Reprieve facilitated this Times op-ed written by former Director of Public Prosecutions Ken MacDonald. In the piece, Lord MacDonald argues that there need to be express limits on the types of crimes that may be authorised under the Government’s CHIS Bill, and notes that claims of gangs using ‘loyalty tests’ to expose undercover agents are more like a scenario from The Sopranos than the reality of running covert sources.
Read the op-ed in The Times here.