Investigatory

The changes announced to control orders may benefit a small number of individuals suspected of crimes related to terrorism, but the other changes announced in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act still do not stop police forces from depriving of their liberty many other individuals who are just "helping the police with their inquiries", but have yet to be charged with any offence at all, and are on police bail Report, 25 January.

Letters: Beam me up, Will 2011

In his evidence, Yates listed a series of occasions on which prosecutors had advised police that the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 Ripa made it an offence to intercept voicemail only if the message had not already been heard by its intended recipient.

Phone hacking: Metropolitan police chief keeps up row with DPP 2011

Investigatory reports involving civilians may be prepared by civilian police agencies with little connection to the military.

David Isenberg: Ahem: About That Great Change to the UCMJ David Isenberg 2010

However, any inquiry must also address two issues that have so far received inadequate attention: first, the objective of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 was not, as officially maintained, to regulate policing; it was to safeguard covert policing from challenges under the Human Rights Act 1998, which came into effect at the same time.

Letters: Act aims to safeguard undercover policing 2011

Investigatory reports involving civilians may be prepared by civilian police agencies with little connection to the military.

David Isenberg: Ahem: About That Great Change to the UCMJ David Isenberg 2010

Safeguards intended to protect individuals from unnecessary and illegal surveillance are outdated and ineffectual, a report on the working of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act Ripa claims.

Law against phone hacking is not working, says civil liberties group 2011

Yates told the home affairs select committee in September 2009 the CPS relied on a narrow interpretation of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which meant a crime was only committed if a voicemail is intercepted by a third party before it has been listened to.

Senior police officer 'misled parliament' over phone hacking 2011

• A piece said that requests to track mobile phone users which are made to phone networks under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act Ripa are audited annually by the information commissioner.

Corrections and clarifications 2011

The communications companies will be required to make the data available to the police and security services on a case-by-case basis for the purposes of combating terrorism and serious crime under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. The government's defence and security review says the interception programme is required to keep up with changing technology and to protect the public.

'Surveillance state' fear as government revives tracking plan Alan Travis 2010

The most obvious need is to reform the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, which leaves the instigation of surveillance in the hands of the police, with minimal oversight.

Policing and surveillance: The inspector calls | Editorial 2011