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Annual Surveillance Report 2015
Decision Maker: Audit & Standards Committee
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
Report outlining the surveillance activity
undertaken by the Council during the last year and reporting on the
audit of the Office of the Surveillance Commissioners in June
2015.
Decision:
1) That the Committee approve 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 that necessity and proportionality rules are stringently applied.
2) That the Committee note the surveillance activity undertaken by the authority since the report to Committee in December 2014 as set out in paragraph 3.3.
3) That the Committee approve the continued use of the amended Policy and Guidance document as set out in Appendix 2.
Report author: Jo Player
Publication date: 13/01/2016
Date of decision: 12/01/2016
Decided at meeting: 12/01/2016 - Audit & Standards Committee
Accompanying Documents:
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