![]() ![]() Any material to be disclosed to the inqury is first passed through AC-PIT for review and redaction. As such, AC-PIT is the point of contact for the rest of the Metropolitan Police in regards the inquiry, including disseminating information or receiving material. While the Legal Services deals with questions and other issues relating to the inquiry, it passes onto AC-PIT matters such as disclosure requested by the inquiry. Together with the Directorate of Legal Services (DLS), it forms the 'Police and Legal Team' which deals with the Undercover Policing Inquiry. King retired in October 2016 when she was succeeded by Temporary Assistant Commissioner Fiona Taylor. This was initially Martin Hewitt, who oversaw the creation of AC-PIT as part of his role in responding to various inquiries facing the Metropolitan Police including the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel and the Undercover Policing Inquiry Hewitt moved to a new role in April 2016, when he was replaced by Assistant Commissioner Helen King. The unit is accountable to the Assistant Commissioner for Professionalism, to whom the head of AC-PIT provides briefings and updates. The officers and staff of AC-PIT are drawn from across the MPS and it is a policy that none of them were trained or deployed as undercovers. Neil Hutchison as Police Team Senior Officer his line manager is DAC Professionalism Fiona Taylor, who also oversees the Directorate of Professional Standards (under Det. Parm Sandhu.Īs well as the UCPI, AC-PIT has responsibility for providing disclosure to a number of 'legacy issues' including the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel, an MPS review of anti-corruption investigations since 1994, two investigations by the Independent Police Complaints Commission and a number of matters that have been redacted. Dedicated to the review and disclosure of anti-corruption material, under Det. Dedicated to support of the UCPI and delivery of Operation FileSafe (see below) under Det. In September 2015, Beacon is renamed as the 'Assistant Commissioner - Public Inquiry Team' and splits into two strands: 1. Its objectives were set out in a MPS Management Meeting of 16 April 2014 as: (i) To support the work of Mark Ellison QC on the review of specific cases (ii) To support the Public Inquiry (iii) To support the IPCC corruption investigation (iv) To support the work of Operation Herne (v) To review the issue of document handling and the MPS approach to records management (vi) To demonstrate transparency throughout and (vii) To learn any lessons on undercover policing, implement changes and embed organisational learning Operation Beacon was a unit created in the Spring of 2014 to prepare the Metropolitan Police's response to Mark Ellison's Stephen Lawrence Independent Review, which came out in July 2014. 3 Undercover Policing Inquiry (Pitchford). ![]()
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