Details
Details
Deployment:
Unit
SDS
Deceased Child’s Identity:
No
Overview

HN88 'Timothy Spence' was an SDS undercover officer between 1983 and 1987. 

For the first two years of his deployment, he infiltrated police monitoring and campaign groups in Hackney, such as the Hackney Campaign Against the Police Bill. From 1985 to the end of his deployment, he targeted CND.

Full profile to follow.

Reports

CSV
Date
Originator
MPS-UCPI
Title
MI5
UCPI0000029226
MI5 note for liaison file reporting meeting between DCI Short and F6 to discuss having an officer in Hackney/Stoke Newington, that MI5 know the officer in the RCP is well regarded there, the SDS giving MI5 printouts from the SWP computer and other SDS upd
MI5
UCPI0000028728
MI5 note for liaison file after meeting with Dave Short to discuss SDS coverage and intelligence esp with 121 Bookshop, SWP, Revolutionary Communist Party and the women's peace movement, held at the SDS office on 6 Dec 1983
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0730903
SDS Annual Report 1983, inc Home Office letter authorising continuation

Procedural

CSV
Date
Title
Document Type
Topic
Extension of time for service of anonymity applications by the MPS in respect of the SDS (Direction 12)
Order
Anonymity, Restriction order approach
HN88 Timothy Spence – Open application for restriction order
Application
Anonymity
Directions on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and SDS restriction order applictions (Direction 16)
Direction
Anonymity, Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
SDS officers – Restriction Orders (Minded-To Note 2)
Minded-To Note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers (November 2017 update)
Explanatory note
Anonymity
Press Notice: Second ‘Minded-To Note on SDS anonymity applications
Press Notice
Anonymity
SDS officers – Directions on restriction order applications (Direction 20)
Direction
Anonymity
Press Notice: Documents relating to SDS anonymity applications (following November Minded-To Note)
Press Notice
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers (January 2018 update)
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 4
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 5
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 6
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 7
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 8
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 9
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 11
Explanatory note
Anonymity
SDS officers – List of applications and evidence published on 9 July 2018
Hearing bundle index
Anonymity
SDS, NPOIU officers – Directions on restriction order applications (Direction 35)
Direction
Anonymity
Press Notice: Publication of documents relating to anonymity applications
Press Notice
Anonymity
NSCPs – July 2018 submissions on restriction order applications of various SDS officers
Submissions
Anonymity
SDS officers – Restriction Orders (Ruling 11)
Ruling
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 12
Explanatory note
Anonymity
Press Notice: Ruling on anonymity applications by 38 SDS officers, and a ‘Minded to’ note in respect of one officer
Press Notice
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 13
Explanatory note
Anonymity
HN88 Timothy Spence – Anonymity Order (Order 81)
Order
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 14 and Ruling 14
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Ruling 16
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Ruling 17
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Ruling 18
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Ruling 19 (March 2021 update)
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Ruling 19 (September 2021 update)
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Ruling 20
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 16
Explanatory note
Anonymity
Inquiry publishes information in relation to SDS officers whose deployments fell within Tranche 2
Press Notice
Timeline of SDS and commanding officers for Tranche 2
Timeline

References

CSV
Author(s)
Title
Publisher
Year
Spycops in CND: help us fill in the gaps!
Public Interest Law Centre