"Jon Boutcher, chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, told the Northern Ireland Policing Board that he had appointed an "eminent" legal counsel, John Beggs KC, to review a 200 page report on PSNI surveillance and report back to confirm there was no misconduct or wrong-doing by police officers. Beggs, a specialist in police misconduct cases, represented the police commanders at the 2016 Hillsborough inquests, and is the co-author of Police Misconduct, Complaints, and Public Regulation"
"Boutcher was speaking following the publication of a 200 page review by Angus McCullough KC, which found that the PSNI had made 21 phone data applications to identify journalist's confidential sources, collated a secret register of over 1000 journalists phone numbers, and identified four cases where the PSNI had used "directed surveillance" for investigations involving journalists and one involving a lawyer."
Jon Boutcher, chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, appointed John Beggs KC to review a 200-page report on PSNI surveillance and to confirm whether any police misconduct or wrongdoing occurred. Beggs is a specialist in police misconduct cases, represented police commanders at the 2016 Hillsborough inquests, and co-authored Police Misconduct, Complaints, and Public Regulation. The PSNI referred itself to the Information Commissioner's Office to assess the lawfulness of a 'defensive operation' that collected and compared journalists' phone numbers against internal records. Angus McCullough KC's review found 21 phone data applications to identify journalists' sources, a secret register of over 1,000 journalists' phone numbers, four uses of directed surveillance involving journalists and one involving a lawyer, and unlawful retention of two journalists' data despite court orders.
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