Child spies: use of juveniles as covert human intelligence sources
12 September 2018
The Joint Committee on Human Rights receives response from the Home Office regarding more details on the use of juveniles as covert human intelligence sources or ‘CHIS.'
- Letter from the Minister of State for Security and Economic Crime, regarding the use of juveniles as Covert Human Intelligence Sources (pdf 497KB)
- Letter from the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, regarding the use of juveniles as Covert Human Intelligence Sources, dated 24 August 2018 (pdf 407KB)
- Joint Committee on Human Rights
The Home Office Minister Ben Wallace MP has written a letter in response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights request for information on the use of children as covert human intelligence sources or ‘CHIS'.
We have also published a letter from Lord Fulford, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner.
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