Excluding renewals there were 2,701 property interference authorisations during 2010-2011, which is very slightly down on the previous year. There were 666 renewals of authorisations compared to 717 in the previous year.
And...
Law enforcement agencies granted 13,780 authorisations to conduct directed surveillance during 2010-2011 with 2,413 still extant at 31 March 2011.
Plus...
In the period to which this report relates, other public authorities recruited 234 CHIS (covert human intelligence sources) of whom 153 were cancelled during the year with 106 extant authorisations at the end of the year
Perhaps we should worry a little more about this?
I also wonder - have had some idle moments - just how much use the police and security services have made of this phone "hacking" malarkey? I don't believe for a second that it hasn't cross the occasional febrile copper mind. And the spooks - they've got to be using the techniques haven't they?
Perhaps this should be part of the multitudinous enquiries into how media folk are spying on us?
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It's probably one of those scandals that will emerge in twenty or thirty years that will viciously divide the entire country.
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