hugh said: &#8220;The current system of retrospective inspection is, in my judgment, no longer sufficient to secure the confidence of right thinking people that such interference with citizens&#8217; rights (with its foreseeable collateral intrusion on many) is appropriate.</p>
<p>&#8220;Therefore the solution must take the form of some independent pre-authority that is already a common feature in other areas of policing in this country.&#8221;</p>
<p>Control of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU), to which undercover officer Mr Kennedy belonged, was transferred from Acpo to Scotland Yard last Monday.</p>
<p>Six protesters accused of planning to invade Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire claimed prosecutors dropped charges against them after Mr Kennedy offered to give evidence on their behalf.</p>
<p>Several inquiries &#8211; by Her Majesty&#8217;s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and Scotland Yard &#8211; are investigating aspects of undercover policing in the wake of the controversy.</p>
<p>Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti said: &#8220;Recent revelations of abusive infiltration into non-violent protest movements should shame every democrat in Britain. We agree with Sir Hugh that such an important service should be accountable not to politics but to the law.&#8221;</p>
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