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Mat Hayward - stock. adobe. com Two Northern Ireland journalists are seeking costs against the Police Service of Northern Ireland following delays in disclosure of critical evidence that led to two court hearings being abandoned, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal heard today....Lesen

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Belfast journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey were unlawfully placed under surveillance by two UK police forces, which spied on their phone communications and suspected confidential sources, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled today....Lesen

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When journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney were wrongly arrested in 2018, their case led to the discovery of a widespread police surveillance operation targeting journalists and lawyers in Northern Ireland. Here, McCaffrey recounts that experience and the developments since....Lesen

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Police in Northern Ireland have made 323 applications for communications data relating to journalists since 2011. The Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland disclosed the figures in a report commissioned by the Northern Ireland Policing Board. The report follows concerns over the use covert powers against journalists and lawyers following hearing by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal into allegations of unlawful police surveillance against two Northern Irish journalists. Police chief Jon Boutcher disclosed in a 48-page report that the PSNI had made 10 applications to use covert powers to identify journalist’s confidential sources between 2021 and March 2024. “The remainder of the applications did not seek to identify a journalist’s source and their profession may have been entirely unrelated to the request,” the report said....Lesen

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The chief constable of Northern Ireland has commissioned an ‘independent review’ of police surveillance of journalists, lawyers and civil society groups following allegations the police unlawfully obtained phone data of “trouble making” journalists. Jon Boutcher, chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland appointed Angus McCullogh, a special advocate, to review “matters of concern” following disclosures that police had used surveillance powers in an attempt to identify journalists’ confidential sources. His intervention came as the Investigatory Powers Tribunal investigates claims that the PSNI had unlawfully spied on journalists, Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey after they produced a film exposing the PSNI’s failure to investigate the murders of six innocent people killed by a paramilitary group in Loughinisland, County Down, in 1994. The PSNI accepted it had unlawfully monitored McCaffrey’s phone in 2013 to identify a source of information about police corruption, during a hearing of the Tribunal in February....Lesen

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Police in Northern Ireland have been criticised by members of Northern Ireland’s Policing Board for providing “utterly vague” responses to questions about its use of covert surveillance against lawyers and journalists. The policing board asked the Police Service of Northern Ireland to produce a report on its monitoring of journalists and lawyers after it emerged that the PSNI had carried out covert surveillance against two journalists who exposed police corruption. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) heard in February that journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey had been subject to police phone surveillance between 2011 and 2018 as part of police attempts to identify their confidential sources. The PSNI delivered a report on its use of covert surveillance to the Policing Board on 11 April 2024 six months after it was requested by the police watchdog. The report has not been made public despite calls from the human rights group Amnesty International and the Committee on the Administration of Justice for the PSNI to be held publicly accountable over its use of covert surveillance powers....Lesen

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The head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) told a policing watchdog today that there had been “no industrial application” of surveillance powers to monitor NGOs, journalists or lawyers. Chief constable of the PSNI, Jon Boutcher, was speaking after human rights groups wrote to Northern Ireland’s Policing Board to ask it to open an inquiry into the PSNI’s use of surveillance powers to collect data from journalists’ phones. The Policing Board has been waiting for more than six months for the PSNI to provide information on covert surveillance of journalists in Northern Ireland. The board’s request followed a complaint by journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over allegations they had been placed under police surveillance after producing a film exposing police collusion with a paramilitary group that murdered six innocent Catholics. The PSNI acknowledged at a hearing of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in London on 28 February that it had unlawfully collected communications data from McCaffrey’s phone in 2011. It also emerged that police had monitored journalists’ phones in 2013 and 2018...Lesen

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Durham Police and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) made “repeated and entirely unjustified” attempts to put two journalists under surveillance without seeking judicial authorization, a court was told. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) heard on Wednesday that Durham Constabulary and the PSNI engaged in a “covert strategy” to identify confidential informant that provided a leaked document used in documentary film that exposed collusion between the PSNI and a paramilitary group. Journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey were arrested by Durham Police and the PSNI in 2018, after they released a documentary, No stone unturned, exposing police failures to investigate the murder of six innocent people in Loughinisland, County Down by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Durham Police, working with the PSNI raided the journalist’s homes, the Film Production Company, Fine Point Films, and seized computers, notes, mobile phones and terabytes of journalistic data....Lesen

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