The Document Database presents all documents released by the UCPI, plus a Library of background material - the latest documents first.
The Inquiry documents can be filtered by date, tranche, spycop, group and more, and searched by keyword. For ease of navigation they are in three separate databases:
Disclosure is where you will find all files released by the Inquiry as part of its investigations. This includes the contemporaneous reports of spycops, managerial correspondence and notes of meetings with MI5.
Statements and Transcripts has all witness statements, and opening and closing statements, as well as the transcripts of the hearings.
Procedural includes all documents from the start of the Inquiry in 2015 until the hearings began in 2020.
The Library is a collection of background material to the spycops scandal - essentially relevant reading sourced outside the Inquiry, including the various early reviews.
The filtering fields follow the material: date, author, type, originator/publisher.
MI5 note for liaison file reporting meeting with DCI Dave Short and HN68 to discuss intelligence requests on SWP, CND and the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (M-L), held at SDS offices on 20 Jan 1983
Report on public meeting of East London Workers Against Racism on 'Hackney, an equal opportunities borough?' with speaker Judith Harrison, held at Dalston Trades Club, Dalston Lane E8 on 26 Jan 1983
Report submitting SWP's restricted weekly internal info sheet of 7 Feb 1983 and leaflets for Campaign Against Racist Laws demo at Jubille Gardens, County Hall on 27 March 1983
Report containing a very comprehensive analysis of Troops Out Movement covering topics inc politics, membership, finances, affiliates, liaison with the republican movement, and publicity materials. HN96 is national membership secretary
Report on a picket of Hackney Police Committee by East London Workers Against Racism following the death of Colin Roach, held at Hackney Town Hall on 7 Feb 1983, inc Police Ctee docs for the meeting (attached)
MI5 note for liaison file reporting meeting between DCI Short, HN45 and MI5 to summarising current SDS officer activities, personnel changes and potential new targets, held at unspecified venue on 24 Feb 83
Report on a student occupation of the Ladbroke House site of North London Polytechnic in protest at education cuts on 23 Feb 1983, inc 'Occupation News' sheets for days 8 and 9, and a stop press on the possession order (attached)
Phone message stating the RCP plan to hold a street meeting to publicise their Irish Freedom Movement week of action near Archway Tube on 12 March 1983
Home Office letter expressing concern over the scope of a Special Branch report into police monitoring groups, inc explanatory letter from DAC Hewett (attached)
