Covert Investigation

Examining all the issues you need to consider when deploying investigative tools under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), Covert Investigation is a highly practical and detailed guide to this confusing, ambiguous, and often controversial area of the law.

Contents:

Navigating a moral minefield -- Statutory principles in covert investigation -- Authorization and governance -- Understanding the operating environment -- Managing covert investigation -- Directed surveillance --- Intrusive surveillance -- Interference with property or wireless telegraphy and entry onto land -- Covert investigation and computers -- Examining mobile phones -- Commmunications data -- Interception of communications -- Covert human intelligence sources -- Covert investigation abroad -- What does good covert investigation look like?