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<p>The oversight of undercover operations and the proportionality of covert tactics will be reviewed, inspectors have said.</p>
<p>Her Majesty&#8217;s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) launched the review following concerns about the role played by ex-Metropolitan Police Pc Mark Kennedy, who spent a reported seven years under cover posing as an environmental activist.</p>
<p>The review will take into account separate inquiries by the police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), and Scotland Yard, said HMIC.</p>
<p>Speaking about the role of undercover officer Mr Kennedy, Policing Minister Nick Herbert said: &#8220;It&#8217;s clear to us all that something operationally has gone very wrong and that is now the subject of an Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think everybody is concerned by the Kennedy case and we have an IPCC precisely to investigate this kind of thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Concerns over the operational accountability of Mr Kennedy&#8217;s unit, the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU), were raised by MPs on the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee.</p>
<p>Mr Herbert said there needed to be &#8220;proper accountability&#8221; for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), which is running the unit until it can be transferred to Scotland Yard.</p>
<p>Inspector Bernard Hogan-Howe will conduct the HMIC review, said a spokesman.</p>
<p>Keith Vaz, chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, will also write to Acpo president Sir Hugh Orde over concerns that Mr Kennedy was given a £200,000 per year expenses account while working undercover.</p>
<p>The Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) said it had also been asked to carry out an independent review of Mr Kennedy&#8217;s deployment as an undercover officer.</p>
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