Home affairsLetter from Trevor Pearce QPM, Director General, Serious Organised Crime Agency, to the Chair of the Committee, 25 April 2012

SOCA REPORT: PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS: THE ROGUE ELEMENT OF THE PRIVATE INVESTIGATION INDUSTRY AND OTHERS UNLAWFULLY TRADING IN PERSONAL DATA

I am writing further to your letter of 30 March and our subsequent telephone conversation on 19 April in which we agreed the handling issues of the above “Confidential” report. I can confirm that the Home Office are sighted on these arrangements.

I have asked Martin Molloy, SOCA’s Deputy Director Prevention, to make contact with your office to make the necessary arrangements for you to view, in a controlled environment, a copy of the “Confidential” report together with a redacted “Not Protectively Marked” (NPM) version. We are happy for the “NPM” report to be shared with HASC colleagues to help them with their inquiry into the possible regulation of private investigators.